Chinese balloon

[Weyoun]

I see that all the usual terrible people think this is a great crisis, though the actual harm occurring isn’t very clear to me.

Weird how the far right wing in this country doesn’t trust the military, just like it doesn’t trust the FBI, but it does trust Putin.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Ground Stop announced at Myrtle Beach Airport due to Chinese Balloon

[tlynn78]

Montana: Big Spy Country

Shhh!

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Wilmington, Cape Fear and Myrtle Beach airports closed. Military Jets flying in circles in the air nearby

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

I can see it Southeast of me

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

We saw the shoot down

[Beebs52]

Was it from below or above?

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Shot it from below

[silverscreenselect]

There's a good chance they'll be able to recover most of the debris from the landing site and find out a lot more about what the balloon was doing and what technology was involved than if it crashed on solid ground.

[BackInTex]

We saw the shoot down

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

[Beebs52]

There's a good chance they'll be able to recover most of the debris from the landing site and find out a lot more about what the balloon was doing and what technology was involved than if it crashed on solid ground.

Hopefully. Conversely, if it had been shot down over land recovery would have been easier what with salt contamination and drifting etc

[silverscreenselect]

We saw the shoot down

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

You do realize they've had spy satellites in place for years (as do we) with much more equipment onboard than the balloon did. Since the balloon had no steering or redirection capacity, most of what it could have captured was shots of empty land.

[Weyoun]

We saw the shoot down

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

Wank, wank. I am sure the balloon captured VERY CRITICAL info about Montana.

[Beebs52]

We saw the shoot down

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

You do realize they've had spy satellites in place for years (as do we) with much more equipment onboard than the balloon did. Since the balloon had no steering or redirection capacity, most of what it could have captured was shots of empty land.

There were reports that it was steered.

[Beebs52]

We saw the shoot down

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

Wank, wank. I am sure the balloon captured VERY CRITICAL info about Montana.

Are you that oblivious?

[tlynn78]

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

Wank, wank. I am sure the balloon captured VERY CRITICAL info about Montana.

Are you that oblivious?

Lol!

Just another example of the lengths some will go to in order to preserve their fragile narrative.

[tlynn78]

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

You do realize they've had spy satellites in place for years (as do we) with much more equipment onboard than the balloon did. Since the balloon had no steering or redirection capacity, most of what it could have captured was shots of empty land.

There were reports that it was steered.

C'mon, man. It left mainland China, somehow (fickle winds!!) Completely missed Russian airspace, just happened to wander over some of our missile silo locations, before heading out to sea.

I'm just wondering what story we're being distracted from this time.

[Spock]

We saw the shoot down

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

You do realize they've had spy satellites in place for years (as do we) with much more equipment onboard than the balloon did. Since the balloon had no steering or redirection capacity, most of what it could have captured was shots of empty land.

I figured you would be dismissive of the whole thing-but I remember 21 and a half years ago-just prior to 9/11, when the Chinese shot down our spy plane and you were all over the Bush Admin for provocations etc etc.

You might not be a paid Chinese agent-but you ALWAYS take their corner. Out of ideological sympathies I presume.

Interesting that you argue that it is not steerable when most reports indicate otherwise.

You might call it empty land-(Taking the Chinese corner again)-thus deflecting attention away from Malmstrom AFB in the center of the state-Great Falls area.

[Weyoun]

After it had completed it's intelligence gathering mission. I'm sure whatever it captured it has already transmitted back to home base.

Thankfully the Bermuda Triangle will remain a mystery to the Chinese.

Wank, wank. I am sure the balloon captured VERY CRITICAL info about Montana.

Are you that oblivious?

Is there some big secret that they are missile silo there? I mean some of them are even on private property. I mean we’re talking about Cold War locations. Who are you kidding?

[Beebs52]

Wank, wank. I am sure the balloon captured VERY CRITICAL info about Montana.

Are you that oblivious?

Is there some big secret that they are missile silo there? I mean some of them are even on private property. I mean we’re talking about Cold War locations. Who are you kidding?

What's your point? No big deal?

[silverscreenselect]

You might not be a paid Chinese agent-but you ALWAYS take their corner. Out of ideological sympathies I presume.

That's about what I'd expect from you.

Biden made a decision based on the risk to people below, even those in red states through which the balloon traveled most of the way. As soon as it got over the water, it went down. If they had shot the balloon down over land and it hit somebody, you'd have been blaming Biden for that.

There have already been consequences for the Chinese. Sec of State Blinken canceled a trip to China that the Chinese wanted. And we don't know what has gone on in private with the Chinese.

And talking about taking the Chinese side is hilarious coming from someone who was practically fellating Vladimir Putin prior to the invasion of Ukraine.

[Beebs52]

Thanks, SSS, for ignoring my comments.

[Spock]

SSS>>>"You do realize they've had spy satellites in place for years (as do we) with much more equipment onboard than the balloon did. Since the balloon had no steering or redirection capacity, most of what it could have captured was shots of empty land.<<<<

I love that you have enough knowledge of the spy capability of various platforms to absolutely know for sure that there are no advantages to a platform that can just hang around an area for awhile instead of just zipping by hundreds of miles in the sky.

I wonder after it randomly floated near Malmstrom AFB and then headed southeast to Missouri, I wonder if it just happened to randomly fly anywhere near Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, SD.

Just empty lands to you-but pretty important in the strategic picture.

[silverscreenselect]

I love that you have enough knowledge of the spy capability of various platforms to absolutely know for sure that there are no advantages to a platform that can just hang around an area for awhile instead of just zipping by hundreds of miles in the sky.

I don't know much about the spy capability of various platforms. But our military is going to know a lot more after they fish the remains of the balloon out of the ocean than if it had crashed on top of T-Girl's bathroom.

[Spock]

#1-SSS>>>"You do realize they've had spy satellites in place for years (as do we) with much more equipment onboard than the balloon did.">>>

#2-Also SSS-later>>>"I don't know much about the spy capability of various platforms But our military is going to know a lot more after they fish the remains of the balloon out of the ocean than if it had crashed on top of T-Girl's bathroom."<<<

OK-are you the same person
#1-presents as a well-qualified expert in remote sensing and spying technology.

#2-Presents as "Gee, gosh golly-IDK much-but the experts will handle it" and throws in a gratuitous slap at T-Girl.

To #1. A question I have always wondered-seriously
If satellites are so great and cover everything-explain how come they could never tell us what happened to Malaysian Air 370?