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I'm curious what some free-floating balloon can supposedly accomplish that satellites can't. Is it 1944?
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:02 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 12:04 |
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I love the wording of this thing the evil Chinese are deviously building factories in MEXICO and then secretly trucking their products into the US, under a little known free trade deal that we just heard about today, and even duplicitous labeling them "MADE IN MEXICO"! Inscrutable!
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:03 |
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I hope they shoot it down and find out its an advertisement for the new DJI camera. Just giant rear end DJI Action logo on the top side.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:10 |
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I just assumed it was the make sunsets lunatics again
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:13 |
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KomradeX posted:Maybe I'm naive but I just assumed this thing was a weather ballon and the hooting about spy ballons is being driven by an insane war aparatus in a dying empire that feels the need to rachet up fear at every turn https://www.guancha.cn/internation/2023_02_03_678476.shtml "According to the news on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 3, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered a reporter's question on the Chinese unmanned airship straying into the airspace of the United States due to force majeure. Q: According to media reports, a Chinese unmanned airship appeared in the US airspace recently. What is China's comment? A: The airship comes from China and is of a civilian nature, used for scientific research such as meteorology. Affected by the westerly wind and its own control ability is limited, the airship seriously deviated from the scheduled route. China regrets that the airship strayed into the United States due to force majeure. China will continue to maintain communication with the US to properly handle the unexpected situation caused by force majeure."
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:13 |
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i cant possibly imagine being upset about the balloon
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:18 |
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US intelligence flabbergasted that you wouldn't use a painfully obvious method of collecting intelligence,
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:26 |
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Throatwarbler posted:I love the wording of this thing Isn't this what Amazon has done with their 21 million dollar Tijuana facility?
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:26 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:I hope they shoot it down and find out its an advertisement for the new DJI camera. Just giant rear end DJI Action logo on the top side. You joke, but they'd 100% put them on the genocide sanction list.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:29 |
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DiscountDildos posted:https://www.guancha.cn/internation/2023_02_03_678476.shtml I can't believe God did this
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:29 |
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edit: double post
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:32 |
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Multi-thread posting https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1621374590495723522
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:37 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm curious what some free-floating balloon can supposedly accomplish that satellites can't. Is it 1944? it's cheaper
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:37 |
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lollontee posted:it's cheaper I feel like the slow movement, being very obvious and the unpredictability of the wind over long distances kind of outweigh cheapness.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:47 |
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KomradeX posted:I feel like the slow movement, being very obvious and the unpredictability of the wind over long distances kind of outweigh cheapness. not when you can calculate probable wind directions, and being very obvious does not make it easy to shoot down, and being cheap lets you make a billion of them, if you were so inclined
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:51 |
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it’s like when the Japanese deployed OVER 9000 balloons the terrorize America the results: the equivalent of 100% of casualties inflicted on Americans in the actual United States in WW2. wait not the equivalent, it WAS 100% of them. six, by the way
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:56 |
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lollontee posted:not when you can calculate probable wind directions, and being very obvious does not make it easy to shoot down, and being cheap lets you make a billion of them, if you were so inclined The problem is probable, not exact, doesnt do you much good if wind drift takes you two or three states over from where you needed to be
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:56 |
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lollontee posted:not when you can calculate probable wind directions, and being very obvious does not make it easy to shoot down, and being cheap lets you make a billion of them, if you were so inclined A billion of them? So that's how China will destroy America. They'll release enough balloons to blot out the sun, sending us into a deep freeze, massive crops failure, and basically force us to live under artificial lights for the rest of our lives. We need to develop anti-balloons weapons, we cannot have a balloon gap.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:58 |
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lol blinken cancelled his trip because of the balloon, what a world class chen tweet
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:08 |
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lollontee posted:it's cheaper I guess I just assumed the satellites were already up there
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:17 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm curious what some free-floating balloon can supposedly accomplish that satellites can't. Is it 1944? Directly measure atmospheric conditions, gather samples of upper atmospheric dust or microbes, evaluate the precision of wind modeling.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:22 |
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Trabisnikof posted:Directly measure atmospheric conditions, gather samples of upper atmospheric dust or microbes, evaluate the precision of wind modeling. sound p inscrutable to me
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:26 |
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Centrist Committee posted:lol blinken cancelled his trip because of the balloon, what a world class chen tweet Can Xi send a balloon over my way? I too have some boring work meetings I need an BS excuse to get out of. (Does the US also still use “weather” balloons or is it all spy satellites now? Also I guess how frequently are regular weather balloons used these days. Are they still the only way to measure wind speeds not at the ground?)
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:34 |
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Pulcinella posted:Can Xi send a balloon over my way? I too have some boring work meetings I need an BS excuse to get out of. (Does the US also still use “weather” balloons or is it all spy satellites now? Also I guess how frequently are regular weather balloons used these days. Are they still the only way to measure wind speeds not at the ground?) there was a recent report of america planning to use a small cheap network of balloons to do domestic surveillance like 10 or so balloons would cover the whole lower 48 since they fly so high. the guardian posted:The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal. Real hurthling! has issued a correction as of 17:50 on Feb 3, 2023 |
# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:46 |
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I remember google was trying to use balloon to provide internet in Africa. I wonder whatever happened to it.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:49 |
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"rival balloon operator" is one hell of a combination of words
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:02 |
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"Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College" is my favorite new noun
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:04 |
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parents kicked me out because I wanted to go to Bard College
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:06 |
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mister president we cannot allow a carnie gap
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:09 |
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996 red balloons
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:12 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:I remember google was trying to use balloon to provide internet in Africa. I wonder whatever happened to it. the fact that there is absolutely nobody who could or would pay for it
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:14 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm curious what some free-floating balloon can supposedly accomplish that satellites can't. Is it 1944? hanging out over a region longer than 15 minutes per orbit unless you spend the megabucks to put it in geosynchronous
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:27 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:hanging out over a region longer than 15 minutes per orbit unless you spend the megabucks to put it in geosynchronous that's... not an aerostat
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:28 |
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Everything old is new Balloon haters about to be in shambles When they are fighting forest fires for the rest of time Seatbelts has issued a correction as of 18:35 on Feb 3, 2023 |
# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:32 |
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God I hate it here CHINESE BALLOON LIVE UPDATES
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:40 |
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The Chinese are just trying to bring entertainment back to America
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:42 |
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:43 |
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Whelp that settles it, America get gnomish flying machines (drones) and China gets goblin zepelins
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:46 |
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actually russia gets wyverns, china gets undead frost wyrms
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:50 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 12:04 |
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Chinese foreign ministry should just come out with something like "the balloon seems to be causing you much distress so feel free to shoot it down so you can calm down." then sit back and watch as we neither shoot it down nor calm down.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:52 |