Chinese Balloon

[BmillsSkier]

In all fairness, most things are better if you remove the snowboarder.

[AK47bp]

In all fairness, most things are better if you remove the snowboarder.

That’s Gold.

[sb]

[Vt-Freeheel]

[baron]

this story makes me yearn for a fresh episodes of Monty Python/ Golden Age of Ballooning

[Cono Este]

https://www.tiktok.com/@tomgreen/vid...85920288753194

[BmillsSkier]

Who the fuck posts up a tiktok link in a thread about Chinese spying?

Who do you work for?

[MagnificentUnicorn]

https://www.tiktok.com/@tomgreen/vid...85920288753194

I always thought you’d have an accent


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[From_the_NEK]

[frorider]

“We tend to mirror-image when we look at threats, so we are blinded by our own technology,” a former Pentagon official and aerospace executive told me. The U.S. military threatens foreign adversaries mainly with missiles and aircraft, so those are the kinds of threats our early-warning sensors are programmed to look for. (If a Chinese airplane had flown across American borders, U.S. jet fighters would have confronted it—escorting it out of our airspace or down to an airfield, or taken deadlier action, if necessary—within minutes.)

After the sighting last week of the object over Alaska, Montana, and points west, which was followed by clear evidence that it was a spy balloon (not a weather balloon, as Chinese spokesmen initially claimed), NORAD re-set its filters to include the telltale signs of spy balloons—mainly their speed, shape, and altitude. As a result, sensors have started seeing similar items and alerting their commanders, who in turn have alerted the commander-in-chief, President Biden.

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an analysis in the coming weeks of the three most recent shootdowns might indicate that they weren’t spy balloons at all; they might have just been space junk. NORAD might have re-set its filters a bit too broadly.

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[ötzi]

^^ well they probably weren't space junk at 20,000-40,000 feet, but yeah, junk of some sort is pretty likely I'd think.

[highangle]

Who the fuck posts up a tiktok link in a thread about Chinese spying? Who do you work for?

Vodka

[mcphee]

https://www.tiktok.com/@tomgreen/vid...85920288753194

Daddy, would you like some sausage?

[bennymac]

the same people that shouted "shoot it down already!" were the same people shouting "why did we spend money shooting them down?" and are now shouting "this is all just a manufactured distraction!"

Next on the list, when the balloons can't be found, will be "what? hurry up and find them why can't we find them! I want them found"

[Timberridge]

I'm guessing we would have a hard time winning a balloon war due to the prevailing winds?

[The AD]

the same people that shouted "shoot it down already!" were the same people shouting "why did we spend money shooting them down?" and are now shouting "this is all just a manufactured distraction!"

Next on the list, when the balloons can't be found, will be "what? hurry up and find them why can't we find them! I want them found"

I actually saw someone say that Adam Schiff is behind it. Not even kidding.

[bennymac]

I saw someone say that these balloons are how covid variants got sent over from China

[Timberridge]

Seeing someone say makes me think its lip reading which is subject to misinterpretation.

[Core Shot]

Who the fuck posts up a tiktok link in a thread about Chinese spying?

Who do you work for?

Henceforth his user name is China Este

[JimmyCarter]

the same people that shouted "shoot it down already!" were the same people shouting "why did we spend money shooting them down?" and are now shouting "this is all just a manufactured distraction!"

Next on the list, when the balloons can't be found, will be "what? hurry up and find them why can't we find them! I want them found"

I get that these people are all just slack jawed yokels as far as you’re concerned, but
1) we should take them down;
2) maybe sidewinders aren’t the most cost effective way of doing it; and,
3) maybe it’s a distraction

are not contradictory positions, and do have some basis in historical fact.

[dunfree]

I get that these people are all just slack jawed yokels as far as you’re concerned, but
1) we should take them down;
2) maybe sidewinders aren’t the most cost effective way of doing it; and,
3) maybe it’s a distraction

are not contradictory positions, and do have some basis in historical fact.

man, what if canada tried to shoot down a balloon and it took days to sink?

nevernind, contrarian carter is here to say that didn’t happen.

and anyone bitching about the cost of a missile is a moron.

[Cisco Kid]

Slack jawed yokels are who I seek for advice in all of my important life decisions. Sure

[JimmyCarter]

man, what if canada tried to shoot down a balloon and it took days to sink?

nevernind, contrarian carter is here to say that didn’t happen.

and anyone bitching about the cost of a missile is a moron.

What contrarian position did I take?

[bennymac]

I get that these people are all just slack jawed yokels as far as you’re concerned, but
1) we should take them down;
2) maybe sidewinders aren’t the most cost effective way of doing it; and,
3) maybe it’s a distraction

are not contradictory positions, and do have some basis in historical fact.

who said they were slack jawed yokels? Not me. So yeah - you don't actually "get it". Vibes.

Hypocrites? Sure. Morons? Some of them. Military and foreign affairs experts? I bet 99% of them literally couldn't find China on a map or name a Chinese city.

We can talk "maybes" all day. Maybe sidewinders aren't the right choice. Maybe they are. You know who doesn't have a fucking clue about that decision? Me. And you.

So fuck off. I can call out the people simultaneously making definitive and contradictory statements while myself keeping an open mind.

Sorry you can't grasp that - but I suspect you can and you just saw an opening for more transparent self righteous talk. I'll keep an open mind to other possibilities though. Take credit for that if you need the boost.

[JimmyCarter]

Slack jawed yokels are who I seek for advice from in all of my important life decisions. Sure

Anyone who has read your anecdotes already knew this.