Puncture the ballon with lasers...

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Why isn't this obvious?

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That would be ideal with literally anyone else as president, democrat or Republican. Biden is compromised though.

Here's the thing, if you shoot holes with a laser during the day, you won't even be able to see the lasers. Biden could claim the balloon just came down on it's own.

Added with edit...**Not that we should have to hide the fact we're defending our country**

Has Trump commneted as to what he would do?

Probably don’t want to reveal our military tech.

This balloon - among other things - is bait.

I don't think hitting a balloon with a laser is high tech in the least. Putting a hole in a super thin fabric is not hard, the target isn't moving fast - like a fighter jet or missile. I don't think you're right about this. I bet an ambitious grad student with access to a mid powered University research laser could bring this thing down.

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Probably don’t want to reveal our military tech.

This balloon - among other things - is bait.

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This post assumes we are legitimately concerned with problem solving on how to safely being it down.

Let me tell you, while I have 0 faith in our government competency, making a balloon come down doesn't make the list of things I doubt they can do.

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Put enough holes in it that it loses air slowly, comes down at a moderate pace

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take that shampoo bottle and stick it up my arse

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Here's the thing, if you shoot holes with a laser during the day, you won't even be able to see the lasers.

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Of course you can. They operate in the IR ranges. Cameras come with IR filters over the imaging sensor and lenses are coated with properties to filter out IR from reaching the sensor.

When the coatings are removed and the sensor does not have an IR filter, you can see lasers. Here is an example:

a single pulse of laser at 22,000 frames per second being rerouted in a lab