The clearest photograph of the chinese ? baloon is . . . not very clear, but here she is

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[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (16 children)

They're probably for weather research, is my opinion.

Also china is a sack of dicks for not telling the world what they were doing when floating baloons over everybody's heads.

[–]raven9 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They are just weather ballons that usually come back to earth after a few hundred miles. There had to be freak conditions to carry them so far. This whole spy balloon bullshit is just American Govt. Nonsense. If they really believed they were spy devices they would have tried to captured them.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The one that was shot down was in <50 feet of water and they're gonna recover it. I won't be surprised if we never hear what it was, if it was anything but a weather baloon.

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    [–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    You seriously think China would release balloons and expect the wind would take them tens of thousands of mile to hover over areas of interest in the United States?

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      [–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Bingo. A disinformation campaign is not only about tricking people into believing lies, but sowing seeds of doubt about the truth. Of course, doubt is also promoted when lies are told for "good" reasons.

      [–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Well, it worked with covid.

      [–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      And there you go! The entire possibility of responses, in our two comments LOL

      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

      It’s for nukes.

      The US can shoot down a nuclear missile. They can’t hit us with nukes. It’s kind of an open secret.

      They floated this shit, to see if they can do a large emp.

      Turns out, they can.

      [–]FuckTardMonkey 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      They can’t hit us with nukes.

      Weapons do not have to be delivered by rocket. They can be delivered in a box of a truck or they can be delivered in a suitcase by hand.

      We send rockets to the Moon and land them back on Earth and you think we can't shoot a rocket carrying a nuclear weapon.

      [–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      What kind of EMP can be done from 60,000 feet from a balloon?

      [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      A nuke.

      It’s effective for about 1000 miles.

      We know they work from testing done about 900 miles away from Hawaii.

      About 90% of us would die, most likely I couldn’t you and I. Making invasion a lot easier.

      [–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      It was reported in the past week that President Trump's administration let Chinese baloons float over us as well. I'm pretty sure people are overreacting here. If China was to actually hit USA their own economy would implode. That's less bad than the CCP's highest officers losing power, though, which is the real reason we won't have that war.

      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Yea

      I can believe this is a distraction.

      News this year, not 4 years ago.

      [–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      that is what satellites look like. lol. so many have no idea nasa uses more helium than anyone

      [–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      The image is clearly "enhanced" with a digital filter. Probably AI based filter.