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The Balloon
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 1:36 pm
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Maybe they should call this guy.

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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 2:04 pm
(February 4, 2023 at 1:33 pm)Fireball Wrote: ^  Hehe I'd rather balloons than cyberspace.

I don’t think we have the option.

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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 2:06 pm (This post was last modified: February 4, 2023 at 2:06 pm by Fake Messiah.)
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 2:17 pm
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 2:52 pm (This post was last modified: February 4, 2023 at 3:17 pm by Anomalocaris.)
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 3:21 pm (This post was last modified: February 4, 2023 at 3:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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.
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 3:23 pm (This post was last modified: February 4, 2023 at 3:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 4, 2023 at 11:29 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(February 3, 2023 at 11:38 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: [...] the army can not bring it down because it is too high up, and, being a balloon, you can not lock rockets on it.

1) The Air Force is responsible for defending American air space. The Army wouldn't be tasked with bringing it down except in a tactical- or operational-level combat.

2) You can certainly lock missiles onto a balloon. The gondola on this one will return usable radar image, and I'd be willing to bet it throws a sharp infrared gradient in the cold air that high.

3) I'd bet the AMRAAM would be able to hit it if fired inside a good envelope, i.e. supersonic climb.

Already got buzzed by f22s, it's not impossible to hit, they decided not to take the shot. Because weather balloon, lol.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 3:58 pm
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RE: The Balloon
February 4, 2023 at 4:15 pm
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.

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