Balloon Wars 2023!!!

[Poppy]

From the link @PhotonWrangler posted above:

The balloons can come in several forms. Some enthusiasts still use common, Mylar party balloons, with a set of published calculations to determine the amount of gas to inject. But the round-shaped Mylar balloons often are unable to ascend higher than 20,000-30,000 ft., so some pico balloonists have upgraded to different materials.

I wonder if mylar party balloons will be a thing of the past, and be outlawed.

 

[bykfixer]

I've tuned out of the whole "balloon thing". Too much BS anymore. We'll probably never know what really happened.

WAR Inc. needs a reason to exist and aside from Ukraine they've nothing to get paid for. So let's drum up some drama to get folks all whipped into a frenzy shoot stuff then sell guns and bombs and make some real money again.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Balloonapalooza II - Electric Boogaloo. Here we go again.

 

[raggie33]

The other day a Ballon flew over was a number 5 .

 

[chillinn]

This is cute.

 

[PhotonMaster3]

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The wreckage has been recovered.

Looks like Guinan better lay off the chocolate sundays in 10 forward

 

[bykfixer]

^^ that's hillarious

So on the radio today the guy was talking about a weather balloon that had been circling the globe for some 18 months using solar power to collect and transmit data back to a facility in the US. They gave specifics but frankly I wasn't paying close attention. Any, it seems it was located over Canada at some point when NORAD dispatched an alert. At exactly the same time a US jet shot down a "UFO" the balloon stopped transmitting data.

 

[xxo]

2 $400,000 sidewinder missiles fired from a $400,000,000 F22 to shoot down a $12 balloon belonging to the kids of the Bottlecap Balloon Brigade.

Did Joe Biden shoot down hobbyists $12 balloon with $380,000 missile?

A mystery object shot down by U.S. fighter jets amid ongoing hysteria sparked by a Chinese 'spy' balloon may have been a $12 inflatable launched by a hobby group in Illinois.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[raggie33]

French toast place egg in bowl empty a good amount of cinnamon in bowl. Then put in cheap white bread soak the egg up make sure you use as much egg as you can I even tip bowl as I pour into frying pan cook then eat beware of that egg sal!enlalla so cook it good

 

[PhotonMaster3]

I'm surprised we didn't have some part of directed energy weapon on top of a mountain to blast that thing.

 

[bykfixer]

I'm surprised we didn't have some part of directed energy weapon on top of a mountain to blast that thing.

The Navy has one but it's probably aimed at the Norks right now. 🖖

 

[chillinn]

This is cute.

Zoom in. Bottom. Center. Left. Crop and enhance. And zoom.

 

[chillinn]

US Military Tracking Another Mysterious Balloon

...over Hawaii headed towards Mexico. There's really no information in that article, and no better article yet.

Honk if you don't care.

 

[raggie33]

 

[fredx]

The byden admin will shoot it down with a very expensive sidewinder AFTER it has completed its mission
Then secretly compensate chyna for their loss

 

[Poppy]

Should we shoot down their satellites too?
Oh wait! Maybe they'd shoot down ours too.
Where would that lead?

 

[Jean-Luc Descarte]

Can the US shoot down their satellites, though? Do they have the ordnance that can reach them?

 

[Poppy]

Can the US shoot down their satellites, though? Do they have the ordnance that can reach them?

yes

 

[fredx]

Should we shoot down their satellites too?
Oh wait! Maybe they'd shoot down ours too.
Where would that lead?

My mistake, Your right
Just let them do whatever they want and send them some money also

 

[idleprocess]

Can the US shoot down their satellites, though? Do they have the ordnance that can reach them?

• ASM-135 was developed, successfully tested, yet supposedly never deployed
• RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 has ASM capabilities, and successfully destroyed an NRO satellite in 2008
• The X-37 has been doing some ... interesting yet classified ... things in orbit with 6 missions thus far ranging from 224 to 908 days performing unusual maneuvers; the potential to neutralize satellites is but one of many tricks it may have available

Should we shoot down their satellites too?
Oh wait! Maybe they'd shoot down ours too.
Where would that lead?

A Kessler Syndrome if we're not careful, which could render most or all orbits useless. In addition to the two US missions, Russian and Chinese ASM missions have contributed to thousands of pieces of hazardous space junk.