[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Tvflguy

Totally agree. A feckless “response” by USA. How dare we simply allow China to do this? Now I hear there is one entering Canadian airspace.

What if this craft is releasing a variant of Covid or worse. Countless what if’s. Even if it’s simply a spy craft- why simply allow it to be up there???

What if WE released something like this into China???

The inaction speaks volumes, I’m embarrassed as a USA citizen.

If they released Covid from the spy balloon, then CV would drift upward into the upper atmosphere and be killed by the same CO2 that is causing increased Global Warming.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by JGibson

No worries it's just stationed over a area that we have nukes.

Nothing to see here says Press Secretary they're just air dropping the 10%.

Funny how foreign countries are getting so bold these days, I wonder why?

With respect to sentence 2 ......does that mean that they are "air dropping" the upper 10% of elites from the US or China?

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

The government needs to declare a balloon hunting season starting today. Bubba and his buddy Billyray Joebob Johnboy will rent a Piper Cub and blow the balloon out of the sky. It'll attract even more hunters if there is a bounty on it. Think about it, a balloon skin rug.

That would be a great trophy. I wonder if my trusty 30-06 can go that high. Of course, I will wait until it is over the Atlantic. I took a hunter safety course once.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

I believe that i heard on TV that they could be steered ......somehow?

"Steering" is a stretch. Jet streams (which this thing was apparently taking advantage of) flow generally west to east but they are notoriously fickle, sometimes changing direction from east to west, to north to south. If you're depending on a jet stream to get you to, say, Oklahoma, you might end up over Iowa instead.

Balloons can also take advantage of the differing directions of winds aloft. A south wind at 3,000' might be a west wind at, say, 6,000'. Differing directions and different wind speeds at various altitudes. Balloon pilots have cross-country competitions that utilize this, but again it is a notoriously INaccurate way to get from point A to point B.

[blueash]

The Commander in Chief when advised of this balloon asked for opinions from the military and intelligence services, and instead of saying he knows more about balloons than anyone else, actually listened to the experts who advised him that the risk of the Chinese getting any useful information was extremely low and the danger to Americans from shooting it down was enough of a mitigating factor to just let it float.

And as soon as it cleared the coast, see my earlier post, and the coast guard and FAA etc were able to stop air and ship traffic, we shot it down and it landed in fairly shallow water.

Nothing feckless about any of that. In fact it sounds like the government agencies worked together to formulate a plan and executed it well. But some people need to be unhappy whether it is wearing a brown suit or listening to experts who are, you know, experts unlike some others.

[New Englander]

Originally Posted by Byte1

I heard it through the grapevine that they are looking for a landing site in Biden's Delaware resident back yard. They are here by Hunter's invitation. He wants to show them his father's Corvette.

This is the best reply so far!

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Aces4

It may be headed to a state near you, Florida. I’ve looked at the current path.

Yes, its College grads from China parachuting down to Disney World.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by mtdjed

Consider what is being said. A balloon the size of 3 buses with no visible evidence of propulsion, being able to guide itself across the country. No motors, no fuel and claimed to be able defy the jet stream. If that is true, there is some technology at play that would certainly be worth getting for a closer look.

Our military certainly has capability to observe the balloon, heat signature, movements verse wind direction. They could easily determine difference from weather balloons.

Bound to be more than we are being told.

Yes, it is an anti-gravity, reverse Coriolis effect, proton beam guidance.

[Worldseries27]

Originally Posted by worldseries27

not if it's practice for carrying future mirv'd mini nuke warheads whose sole purpose would be to damage the top of the silos.
No silo missile exit no launch, effectively eliminating 1/3 of our nuclear triad.
Think, they wouldn't need a icbm, a first strike that could launch and destroy our land based missiles in seconds not 35 minutes and not detectable from our satellites. A stand must be made.

have we forgotten the lessons of pearl harbor?

[I'm Popeye!]

Originally Posted by Keefelane66

The last administration obtained how many patents from China and actually had personal bank accounts there

What does your Political comment have to do with this topic?

[dewilson58]

A lot of paranoia here.

[Aces4]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Yes, its College grads from China parachuting down to Disney World.

Yup, if you’re looking for a laugh…. sadly, I think I’ll have the last one.

[daniel200]

It was searching for authentic Chinese takeout. As everyone knows here, that is a difficult assignment.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by daniel200

It was searching for authentic Chinese takeout. As everyone knows here, that is a difficult assignment.

It should have hung over San Francisco, Los Angeles and NYC.

[JRcorvette]

Just Amazon’s new home food delivery service!