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Milo and POTUS posted:I have a soft spot for it too. And god those sets were cool Oh yeah, the sequel of course has it beat in nearly every category except Mega City One street level scenes, with cyberpunk cars & fashion. Plus it was cool to see the Cursed Earth, the ABC robots were neat, and interesting to see how the rich folk lived in their nice towers. Balloon chat, is a likely reason it wasn’t shot down that they probably don’t know 100% if it is manned? Would guess probably worth the trade off to let it linger a bit and work it out over back channels rather than risk China having to react to a pilot being killed.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Balloon chat, is a likely reason it wasn’t shot down that they probably don’t know 100% if it is manned? Would guess probably worth the trade off to let it linger a bit and work it out over back channels rather than risk China having to react to a pilot being killed. I think the concern is more "Can't say with certainty where the debris will end up once shot down" and they don't want to risk it causing property damage or worse. Something falling from 60,000 feet isn't going to fall in a straight line to the ground.
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I have very big doubts that the balloon is manned, its at 60k feet and isn't traveling fast, seems like a waste of payload to put a person in it and all the food/oxygen/heat they'd need to survive
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It could literally just be a weather balloon gone missing.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I have a soft spot for it too. And god those sets were cool Youths today growing up on the endless firehose of Marvel movies have completely missed out on that period in the 80's and 90's when movies based on comics and video games were just complete nonsense with the flimsiest possible connection to the source material. I'm still wondering how they managed to trick Max von Sydow to be in that movie.
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Don't forget Blade, which is objectively the best Marvel film
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Stultus Maximus posted:It could literally just be a weather balloon gone missing. Apparently it loitered over some sensitive US nuke sites in Montana.
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Whats it going to see that satellites can't? Does it have propulsion onboard or something?
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Apparently it loitered over some sensitive US nuke sites in Montana. Google Maps already has that data anyways, who cares.
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lightpole posted:Whats it going to see that satellites can't? Does it have propulsion onboard or something? Satellites travel on a known orbital path so you can just hide stuff in a hangar when they pass over. They can alter direction somewhat but it uses up a lot of propellant and thus decreases the lifespan so it's sort of a "call the director/president" level of decision. And I'd imagine you can get more SIGINT data at "low" altitude than from in space, and again potentially stuff that could be hidden from sats.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Satellites travel on a known orbital path so you can just hide stuff in a hangar when they pass over. They can alter direction somewhat but it uses up a lot of propellant and thus decreases the lifespan so it's sort of a "call the director/president" level of decision. Yeah I'd bet it's 100% more SIGINT than anything else.
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A slow moving, very obvious balloon that we’ve supposedly been tracking for days isn’t going to catch anything sitting outside a hanger either though.
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fknlo posted:A slow moving, very obvious balloon that we’ve supposedly been tracking for days isn’t going to catch anything sitting outside a hanger either though. This. And balloons are basically dependent on the Jetstream I thought, didn't the guy that wanted to take one around the world struggle cause of this?
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lightpole posted:And balloons are basically dependent on the Jetstream I thought, didn't the guy that wanted to take one around the world struggle cause of this? Jet stream is comparatively low altitude and violent. Wanna get above it and just easy ride.
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Tiny Timbs posted:People send hobby balloons up there. I’d believe somebody could whip something together if they were motivated. Hobby rockets too
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lightpole posted:Whats it going to see that satellites can't? Does it have propulsion onboard or something? Satellites are great and all, but diffraction limits the max resolution you can get from a particular sensor size, not counting other factors like atmospheric distortion. Once you hit that limit you either need to greatly increase your sensor size (hard with something you need to launch into orbit) or get you sensor closer to what its looking at. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system?wprov=sfla1
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Whoops, meant to post that in the Army thread. Whatever, we can all laugh at it.
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One like one prayer one medal
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Puerto Rico National Guard, you mean.
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fknlo posted:As someone whose work day is currently revolving around the balloon and reports about the balloon, there wasn't going to be much pretending we couldn't see it. It's very, very obvious. Yeah it’s more prominent than Venus.
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I posted the balloon thing as a "lol look at this dumb thing" type of item. I really should've known it would consume about 100% of the newsmedia oxygen with every dumbass with access to a television saying I THINK WE SHOULD SHOOT IT DOWN and now it's a full national security/diplomatic incident. I couldn't give less of a gently caress. Call me when some idiot tries to shoot it and the tumbling bullet puts a hole in something.
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It’s a shame that it’s so high. If it were flying under the ceiling of GA craft, some hero would have brought it down.   
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If it makes you guys feel better, after all the releases in the cf in 2018, we only had 2 more members than the year before
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Platystemon posted:It’s a shame that it’s so high. I’m holding out hope that there’s some misanthropic yet patriotic teen who’s figuring out how to mount 3D-printed guns to a DJI Phantom drone to send it up there and take down that infernal Chinese war balloon spying on our innocent nukes as they’re sunbathing in the Montana wilderness.
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Refer 1 friend and get a red dot, 3 friends get an M203, 5 friends a M9, 8 friends a SAW and 10 friends an AT4. 15 you get one of those high cut FAST helmets
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russia has a similar program, but it moves you up the list of who gets to hold the ammo or gun
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Suicide Watch posted:Refer 1 friend and get a red dot, 3 friends get an M203, 5 friends a M9, 8 friends a SAW and 10 friends an AT4. 15 you get one of those high cut FAST helmets Oh word? Any of y’all want to re-enlist?
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facialimpediment posted:I posted the balloon thing as a "lol look at this dumb thing" type of item. I’d be absolutely shocked if it’s not getting shot at by idiots on the ground
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Cross posting but chances of that are increasingTerrifying Effigies posted:Given the projected path, chances for random locals firing wildly in the air to take down the Communist menace increasing: Taking bets on whether you get more fireworks from Knoxville/Gatlinburg or Fayetteville/Bragg.
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https://twitch.tv/watchmeforever An AI was given the Seinfeld catalogue and is now making it's own Seinfeld episodes from here to eternity
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Suicide Watch posted:Refer 1 friend and get a red dot, 3 friends get an M203, 5 friends a M9, 8 friends a SAW and 10 friends an AT4. 15 you get one of those high cut FAST helmets Jimmy Smuts fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Feb 4, 2023 |
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Refer 50 friends and you get a stylish 50's vintage backpack nuke Sold. Gonna con an entire high school graduating class into going 18X.
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TheWeedNumber posted:Sold. Gonna con an entire high school graduating class into going 18X.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:JROTC beat you to it gently caress, beaten by a 40 year old Air Force master sergeant tryna slang dick to 16 year olds. Really wanted that baby nuke.
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maffew buildings posted:https://twitch.tv/watchmeforever An AI was given the Seinfeld catalogue and is now making it's own Seinfeld episodes from here to eternity As if 9 seasons of that show wasn't enough of a plague on humanity.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:As if 9 seasons of that show wasn't enough of a plague on humanity. Still better than the Office.
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