Zhang Meifang张美芳 @CGMeifangZhang China government official Perhaps #China was simply giving the #US a balloon. Much like one would give a child to make them feel better! #balloon #Saturdayvibe
Posted on 02/04/2023 11:47:11 AM PST by conservative98
The U.S. military has shot down the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.
While the balloon was off the coast of South Carolina, the balloon was shot down by the U.S. military on Saturday afternoon, according to Fox News sources
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Thanks for the heads up,
I just realized they confirmed having shot the other one too.
You don’t think with today’s micro technology and drone technology, that a balloon cannot be steered?
Love it!
“...Should have been shot down over the PACIFIC...”
Agree. It should never been allowed anywhere near sovereign U.S. airspace..
The Chinks get bent of shape whenever one of ships gets near a contested island...they know better.
But....but...IF that was done, the pedoPIGSTER and its vile spawn most likely wouldn’t get paid.... /s
Well hopefully they can recover what’s left of the wreckage and see if they were using this technology instead of the old hot air balloon in basket from the 1700s
But a great military victory for Joe Biden to tout his foreign policy gravitas.
How do they do this in real time? Meteorologists can barely get their forecast correct but balloon operators can figure out complex air current patterns from 60,000 feet above the earth and all air currents in between?
Well goodie, but your buddies are TOTAL IDIOTS for not doing this BEFORE trying to take over the world.
...and by the way, they’re competing the contract, so they won’t even achieve that rate until 2027, and then only if China and/or Russia are willing to sell us the raw materials we’ll need to build bombs to attack them with.
You’re wasting your time.
Idiocracy has come to FR.
How fast are hot air balloons? This thing was in Billings Montana less than 24 hours ago and just got shot down the coast of South Caroline, some 2000 miles away. That’s roughly 83 mph. Seems way too fast for what seems like a mostly stationary floating object.
Have you heard them say that that's what they were doing?
Satellites are 100 miles up. Now take those same cameras and use them at 60,000 feet.
It probably can. I was explaining how the up and down movement is used for steering and has been since the first days of balloons.
The same way people navigate canoes in turbulent rivers. They follow their nose - they navigate back and forth until they fund a useful current.
Should have shot it when it was approaching the Aleutians.
This is America gone incompetent.
Ain’t gonna end well.
Biden shoots down balloon after it seeds the atmosphere with new Covid virus and other bio weapons.
Pfizer celebrates.
So can I book a trip to fly to California from Florida by way of hot air balloon? How long will this trip take me?
Zhang Meifang张美芳 @CGMeifangZhang China government official Perhaps #China was simply giving the #US a balloon. Much like one would give a child to make them feel better! #balloon #Saturdayvibe
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MarkinVT
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Sleepy Joe is on the phone with Xi right now: “Yeah, send me $78 million for shooting it down over the Atlantic, not the Pacific. Hey, can I get an egg roll with that?”
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