the Chinese are invading us with a high tech montpelier

[ZenOps]

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The balloon would have been preprogrammed, not radar guided lol.

One of the claims made was that it precisely flew over numerous sensitive sites, including nebraska and Missouri.

“If you ask somebody to draw an X at every place where our sensitive missile defense sites, our nuclear weapons infrastructure, our nuclear weapon sites are, you would put them all along this path,” Rep. Mike Turner

Fuckin lying swine.

I wouldn't be so sure. They can't even get approval in the USA to turn on a Tesla self driving system. Elons satellites do not have enough electrical power to stay in their respective orbits without ground station calculations. They can make minor corrections if told to do so, but if something hits like atmospheric drag or a solar flare, they must be controlled from the ground to compensate, or they fail very quickly.

7.70 kilometers per second means that a gram of thrust in the wrong direction at the wrong time is a very bad thing. Likewise, if you have to burn 20 grams of fuel per day as thrust, that satellite will have a rough time lasting more than five years, which means you want to always have the supercomputer adjusting the movements to save on fuel.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barryco...h=eb2f88a95fd7

What it comes down to is electrical power. You cannot have a self steering AI without using maybe 1KW of power, something that is lacking on anything in the air. Its infinitely better to have a 100KW megabrain on the earth with multiple calculation redundancies pumping a 100 watt signal as guidance.

All that being said: A communication balloon, if it can be steered and survive a couple years in the radiation and wind hell that is up there - would be a superior solution to Elons satellite fleet. Not only is it closer to earth for faster speed on shorter distances, it can carry much larger solar panels for more bandwidth, and its less expensive.

If you praise Elon for Starlink, one should be praising China for weather balloon tech.

[ExtraSlow]

So is this the count?
- balloon over canada and USA, shot down near South Carolina
- balloon over Central America
- unidentified object near Alaska North slope, Deadhorse, shot down over sea ice.
- unidentified object near Canada USA border shot down over Yukon mountains.
- Unidentified object near Canada USA border shot down over lake Huron

I miss any that have been publically announced in 2023?

[mr2mike]

Looks up to date.

[ExtraSlow]

[Buster]

Why are we calling them mysterious.

[killramos]

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Why are we calling them mysterious.

Makes for great clickbait

[vengie]

Based on my quick technical analysis of that map, we aren't at bottom yet.

[ThePenIsMightier]

Why are they shooting them down with ludicrous missiles? A dozen bullets and it will ease itself down like an old man into a hot bath so that recovery is simple.

What am I missing with that strategy?

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

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Why are they shooting them down with ludicrous missiles? A dozen bullets and it will ease itself down like an old man into a hot bath so that recovery is simple.

What am I missing with that strategy?

Gotta display some force so Can/US don’t appear “weak”?

[Tik-Tok]

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Why are they shooting them down with ludicrous missiles? A dozen bullets and it will ease itself down like an old man into a hot bath so that recovery is simple.

What am I missing with that strategy?

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When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn't bring it down

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/weather-ba...161314996.html

[mr2mike]

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Why are they shooting them down with ludicrous missiles? A dozen bullets and it will ease itself down like an old man into a hot bath so that recovery is simple.

What am I missing with that strategy?

Never popped a condom I guess. Hole doesn't stay pinhole.

[ThePenIsMightier]

LoL!
Which is it?!

[Yolobimmer]

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Why are we calling them mysterious.

They don't know what the "small cylindrical" objects are.

For sure, they aren't weather balloons like the first one.

[ExtraSlow]

I find a lot of life mysterious and full of wonder. And not just when I click "View post".

[Yolobimmer]

ACTUAL footage of the surprisingly maneuverable balloon evading first F22

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYrWc3he/

[g-m]

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I find a lot of life mysterious and full of wonder. And not just when I click "View post".

Sounds like mistakes were made

[Darell_n]

So a $500 balloon costs likely $1million each to remove? I’d say China is winning. Send enough to make the public stop caring, then they can actually start utilizing them fully. I’d like to see them accidentally release 100 of them at once to float over the US.

[ExtraSlow]

Palestine can help with that math.

[OU812]

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What am I missing with that strategy?[/QUOTE

You would think that if we can send an RC car to the surface of the moon there would be a way to bring these objects down in a controlled manner as well

[Buster]