Chinese Balloon

[SumJongGuy]

What will martian invasion mean for the Dad and Daughter events?

[dunfree]

What will martian invasion mean for the Dad and Daughter events?

they never said anything about alien tentacle sex

[BmillsSkier]

Holy shit, that Waffle House cook is fucking gangster.

Not that I’m surprised.

[The AD]

Balloon releases are the dumbest shit ever. If I popped 100 balloons and threw them on the ground I’d get a ticket for littering. But if they float up before they fall down, it’s okay.

Agreed. Can't fathom the level of idiocy that thinks this is okay. How about remembering someone's life without sending a bunch of trash into the sky?

[BmillsSkier]

Agreed. Can't fathom the level of idiocy that thinks this is okay. How about remembering someone's life without sending a bunch of trash into the sky?

Why do you hate the recently departed so much?

[Mazderati]

A handbook may be more useful.

[BmillsSkier]

A handbook may be more useful.

Lol

[evdog]

Balloon releases are the dumbest shit ever. If I popped 100 balloons and threw them on the ground I’d get a ticket for littering. But if they float up before they fall down, it’s okay.

Fully agree. I pick up a ton of those each year on bike rides in some pretty remote backcountry places. The only thing more obnoxious IMO is all the trash and spent shells left behind at target shooting areas.

[wkd-rdr]

Video of how it was discovered.

https://twitter.com/HeroDisposable1/...CdQQYYeHNau_dg

[Cono Este]

I’m going to ask everyone from referring to these ufo’s as “Chinese balloons”. Could lead to more hate crimes.

We’re better than that.

[m2711c]

Fuck you.



fact.

[Cono Este]

Fuck you.



fact.

No apology necessary.

It’s a “civil weather ballon”. Like it was a bat flu.

[AlpiNord]

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[k2skier112]

I’m going to ask everyone from referring to these ufo’s as “Chinese balloons”. Could lead to more hate crimes.

We’re better than that.

assholes like you make life a little shittier for everyone else

[sb]

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Cheeky bastards!

No wonder the price of lumber is so high.

[The AD]

Interesting article in the New York Times this morning about how a scientist in China has been talking about his airship surveillance program for several years:

In 2019, years before a hulking high-altitude Chinese balloon floated across the United States and caused widespread alarm, one of China’s top aeronautics scientists made a proud announcement that received little attention back then: His team had launched an airship more than 60,000 feet into the air and sent it sailing around most of the globe, including across North America.

The scientist, Wu Zhe, told a state-run news outlet at the time that the “Cloud Chaser” airship was a milestone in his vision of populating the upper reaches of the earth’s atmosphere with steerable balloons that could be used to provide early warnings of natural disasters, monitor pollution or carry out airborne surveillance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/w...y-balloon.html

Seems like this is a case of something being hidden in plain sight.

Here's the other question: are the Chinese sort of sending the kitchen sink into the air just to see which ones we detect? They could be probing the limits of our detection capability.

[Cono Este]

assholes like you make life a little shittier for everyone else

That’s what I say. It’s not like these balloons have killed a million Americans.

President to speak on UFO’s

[BmillsSkier]

Interesting article in the New York Times this morning about how a scientist in China has been talking about his airship surveillance program for several years:


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/w...y-balloon.html

Seems like this is a case of something being hidden in plain sight.

Here's the other question: are the Chinese sort of sending the kitchen sink into the air just to see which ones we detect? They could be probing the limits of our detection capability.

Ignoring the polyass shit show some people are trying to drag this otherwise humorous thread into, from my understanding this is how most countries' intelligence operates, probe here and there and see what, if any, response it elicits. Someone with more M.I. knowledge than me can chime in to tell me I'm wrong (which I very well could be).

[MontuckyFried]

Anyway. Read the Lake Huron object was Octagon shaped with tentacles hanging off.

I think we are getting trolled.

That would be absolutely hilarious if that's all the follow-up balloons were. Now that everyone's on high alert about it all, I can imagine a bunch of pranksters releasing all manner of balloons all over the country. Then watch as they make national/global news and the government spends millions on popping them them with high tech munitions.

[Iowagriz]

see if this link works. Hot Air Balloon in the Flathead Valley (if I remember correctly), sign dangling off it stating "not a spy balloon". Makes sense for the Flathead as locals would likely be jonesing for a reason to shoot something from the sky.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cof8w..._web_copy_link

[SumJongGuy]

I’m going to ask everyone from referring to these ufo’s as “Chinese balloons”. Could lead to more hate crimes.

We’re better than that.

OK Boomer

SNL nailed it..

[Ted Striker]

The only thing more obnoxious IMO is all the trash and spent shells left behind at target shooting areas.

This x1000

[LHutz Esq]

see if this link works. Hot Air Balloon in the Flathead Valley (if I remember correctly), sign dangling off it stating "not a spy balloon". Makes sense for the Flathead as locals would likely be jonesing for a reason to shoot something from the sky.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cof8w..._web_copy_link

That's exactly what the Chinese would do to hide their spy balloon!

[Ted Striker]

That's exactly what the Chinese would do to hide their spy balloon!

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[Nobody Famous]

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The Chinese must be laughing their asses off on how successful their balloon was.