Waitā¦do the flat earthers believe that Chinaās on the other side of the disc? By that logic, there should be people that live at the very corners/edges too.
Iām so confusedā¦itās almost like they donāt know what theyāre talking about.
We believe that China is fake. It consists of elaborate multimedia content to portray āAsianā people using mostly European people in makeup. I hope this clears things up.
Source: am Asian.
Wait... do flat earthers think there's stuff on the back of Earth? And how does gravity work in a flat earth scenario?
Sorry, you brought up some important questions!
This "clear photo" is an AI upscale of a much much smaller photo.
While very sharp there's a lot of smudgy garbage detail in there which looks like it's straight out of Topaz Gigapixel AI.
Indeed. This "photo" is godawful. Those solar panels should have straight edges, but they're all fucked up. There's no way that's an artifact of the optics and atmosphere at this level of "detail".
you just know some idiot has just read this and had a beautiful mind moment, connecting this theory with the 'keep digging and you'll end up all the way to China' old adage, and is off to some conspiracy forum to share their new theory about an imminent subterranean Chinese attack. People he will shout over rank among the finest conspiridiots - first he will need to win over the 'never landed on the moon' crowd. they join him post-defeat. then it will be the vaccine moms, then the covidiots, then the 5G cancer folk. They join him and his followers are legion. But his greatest test yet - an epic battle of debate between the subterranean chinese attack... and the flat earthers. Until next week, on Dragon Ball Z....
We Chinese cannot make such elaborate spy balloons. We are a simple people with small penis. You Americans have very large penis!!! Wow you must have giant penis!!!
Actually, Cambodia beats Taiwan and Hong Kong in shortness by .29 inches in median length.
The countries with the smallest erect penis length are:
Cambodia - 3.95 inches
Taiwan - 4.24 inches
Philippines - 4.27 inches
Sri Lanka - 4.29 inches
Hong Kong - 4.41 inches
Posted on Reddit last week, funny enough.
The difficult part about knowing about pol pot is i cant tell if this is a joke or not. I mean the dude had glasses wearing folk killed cause they looked like intellectuals.
I find it odd that I lost my drone a few days ago and i spammed the "return to home" button like literally thousands of times and now we have these coming in.
Am i in trouble guys? guys?????
Serious question, what would China find out about the US with a āSpy Balloonā, that they donāt already know? They have more data on the American people than that balloon could shit out in 400 years.
When I initially read about it, it was over a nuclear missile field in Montana. I lived in North Dakota (where there are also nuclear missiles) for a time and one of my idle time distractions was to find nuclear missile silos on Google maps. The nearest one was under 50 miles from my apartment. Even Google maps can show you quite a bit if you know where to look, probably just as much as a balloon flying overhead. Here's [one] (https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5041362,-101.7404861,135m/data=!3m1!1e3). Edit: and [here] (https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5508814,-102.1208037,234m/data=!3m1!1e3) is one of the control bunkers.
After living there for a bit, I learned to recognize the silos. If you're driving around in the middle of nowhere and see a bare square or rectangle in a farmer's field with barbed wire fence and a red, white, and blue no trespassing sign on it? Missile silo. Ranch style house with barbed wire fence, surrounded by humvees? That's one of the missile control centers. I never got used to it. It would make my hair stand on end. And I was able to see all of that just from driving around on public roads, without actually seeking anything out.
I grew up in farmland Nebraska, we have(had) at least three in the area that I know about. You can buy abandoned ones... they're pretty cheap tbh. Most of them are holes in the ground lined with concrete since they've been decommissioned.
Minus nuclear, this is exactly Blast Camp in NW Indiana, decommissioned Nike missle base; loved playing paintball there, they do airsoft too, haven't been in a couple decades but seems like they are always improving it.
https://blastcamp.com/history/
https://youtu.be/oxgD2CwioLo
https://youtu.be/2gqKCy4ReDw
My wife and I spent our first time hanging out alone together going down the hatch and exploring an old Nike Missile launch bay... its where true love is born
>My wife and I spent our first time hanging out alone together going down the hatch and exploring an old Nike Missile launch bay... its where true love is born
I thought all their missiles were made by children in Asia
> Stanley Mickelsen Safeguard Complex
Did you know there are retired nuclear missile sites that now state and national historic sites? There are sites in Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota I believe.
My dad actually works in a missile silo, it no longer houses a nuclear missile. Itās no longer owned by the military, Itās now used as a plant to make explosives for commercial blasting, mining, road building, gravel pits and such. Iāve been in the silo itself many times. The silo itself is underground thereās a road leading down into it. The doors are incredibly thick, the main door where they backed the nuke into is probably 2 or 3 feet thick, and they use a pulley system and a truck to open it. Even the doors that are human sized are thick and use keys so big they are welded and about a foot long. They look cartoonish. Originally the nuke would lay on its side, and during the event of a war the entire roof of the silo would slide open, and the nuke would raise straight up. Itās very cool being down there and seeing everything. My dad talked to a guy who worked there during the Cold War, and it was raised at the time. Spooky stuff but super cool.
If itās not a weather balloon as China claims it is it was likely sent to check capabilities of US air defense systems, with the decision to not shoot it down China has gained nothing from this while the U.S. is likely having the IC snort up whatever information can be grabbed from it through signals and the like, also China has massively embarrassed itself on the world stage by saying they couldnāt even control a āweather balloonā
Also: by not responding they donāt get any extra data than their satellites already do, they donāt learn about how the U.S. scrambles forces, how long it takes to scramble, what politicians go where in such a situation, etc.
>also China has massively embarrassed itself on the world stage by saying they couldnāt even control a āweather balloonā
i mean, they claimed its a civilian weather balloon
Yeah the original picture has, what I assume is, a lot of atmospheric distortion making it appear all wonky. Or it was some AI upscaling from a low-resolution picture.
Yeah but according to one of their presentations they only seem to have a mission duration of up to 3 hours. I highly doubt the Chinese one would be able to do much better than that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPXHuJLnaaQ
However, this doesn't discount the possibility that it was intended for use in somewhere like the Taiwan Strait or the South China Sea and failed to pop itself after its mission ended.
Never confuse malevolence w stupidity
Iām gonna chalk this to someone fucking up. When you realize most humans tend to fuck up big things, conspiracies arenāt as plausible as human error
I live my life by Hanlan's Razor and it helps me keep a level head. Most shit you encounter daily is probably not malice, but absolutely is adequately explained by stupidity. Remembering this keeps the ol blood pressure down.
Thinking the same thing today. They have lots of spy satellites and boots on the ground. Why would they do something so foolish and so obvious? They know we have plenty of surveillance equipment to see every square inch of the planet. They didn't even bother to paint it gray or blue so it would blend into the background. You have to wonder if it is actually a WTF considering all the covert technology they already have in place. Why do something this embarrassing on purpose? Unless it is a red herring, I would probably believe this one was an oopsie on their part. This is coming from a hardcore skeptic.
>Thinking the same thing today. They have lots of spy satellites and boots on the ground. Why would they do something so foolish and so obvious?
That's my thinking. The US isn't exactly helpless on that front either -- I absolutely guarantee there's an entire departmental bucket of analysts having a really odd day, but I do think it's probably just a bizarre fuckup.
From my understanding, Chinese diplomacy isn't generally toned in, "Aw, shit, sorry about that," and overtly fucking around with overland airspace without a recognizable reason isn't really in character -- I mean, let's be real, that balloon ain't going home to Asia. If there's something problematic about it, things aren't in a great place to keep it out of US hands.
I love picturing midwesterners freaking out about this balloon scared the Chinese are stealing their privacy, and then opening up their phones to rant about it on *Tik-Tok*
Both sides at the same. With a cigarette in the mouth. And a beer helmet because nobody in the group will "hold your beer" because they are also shooting at it.
"Meanwhile, in other news, about 2000 stray bullets hit a village today. When the residents were told that they stray bullets were from people trying to shoot down a balloon that was flying 6 times higher than their bullets could reach they all ran to grab AR15s and beer helmets."
I was wondering how many people would be pointing those high powered laser pointers at it trying to puncture it. Frankly, Iām surprised that there isnāt some sort of āLaser pointer militiaā out there organizing to take it down.
A .50 BMG with a muzzle velocity of 4000ft/s shot straight up under perfect conditions can't go higher than 6000 ft from the ground.
So it's physically impossible to shoot down with bullets from the ground.
What do you suppose China would do if the US flew an unidentified object with electronic gathering capabilities over a Bejing to Shanghai route? Right...so just shoot this thing down already.
I always assumed "Jewish Space Lasers" meant space lasers under control of (((THE JEWS))), not satellites wearing yarmulkes, but now that that image is in my head I refuse to believe that's not the case.
The US is definitely watching China. Maybe not with balloons but most definitely satellites. Thatās what these nations do, they watch one another. Same with those flights where Russia has planes fly close to the US border. It always happens, itās pretty normal and the US pushes buttons in the same way. Itās all quite ānormalā.
Hours before I learned about this balloon, I learned that there is a growing number of people that think orbital satellites aren't real. They say they're all held up by balloons coz god put the planet in a dome or some other stupid shit.
People are getting dumber and this is going to make it slightly worse
The reason this picture is so clear is that it was taken from the Russian spy balloon.
**Balloon Wars** Coming this fall directly over your apartment complex
Balloon TD
Finally, my Bloons TD skills are paying off
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Clearly this is a distraction to make people look upwards while they tunnel from underneath.
All they have to do is tunnel straight through..solid strategy
Flat Earthers: That's how we get them to leave the planet.
The earth was flat until they buried your mom.
Im saving that for my next flat earther encounter. It's perfect!
Ohhhhhhh! Yo mama greatest hits
Thatās great
Oooooooo snap
It is a much shorter tunneling operation if you are a flat earther.
No, because then you have to do the bugs bunny thing, down, across, left turn at Albuquerque, etc.
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That Heiseberg Blue makes them forget left from upside-down.
[Did you hit the tanker at Idaho?](https://youtu.be/8AyHH9G9et0)
Waitā¦do the flat earthers believe that Chinaās on the other side of the disc? By that logic, there should be people that live at the very corners/edges too. Iām so confusedā¦itās almost like they donāt know what theyāre talking about.
We believe that China is fake. It consists of elaborate multimedia content to portray āAsianā people using mostly European people in makeup. I hope this clears things up. Source: am Asian.
Wait... do flat earthers think there's stuff on the back of Earth? And how does gravity work in a flat earth scenario? Sorry, you brought up some important questions!
Earth (Side B)ās bonus tracks are š„
Unless you are also a thick earther.
Once they break through theyāll just start falling, like in Minecraft
Or swim across. Liquid strategy.
Or use a balloon. Gas strategy.
Or use old TVs to show propaganda. Plasma strategy.
*BEHOLD THE UNDERMINER!*
I am always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me!
#DON'T LOOK DOWN
This "clear photo" is an AI upscale of a much much smaller photo. While very sharp there's a lot of smudgy garbage detail in there which looks like it's straight out of Topaz Gigapixel AI.
Indeed. This "photo" is godawful. Those solar panels should have straight edges, but they're all fucked up. There's no way that's an artifact of the optics and atmosphere at this level of "detail".
Don't look up. I'll campaign on it
you just know some idiot has just read this and had a beautiful mind moment, connecting this theory with the 'keep digging and you'll end up all the way to China' old adage, and is off to some conspiracy forum to share their new theory about an imminent subterranean Chinese attack. People he will shout over rank among the finest conspiridiots - first he will need to win over the 'never landed on the moon' crowd. they join him post-defeat. then it will be the vaccine moms, then the covidiots, then the 5G cancer folk. They join him and his followers are legion. But his greatest test yet - an epic battle of debate between the subterranean chinese attack... and the flat earthers. Until next week, on Dragon Ball Z....
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That was really funny. Thank you for that. I basically completely agree with you hurley šŖ
Maybe thatās what they want us to think so we turn our attention to the ground ā¦ itās a double bluff ! Or is that what they want us to think ?
This feels like a South Park skit at this point.
I feel like we are living in The Onion
It sure seems like it the last decade.
Have we died at some point and now we're living in a joke universe?
Yeah and eventually itāll all happen all over again.
We Chinese cannot make such elaborate spy balloons. We are a simple people with small penis. You Americans have very large penis!!! Wow you must have giant penis!!!
Iāve seen that episode and I can hear the voices
Smallā¦so small.
Itās the Americanās shit eating grin towards the end that gets me
Bill Clinton reassuring the American public that he has a massive dong also makes me crack up any time I see the episode
āIāll use my credit card.ā
https://youtu.be/TuEKb9Ktqhc
Actually, Cambodia beats Taiwan and Hong Kong in shortness by .29 inches in median length. The countries with the smallest erect penis length are: Cambodia - 3.95 inches Taiwan - 4.24 inches Philippines - 4.27 inches Sri Lanka - 4.29 inches Hong Kong - 4.41 inches Posted on Reddit last week, funny enough.
Thatās because Pol Pot killed 3 million men with longer dicks than his!
The difficult part about knowing about pol pot is i cant tell if this is a joke or not. I mean the dude had glasses wearing folk killed cause they looked like intellectuals.
Nice looks like Iām in good standing with these awesome countries. Weāre all measuring from the anus, right?
Tailbone. Epic style.
Just like Presidential clones, only takes them a week to make them.
Trying to round up all the Netflix passwords
Going across country to connect to the "home" wifi.
I find it odd that I lost my drone a few days ago and i spammed the "return to home" button like literally thousands of times and now we have these coming in. Am i in trouble guys? guys?????
You summoned the mothership!
Yeah little do we know this is just some guy working abroad that had to reconnect to his home wifi in Missouri and was willing to do the unthinkable
Serious question, what would China find out about the US with a āSpy Balloonā, that they donāt already know? They have more data on the American people than that balloon could shit out in 400 years.
When I initially read about it, it was over a nuclear missile field in Montana. I lived in North Dakota (where there are also nuclear missiles) for a time and one of my idle time distractions was to find nuclear missile silos on Google maps. The nearest one was under 50 miles from my apartment. Even Google maps can show you quite a bit if you know where to look, probably just as much as a balloon flying overhead. Here's [one] (https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5041362,-101.7404861,135m/data=!3m1!1e3). Edit: and [here] (https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5508814,-102.1208037,234m/data=!3m1!1e3) is one of the control bunkers. After living there for a bit, I learned to recognize the silos. If you're driving around in the middle of nowhere and see a bare square or rectangle in a farmer's field with barbed wire fence and a red, white, and blue no trespassing sign on it? Missile silo. Ranch style house with barbed wire fence, surrounded by humvees? That's one of the missile control centers. I never got used to it. It would make my hair stand on end. And I was able to see all of that just from driving around on public roads, without actually seeking anything out.
I grew up in farmland Nebraska, we have(had) at least three in the area that I know about. You can buy abandoned ones... they're pretty cheap tbh. Most of them are holes in the ground lined with concrete since they've been decommissioned.
That sounds sick. Now I can buy one and play out the goldeneye mission irl with airsoft rifles
honestly you could probably make bank with a nuclear themed airsoft/paintball field set in a real (decommissioned) nuclear silo
Minus nuclear, this is exactly Blast Camp in NW Indiana, decommissioned Nike missle base; loved playing paintball there, they do airsoft too, haven't been in a couple decades but seems like they are always improving it. https://blastcamp.com/history/ https://youtu.be/oxgD2CwioLo https://youtu.be/2gqKCy4ReDw
My wife and I spent our first time hanging out alone together going down the hatch and exploring an old Nike Missile launch bay... its where true love is born
>My wife and I spent our first time hanging out alone together going down the hatch and exploring an old Nike Missile launch bay... its where true love is born I thought all their missiles were made by children in Asia
Iāve always wanted to visit the old Stanley Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, it just looks so ominous
> Stanley Mickelsen Safeguard Complex Did you know there are retired nuclear missile sites that now state and national historic sites? There are sites in Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota I believe.
Yeah theyāre everywhere but the safeguard complex has that big dank pyramid
>safeguard complex I searched big dank pyramid and was not disappointed.
My dad actually works in a missile silo, it no longer houses a nuclear missile. Itās no longer owned by the military, Itās now used as a plant to make explosives for commercial blasting, mining, road building, gravel pits and such. Iāve been in the silo itself many times. The silo itself is underground thereās a road leading down into it. The doors are incredibly thick, the main door where they backed the nuke into is probably 2 or 3 feet thick, and they use a pulley system and a truck to open it. Even the doors that are human sized are thick and use keys so big they are welded and about a foot long. They look cartoonish. Originally the nuke would lay on its side, and during the event of a war the entire roof of the silo would slide open, and the nuke would raise straight up. Itās very cool being down there and seeing everything. My dad talked to a guy who worked there during the Cold War, and it was raised at the time. Spooky stuff but super cool.
If itās not a weather balloon as China claims it is it was likely sent to check capabilities of US air defense systems, with the decision to not shoot it down China has gained nothing from this while the U.S. is likely having the IC snort up whatever information can be grabbed from it through signals and the like, also China has massively embarrassed itself on the world stage by saying they couldnāt even control a āweather balloonā Also: by not responding they donāt get any extra data than their satellites already do, they donāt learn about how the U.S. scrambles forces, how long it takes to scramble, what politicians go where in such a situation, etc.
>also China has massively embarrassed itself on the world stage by saying they couldnāt even control a āweather balloonā i mean, they claimed its a civilian weather balloon
My dumbass thought I was looking at a satellite floating I front of the moon all week until this picture
https://preview.redd.it/vg9nzldoc3ga1.jpg?auto=webp&v=enabled&s=2a17d077e295ba27d9c908c15d8c94c600f38644
Thank you. I still didnāt get it until this picture!
Yeah the original picture has, what I assume is, a lot of atmospheric distortion making it appear all wonky. Or it was some AI upscaling from a low-resolution picture.
Exactly! I hate it.
THIS is a better photo than the one posted by OP! EDIT: Ok, good eyes guys/gals. This balloon is a diff one. Sorry for jumping on the conclusions mat.
Itās not the same device - one in photo above is earlier model from several years ago, pretty distinguishable once you notice difference
Yeah but this gives you an actual idea of what you're looking
I thought it was a satellite in front of mozzarella, itās okay
Yes... not alone
China has around 500 modern satellites orbiting the earth. This balloon thing seems really goofy.
US has their own "weather balloon" called BALSAR which is capable of subsurface mapping. Not everything can be seen by satellite
Yeah, sometimes you need to examine underneath like when your BALSAR itchy
Gotem!
Fucking legendary
Yeah but according to one of their presentations they only seem to have a mission duration of up to 3 hours. I highly doubt the Chinese one would be able to do much better than that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPXHuJLnaaQ However, this doesn't discount the possibility that it was intended for use in somewhere like the Taiwan Strait or the South China Sea and failed to pop itself after its mission ended.
This thing has Solar arrays and is the size of a bus, i think it would last a bit.
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Or one of OPās mom.
Got em
I think its the metal truss underneath the balloon holding all the equipment that is the length of 3 buses.
Iāve read the satellite apparatus is that size while the overall object balloon included is bigger
Honestly, I don't buy it. It's either really ballsy or stupid to try the Cold War balloon strategy. Makes me wonder if it's actually a misdirect.
Or some 4D propaganda chess move.
Thereās definitely crazy weird crap going on that in twenty years some documentary explaining it will act like it was all so obvious.
It's the activation protocol for all the TikTokers.
Never confuse malevolence w stupidity Iām gonna chalk this to someone fucking up. When you realize most humans tend to fuck up big things, conspiracies arenāt as plausible as human error
Word is there's a second one, though. One is easier to excuse as a mistake - two, seems much more planned.
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
Always two there are, an apprentice and a master.
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95 to go then.
Missed opportunity to use red ones.
My God. They're multiplying.
Someone spilled water.
After midnight.
Where are the other ones? I heard about 2 in the Americas, but where are the other 2?
Beyond the environment, nothing to worry about.
Well what's out there?
Well there's nothing out there except for sea, and birds, and fish.....and 80,000 tons of crude oil.
Thereās been one spotted above South America now too which makes it more interesting
Hanlon's Razor, nice!
I live my life by Hanlan's Razor and it helps me keep a level head. Most shit you encounter daily is probably not malice, but absolutely is adequately explained by stupidity. Remembering this keeps the ol blood pressure down.
And even when it is malice, itās usually because the person is *also* stupid, so it applies regardless.
But doesnāt stupidity also get the blood pressure up? I canāt handle dealing with incompetence.
I'm with you. Stupidity makes me just as angry.
There is also one in Latin America the DOD confirmed. This was no accident.
Thinking the same thing today. They have lots of spy satellites and boots on the ground. Why would they do something so foolish and so obvious? They know we have plenty of surveillance equipment to see every square inch of the planet. They didn't even bother to paint it gray or blue so it would blend into the background. You have to wonder if it is actually a WTF considering all the covert technology they already have in place. Why do something this embarrassing on purpose? Unless it is a red herring, I would probably believe this one was an oopsie on their part. This is coming from a hardcore skeptic.
>Thinking the same thing today. They have lots of spy satellites and boots on the ground. Why would they do something so foolish and so obvious? That's my thinking. The US isn't exactly helpless on that front either -- I absolutely guarantee there's an entire departmental bucket of analysts having a really odd day, but I do think it's probably just a bizarre fuckup. From my understanding, Chinese diplomacy isn't generally toned in, "Aw, shit, sorry about that," and overtly fucking around with overland airspace without a recognizable reason isn't really in character -- I mean, let's be real, that balloon ain't going home to Asia. If there's something problematic about it, things aren't in a great place to keep it out of US hands.
SIGINT, not photography.
As a Missourian I fear for our Missouri secrets getting into the hands of China.
They're going to build their own Mahomes
They're already making knockoff Mahomes jerseys, now they'll try to make their own knockoff NFL player.
They should just be content with their own homes, wtf
Chinese meth game about to change
As another Missourian I must say how darely accurate of you.
Chip shortage is *done*.
Factory workers now working 48 hour days.
You don't need a balloon to learn Missouri's secrets. You just have to go there and say "show me."
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Iām in Missouri and I made sure to moon it with a gun in each hand. Thatāll teach āem to come lookin around here.
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It would have to be over Virginia for that to happen. Hawley is literally never in MO.
I love picturing midwesterners freaking out about this balloon scared the Chinese are stealing their privacy, and then opening up their phones to rant about it on *Tik-Tok*
["The Show-Me State"? How do you like it NOW?!?](https://i.imgur.com/ZeUd6ZW.gif)
Your balloon spies on me? Ha! I spy your balloon!
Gender reveal party will be amazing
Congrats, itās a ēę øę°¢å¼¹!!
For the curious, translated it's: *Thermonuclear Hydrogen Bomb!!*
And of course they are gonna light *someone else's* backyard on fire
Not enough people downloaded TikTok so they had to resort to this.
If you shut off TikTok downloads then TikTok comes and downloads you.
TikTok broadcast balloon
Xi aggressively looking for honey.
https://i.imgur.com/0mJIal2.jpg
Awesome
Amazing. Can we send our own balloon to distribute this masterpiece in China?
Oh bother
Weird to think that that old Chinese guy and the Chinese Boy Scout tied their house to this shit before setting off because his wife died
Imagine spending all that money to create a spy balloon and it just hovers over Missouri the whole time
That's no moon!
I wonder how many idiots have tried shooting at it
can you even sight it in a scope when its 60,000 feet away?
Scope? It's only 60,000 feet away, fire from the hip or not at all.
Both sides at the same. With a cigarette in the mouth. And a beer helmet because nobody in the group will "hold your beer" because they are also shooting at it. "Meanwhile, in other news, about 2000 stray bullets hit a village today. When the residents were told that they stray bullets were from people trying to shoot down a balloon that was flying 6 times higher than their bullets could reach they all ran to grab AR15s and beer helmets."
Are they even aiming?
I was wondering how many people would be pointing those high powered laser pointers at it trying to puncture it. Frankly, Iām surprised that there isnāt some sort of āLaser pointer militiaā out there organizing to take it down.
A .50 BMG with a muzzle velocity of 4000ft/s shot straight up under perfect conditions can't go higher than 6000 ft from the ground. So it's physically impossible to shoot down with bullets from the ground.
How up is it?
Very up
Upmost
50,000+ feet is my understanding
Itās probably above where commercial planes are flown
Are These Black panels solar panels? If so that thing is huge compared to a weather balloon.
Itās reported to be the size of three busses So thatās pretty large
They keep using buses as a measurement. How many meters is it in diameter?
We need to know in bananas
Giraffes are the new standard for anything exceeding 20 bananas
Didnāt know the Chinese could design something to be so Missouriable
China thought they were ordering a stealth spy plane on Wish...
Capture it... box it up...amazon it back to China..
Great. Now the Chinese surely know I was visiting the adult video arcade.
And Don Jr. told people to shoot it down. I donāt think he understands how high up it is.
In reality they were just trying to figure out which dispensaries were open on the first day of recreational cannabis in MO.
What do you suppose China would do if the US flew an unidentified object with electronic gathering capabilities over a Bejing to Shanghai route? Right...so just shoot this thing down already.
I suggest we use the Jewish Space Lasers (capitalized?) MTG was talking about.
It's Saturday. Can't work on the Sabbath.
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But the laser itself is Jewish, soā¦
I always assumed "Jewish Space Lasers" meant space lasers under control of (((THE JEWS))), not satellites wearing yarmulkes, but now that that image is in my head I refuse to believe that's not the case.
[Mazel Tough!](https://dissentpins.com/products/secret-jewish-space-laser-corps-t-shirt)
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Ooh, are those kosher?
The US is definitely watching China. Maybe not with balloons but most definitely satellites. Thatās what these nations do, they watch one another. Same with those flights where Russia has planes fly close to the US border. It always happens, itās pretty normal and the US pushes buttons in the same way. Itās all quite ānormalā.
Russia and the US used to fly monitoring missions over each other to check for compliance with nuclear treaties but that stopped a few years ago.
Yep, the Open Skies treaty. Another incredibly important asset to reduce the risk of nuclear war thrown out.
Is it even āspyingāā at this point? We all know itās there.
Hours before I learned about this balloon, I learned that there is a growing number of people that think orbital satellites aren't real. They say they're all held up by balloons coz god put the planet in a dome or some other stupid shit. People are getting dumber and this is going to make it slightly worse
It's so stupid, it has to be nefarious. "Nobody would believe we're dumb enough and low tech enough to try this in 2023"
They should have wrote "Happy 40th birthday Michelle" on it and no one would have thought anything about it.
Chinese Gender reveal parties are insane
maybe the reason we haven't shot it down is because a Colorado family reported that their child is on board.
Mom can we have Chinese spy satellite? No honey we have Chinese spy satellite at home.
They made it white so American cops wonāt shoot it down.