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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 4:18 pm
It went from an ufo to a spy balloon to an airship to nothing in record time.
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 4:21 pm
Damn it man! I was hoping for something more exciting.
There's a reason I don't like to jump to a conclusion on 'news' stories till more info/intel comes in.
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 4:24 pm
If it'd stayed up another day it might have landed troops.
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 4:44 pm
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if it stayed up another day it would be landing troops over iceland. the jet stream travels fast
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 4:51 pm
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 5:05 pm
I guess that puts paid to the video in the OP.
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 5:27 pm
We can all go back to not thinking about the swarms of chinese spy sats in orbit.
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Went the way of murder hornets.
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 5:57 pm
Well, since nobody else mentioned it, here's the reference I always wanted to make about it:
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 6:17 pm
(February 4, 2023 at 3:21 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: 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.
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