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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84093909 United States 02/03/2023 08:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Busting That Chinese Spy Balloon Is Harder Than You Think (Updated) Quoting: Os76* UPDATE 9:30am 3rd Feb: China is now claiming that the balloon is "a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes" and that it has "eviated far from its planned course." Which is exactly the same excuse that the U.S. gave for the 'weather balloons' in its spying program in the 1950s. [link to www.forbes.com (secure)] The military needs to build a boomerang drone that can be fired from a high altitude aircraft to slice through something like this, and then once it has contacted the target, guided to a safe landing spot. DirecTV/ATT used to carry 2 Weather channels. They removed Accuweather a year or two ago. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81285582 United States 02/03/2023 08:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The US Military and the Federal Government doesn't want to shoot the Chinese balloon down because their orders come from the CCP. Think about it. The US government now answers to China, not the American people and we as citizens are nothing but an embarrassment to those who died founding and protecting this nation. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79924226 United States 02/03/2023 08:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just shoot a hole in the balloon and it will gently touch down and then you can study it. fucking morons think too much. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 84205478 Right!... Wasn't there some guy that parachuted off a balloon from 120,000 ft?... Dressed in astronaut gear and he landed right where the ground crew was stationed?... Was it sponsored by Red Bull?... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84009617 02/03/2023 08:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | . Quoting: wisconsin human ... and china didn't file a FLIGHT PLAN as it went accross the usa???? ... what flight do you know can do that? ... there was a guy some years back in ohio who was ticketed because he didn't file a flight plan for his balloon and lawn chair!!! ... . ... as soon as that sucker crossed into usa airspace it should have been shot down!!! ... . ... shows how much of a bitch of china this administration is!!!! ... . Yep, an absolute joke! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 83137146 United States 02/03/2023 08:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe the thing is listening , tracking and hacking everybodys phones or everyone with tic tok just to see where we all are physically instead of by nearest phone tower ?Or maybe it's just a weather balloon that 'accidentally' flew off course just to see if we would flinch and break the bond of peace. Whatever it is, we have to treat it like a chess move not a checkers move. Whatever this thing is, we are being tested, watched, probed ... like Taiwan with the Air force |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80054570 Australia 02/03/2023 08:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bits get carried off into different layers going different directions at different speeds. Quoting: Zell Xan Some of that stuff will drop like rocks while other bits will fall like sheets of cloth or plastic. Doesn't a feather fall at the same speed as a brick? all objects free fall at the same rate regardless of their mass. Because the 9.8 N/kg gravitational field at Earth's surface causes a 9.8 m/s/s acceleration of any object placed there, we often call this ratio the acceleration of gravity. ^This is true, in a vacuum^ Not in atmosphere. correct at least you can debunk the flat earth people. who knows n0thing. |
DuckHunter60
User ID: 85058630 United States 02/03/2023 08:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1 hole = slow leak and decent Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80266695 Keep the payload Why is this so hard to comprehend It's Friday. Milly and friends have their dresses on and all lubed up for an evening of whatever the fuck is they do. It's past Joe's bedtime, and Kamala is busy doing as little as she can. They aint got time for this shit. |
Endtimewatchman10
(OP) User ID: 76376503 United States 02/03/2023 08:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Think about it. You don't know WHAT is on that balloon. That's why you don't just shoot it down. That thing is traveling over the bread basket of America right now. Do you remember the seeds that were mysteriously being sent to people from china a couple years ago and nobody knew what the seeds were or why they were sent to them ? Local news reports told people not to plant them. Maybe it was a mistaken weather balloon, or maybe it was a spy device, or maybe it was something else. You see everyone tends to think in terms of polar opposites, two choices ... but life isn't like that, deception is. Best advice I could give anyone in any situation is always look for or wait for a 3rd choice. What if that thing is a trojan horse loaded with blight spores figuring we would blow it up. The spores would spread out all over our agriculture, carried by the wind for far more than 400 miles, I'm sure. Spores are tiny, inactive life forms that are extremely durable and heat resistant. The first thing you want to do is throw your last resort at it ? That is just stupid, I'm sorry, you're not thinking, you're reacting and that puts the other guy in control... it sets you up for a trap ... you're too predictable. Even if it's releasing spores or a biological agent on its own, it would be them who did it, not us. I don't need to remind anyone of the recent biological hazard that was released out of that country, or if it was just a player in the propaganda war to bring about the real problem being the jabs, china was still at the center. And you want to blow it out of the sky and disperse whatever its contents are all over the continental US ? ... and be outraged and disappointed that we don't react violently to a provocation ? Oh I'm so disappointed in America... what have we become ... if it were me ... etc etc etc. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83137146 Maybe the thing is listening , tracking and hacking everybodys phones or everyone with tic tok just to see where we all are physically instead of by nearest phone tower ?Or maybe it's just a weather balloon that 'accidentally' flew off course just to see if we would flinch and break the bond of peace. Whatever it is, we have to treat it like a chess move not a checkers move. Whatever this thing is, we are being tested, watched, probed ... like Taiwan with the Air force Endtimewatchman1 |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80413288 Singapore 02/03/2023 08:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No, if Air Force used an exploding warhead on this, it would be shredded into a million pieces and land everywhere. Further, a huge amount of airspace would have to be closed for hours until all the debris settled out. Now imagine shutting down all flights in central and downwind eastern US for hours while whatever payload and pieces made out if we don’t know what falls to the ground. Still want to shoot it down just for shits and grins? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 65329080 Canada 02/03/2023 08:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | . Quoting: wisconsin human ... and china didn't file a FLIGHT PLAN as it went accross the usa???? ... what flight do you know can do that? ... there was a guy some years back in ohio who was ticketed because he didn't file a flight plan for his balloon and lawn chair!!! ... . ... as soon as that sucker crossed into usa airspace it should have been shot down!!! ... . ... shows how much of a bitch of china this administration is!!!! ... . Says the one send satellites over every single nation include China. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73112757 United States 02/03/2023 10:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The DOD when it communicates to we the people is only lies. Not one lick of truth. They whoever they are have disdain for we the people. They have been caught red handed over and over again. They have run operations that have killed innocent american lives right here in the land of the free. Then saying they wont shoot it down because of debris scattering 400 sq miles is such a bad lie. You know and I know that they tracked this thing from the moment it left Chinese airspace and they knew where it was headed. When it crossed over the Aleutian islands USA territory they easily could have shot it down then and in normal times they would have but these are not normal times. They let this thing float into the lower 48 and they are now letting cross the entire country. That makes no sense. China is not our friend and the DOD knows that and that is why it should have been shot down a long time ago. During the cold war this shit would never have happened. So the lying govt/mil/dod/deepstate is up to something and its probably not good for the people on the ground. |
Xeven
User ID: 84269448 United States 02/03/2023 10:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You could just put holes in ballon and it will drop in one piece. Jesh. I guess Generaly Milley is sorting his dresses today? I reserve the right to declare my comments and posts as satire. Nothing I post should be considered or interpreted as advocacy for illegal activity. My comments are designed to inspire critical political thinking. I only mean half of what I say and only say half of what I mean. |
SomeguyinUS
User ID: 84352776 United States 02/03/2023 10:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Pull it down with a giant magnet. DUH! Than all the debris would be pulled to one spot. “The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.” Joseph Fouche "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy" Red Green |