The Chinese balloon incident concerns me. I’m not concerned that China will gather valuable intel, but rather that this is an escalation in tension between the 2 countries
I’m somewhat surprised the US hasn’t shot it down / forced it to land yet. I imagine that will happen eventually, with the technology seized and examined. I’m sure the Chinese would have done that had the situation been reversed
https://apnews.com/article/politics-antony-blinken-china-314302278a5f05bdc2df146ed5b35ec6
Could have just used Google Maps.
Unless they REALLY need to know what kind of car I drive (and they’ll be disappointed).
The article said that since the balloon was at 60,000 ft it would be messy and dangerous to shoot it down since it would create a sizable debris storm
But it’s just an innocuous civilian weather balloon that accidentally went of course to the other side of the world!
I remember that time my kite accidentally ended up flying over australia when i was just trying to enjoy myself on a california beach…
Was that the kite that got caught up in the power lines and caused the big bushfire that killed a billion native animals?
it’s a balloon. people need to chill
“Where does he get those wonderful toys?”
I thought the “1947 incident” near Roswell New Mexico was just a military ballon that crashed. This thing can’t be much different.
Why the Chinese gotta cause a fuss
And spy balloons, really? What is this, 1923?
When they replace all the birds with bird-shaped drones they won’t need balloons anymore. (That’s if they haven’t done it already).
I have always denied that and will continue to do so!
Replace? Birds aren’t real! /s
Reminds me of the fu-go bombs from WWII.
Don Jr. thinks a well armed citizenry should take matters into their own hands.
Hitting a balloon at 60,000 feet? That’s not any harder than hitting a womp rats back home!
In addition, a bullet has a vertical range of about 10,000 feet. Nevetheless, I can imagine a few marksmen scouring the sky for something resembling a baloon.
I am sure the Chinese are gathering intelligence on the US in much more sophisticated ways than this balloon.
Hope you don’t decide to shoot it down when it drifts north of the US border.