- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.
I don’t care what it was. Keep your cheap balloons out of my air space.
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Can Americans keep their drones out of other sovereign nations’ airspace? Seems pretty easy to just stop flying them unlike a weather balloon getting blown off course.
No.
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Nice selfie.
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Ah, the “I know what you are but what am I?” defense. Used by emeritus professors the world over.
Learned it from Pee Wee Herman PhD.
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The Chinese also scan America’s land with lasers from space satellites btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idKZTWrtgl0
Chinese space spy satellites detectable from the ground? Sounds cheap to me.
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that’s fine, just don’t let that feed into a belief that china wants to destroy the world
Oh, they might want to. They might not. They just don’t have the military to do so.
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do you assume the us military does
There’s no military in the world that’s large enough for global domination. But America’s is the largest and best.
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I don’t think the balloon was cheap, as balloons go, making the military response all the more wasteful.
You’re right. The balloon was probably the most expensive part. The stuff attached to the balloon was made of pure Chineseium.
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Didn’t quite catch that
“Sure I got scared by obvious propaganda, but actually I did it on purpose and it’s patriotic.”
Scared by Chinese junk? Nah, blowing it up with a missle was just cool.
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Burning $400k on blowing up a weather bslloon is an extremely not-scared thing to celebrate.
“You can fill a balloon full of bullet holes, and it’s going to stay at altitude,” David Deptula, a retired Air Force lieutenant general and fighter pilot, tells the Post. The air pressure that high up doesn’t allow helium to freely escape through small holes, even if fighter jets flying by at hundreds of miles per hour can riddle the near-stationary balloon with bullets.
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