Chinese spy balloon

[fshndoug]

I heard that the balloon was taking secret documents  from California to some guys house that goes by the name of Joe on the east coast.

[bfishn]

For perspective,
There are nearly 5,000 active satellites over someone's head 24/7 now. Of that number, almost 3,000 are ours, 500 are from China (per Statista). We track theirs, they track ours. It's assumed that the big 3 in space all have anti-satellite assets in place.

Lower and slower is better if you can get away with it. They just found out you can't. Any communications it might have attempted would have been jammed at the appropriate time, and for the duration of overflight. Recordings will be recovered. Lessons learned all around.

[jdmidwest]

9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

To me, it's about being forced to pay for things without consulting whether we feel it's necessary or not.   This country is allegedly in huge debt, but the things that got us into that debt......we had no say in the matter.      

Question it.....and it's all Classified and Confidential.    

If I started doing business like that, how long do ya reckon I'd last?

And... most of the debt is to the Chinese.

[Dutch]

2 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

And... most of the debt is to the Chinese.

I think Japan has passed them and has taken the number one spot.

[Ketchup]

12 hours ago, bfishn said:

For perspective,
There are nearly 5,000 active satellites over someone's head 24/7 now. Of that number, almost 3,000 are ours, 500 are from China (per Statista). We track theirs, they track ours. It's assumed that the big 3 in space all have anti-satellite assets in place.

Lower and slower is better if you can get away with it. They just found out you can't. Any communications it might have attempted would have been jammed at the appropriate time, and for the duration of overflight. Recordings will be recovered. Lessons learned all around.

But only 2 active balloons, well 1 currently.  The fact that it was allowed to cross straight over US military bases/closed camps is absurd. There were hundreds of chances over no msns land to have shot that thing down without zero chance of harming a person. Old Joe allowed it from the direct order from his boss, the chinese.  

[netboy]

Here is a pretty good summary of the whole event...

 

 

[Jerry Rapp]

19 minutes ago, netboy said:

Here is a pretty good summary of the whole event...

 

 

just curious, who put this together.  I haven't watched it yet, just skimmed it.  I don't think we will ever know any official story that is even near the truth.   News is fake no matter what the source.

 

[fishinwrench]

It was "a gross overreaction of the U.S. to shoot it down"...... But isn't it funny that they were sure to carefully maneuver it around Russian airspace?  

[ColdWaterFshr]

4 hours ago, Jerry Rapp said:

  News is fake no matter what the source.

 

And I would like to know your source for making such a ridiculous statement.  Hmmm, who could that be?

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Carry on.

[ColdWaterFshr]

8 hours ago, Ketchup said:

But only 2 active balloons, well 1 currently.  The fact that it was allowed to cross straight over US military bases/closed camps is absurd. There were hundreds of chances over no msns land to have shot that thing down without zero chance of harming a person. Old Joe allowed it from the direct order from his boss, the chinese.  

Another armchair expert watching Fox.  So really, 100's of chances?  Please tell us more.  Give me 5.