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Old 02-19-2023, 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by MrLonzo View Post
My questions come from the limited knowledge yet wondering child inside me, so as a way of closing out this thread which I started, I’d like to thank those who contributed to the edification process, including the links to similar discussions which I missed before posting – and sorry for the redundancy. My take away is that the military might of the U.S., despite its $900B/year budget, has failed to find an adequate defense of high altitude objects. Even with the ability to “read a license plate from a satellite”, it’s unable to determine the identity, origin, or purpose of such an object,
Perhaps the "Made in China" label was on the bottom next to the "Chinese weather service" tag?


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and incapable of bringing it down safely in a salvageable way. ...
And we still haven't figure out how to drop something from 8 - 12 MILES up without it breaking when it lands. Did we not learn anything from those high school egg-dropping chalanges?
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