BREAKING: China responds to US claims that it is flying a spy balloon over Montana. | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 85195867 United States 02/03/2023 08:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So I went into Unreal Engine and mocked this thing up to scale. Quoting: BFD So here is a sphere 40m in diameter at 62,000 ft with a 1000mm lens. Seems to check out. [imgur] [link to imgur.com (secure)] [/imgur] [imgur] [link to imgur.com (secure)] [/imgur] [imgur] [link to imgur.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 83827444 United States 02/03/2023 08:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's probably some surveillance balloon monitoring the border I said I can traffic people or drugs or something again in the US was looking the other way until it was discovered. Now they have to act like it wasn't theirs. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75483184 Canada 02/03/2023 08:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A superpower who has been watching every square inch of the US for years, around the clock, with million MP cameras on satellites that can actually see full spectrum and read the time on your watch in HD, suddenly decide to DRIFT A BALLOON over Norad Land - Home of air superiority Why? The SAT fleet is all in for oil change? Kinda risky no??? Some slow ass, highly visible, hard to control, not very manoeuvrable, antiquated goofball tech drifting over Norad Land Give your head a shake sister. It's DOD. You are going to war againt China in 2025. Don't take the bait. Jesus. obviously Norad is not anymore the "Home of Air Superiority" lol It's DOD idiot and that's why it's there. take a booster. NORAD can demonstrably track a duck. Air superiority is the ability to shoot down anything this side of heaven, and those machines takes off from runways right here, so, why is that balloon there dummy? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 68745322 United States 02/03/2023 08:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80317847 Austria 02/03/2023 08:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's probably some surveillance balloon monitoring the border I said I can traffic people or drugs or something again in the US was looking the other way until it was discovered. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83827444 Now they have to act like it wasn't theirs. It is quite big to not be discovered, your train of thoughts has been derailed. Also China was clear, it is not theirs. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 85162355 Canada 02/03/2023 08:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | its just the dumbest thing ever, lets fly a balloon over the USA with a chineese text on the balloon, i mean common, if it would be a "SPY" balloon it would not bear big chineese text on it first, second they would not even USE a balloon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83810010 and then again, who says its a chineese balloon, just ooh we see chineese text on it so it must be chineese? i call it BS just like the rest of every show the Biden Regime and the US government tries to pull each time. There is no text or logo on that balloon that I saw... prove me wrong and post a picture otherwise... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80317847 Austria 02/03/2023 08:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's probably some surveillance balloon monitoring the border I said I can traffic people or drugs or something again in the US was looking the other way until it was discovered. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83827444 Now they have to act like it wasn't theirs. Yep. It belongs to the US government Neither to them, you simply cannot miss it, suddenly to appear and to belong to the US government, it is full of holes this assumption. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80317847 Austria 02/03/2023 08:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | its just the dumbest thing ever, lets fly a balloon over the USA with a chineese text on the balloon, i mean common, if it would be a "SPY" balloon it would not bear big chineese text on it first, second they would not even USE a balloon. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83810010 and then again, who says its a chineese balloon, just ooh we see chineese text on it so it must be chineese? i call it BS just like the rest of every show the Biden Regime and the US government tries to pull each time. There is no text or logo on that balloon that I saw... prove me wrong and post a picture otherwise... for what purpose? If there was a logo or text, would anything change? |
BFD
(OP) User ID: 84295572 United States 02/03/2023 08:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So I went into Unreal Engine and mocked this thing up to scale. Quoting: BFD So here is a sphere 40m in diameter at 62,000 ft with a 1000mm lens. Seems to check out. https://imgur.com/a/SfURcij https://imgur.com/a/hh1y3nR https://imgur.com/a/bBgZI4t INFJ/Conservative Artist |
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LittleMe
I don’t want flowers when I die… User ID: 83104412 United States 02/03/2023 08:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hmmmmm … let’s make a Winnie the Pooh balloon parade… and at the end we release them… |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84004993 United States 02/03/2023 08:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's a domestic operation to foment anger against the yellows for a war that's penned for 2025 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75483184 They have 499 "KNOWN" satellites, some of which can read the time on your wrist watch. Are they all in the shop for oil and filter change? Why some goofy balloon?? Kind of risky huh???? This is NORAD land. HOME of air superiority. We can demonstrably track a duck with this gear. We are doing this balloon nonsense, tards. You are reading this from the same networks who pushed russia gate, 19 goat fuckers with box cutters did 911, vax is safe and effective and on and on. Don't take the bait ^THIS. Don't fall for it again. Faux casus belli generation. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 85162355 Canada 02/03/2023 08:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's probably some surveillance balloon monitoring the border I said I can traffic people or drugs or something again in the US was looking the other way until it was discovered. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83827444 Now they have to act like it wasn't theirs. Its not anywhere near he border let alone flyig along it... go back to school...or pay attention... |
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Doctor Congo
User ID: 80951090 United States 02/03/2023 08:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | People have been asking what the heck is attached to the balloon. The biggest part are a set of solar panels which would supply power to the instrument package. My guess is that there is many sensors hanging from the balloon, including Synthetic Aperture Radar, hyperspectral infrared and a super high resolution visible sensor. I doubt that the sensors are highly classified because they could be examined if they ever shoot it down. The high res visible sensor could be an array of normal HD camera focal planes. All the sensors would be the very latest in consumer technology. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 69611282 United States 02/03/2023 08:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What did the Chinese spy balloon operator say when he got caught surveilling Montana? Quoting: BFD Hory Shit! Wi fry tu lo! -- Idiot. Japanese and Koreans speak like that. Most Chinese speak better English than you do. Travel much? -- That's funny. Stop being a triggered, gas lit phuck. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 85196153 Singapore 02/03/2023 08:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Democrats say closing our airspace is xenophobic and that the balloon is just seeking asylum. Fleeing persecution. It would be as inhumane is shooting illegal border crossers to shoot down the balloon. After all we wouldn’t want to tear it away from its balloon family |
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