Dude on the right: "My tube socks were wrapped in the same plastic, at WalMart. Which were also from China!"
Girl on the left: "Hey! I found a penny!"
Posted on 02/13/2023 8:39:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Oooooh, plastic and other balloon material! What a great recovery!! Those pictures are so pathetic, they’re laughable.
holy cow- if that is true, then the world now sees our nation as run by the keystone cops-
Recycle ... for de Earf.
It looks like somebody’s laundry. No tickee No shirtee.
It should not destroy the payload other than shred it a bit or pierce it with high velocity frag.
If the missile struck the balloon itself and not the “cargo” I would expect most of the damage to the cargo would be from the impact on the water. If the cargo was in the frag envelope it would be analogous to shooting a DVD player at close range with a #6 shotgun round. You could still piece it back together and identify what it was.
They should have used a training round. I believe the block II sidewinder training round has an inert warhead and it is only 300k vs 400k in cost.
Found a use for the hovercraft!!!
Pretty much all the military forums concur that the warhead was not detonated (if present at all).
What happened with balloon 2? I’m not satisfied with “it floated down to south America don’t worry”- did I miss a “resolution”
One thing I’ve wondered is how this balloon (or balloons) has been transmitting its data back to the ChiComs. Since China is just a wee bit beyond direct line of sight, it must be transmitting either up to a satellite, or down to ? (spies on the ground, the cellular phone network, etc.). If it’s using a satellite, then that satellite would have to be in geosynchronous orbit over the U.S. or receiving transmissions from the balloon in bursts as it passes overhead. But I’m really wondering if it isn’t transmitting down to the cell network, and maybe using Chinese components in the 5g hardware to hide what it’s doing. Maybe that’s one of the unspoken reasons for wanting to keep ChiCom companies out of our 5g network. Maybe we already knew of a specific vulnerability related to intelligence gathering and secure transmission.
What are the chances of any of this government press release article being authentic?
Answer: 0.0
That first balloon is allegedly Chinese.
But the White House has denied that the others were aliens.
So they are definitely aliens.
Most likely beamed up to #CCP Satellite
Kirby: "There are things flying at high altitudes for various purposes … we think we're seeing more because we're looking for more."
Wow, I can't believe he said this out loud!
At 60,000 foot elevation the distance to the horizon (tangentially) would be about 300 miles away, so it was never without a good cell phone signal.
clear plastic
let’s build a greenhouse!
No
totally agree
if this were Anything, photos released to the public would be totally forbidden
OPSEC
sure looks like 6 mil clear plastic sold at Home Depot
5 sidewinder missiles used to shoot down 4 balloons. What’s the cost difference? Do our planes shoot bullets anymore?
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