The Balloon

[Rev. Rye]

All for an escaped weather balloon.  With this level of manufactured bullshit you'd think there weren't thousands of these released and lost every day or somethin.

It's worth noting that the China Daily newspaper (the PRC's official newspaper) says "To spy on the US with a balloon, one must both fall far behind to use a 1940s technology and be advanced enough to control its flight across the ocean. Those fabricating the lie are only exposing their ignorance."

And given that, as far as I can tell, such unmanned balloons are virtually impossible to control, the PRC actually has a point here.