Curious case of China's balloon

[Camp]

Let’s Go Brandon.

[SixFoot]

@conan

@SixFoot

Only during the summer months though. It’s freakin’ freezing out there right now!

Little bit of cold shouldn’t prevent you from marking your territory.

It doesn’t, but that’s not the point. I don’t 'preciate being inconvenienced by the ChiComs over here in flyover country. lol

[Cratic3947]

I wonder what the big guys cut was for letting it fly over our nuke bases…

[RTchoke]

[Orygun]

@WuWei

Does the US have a national security interest in Taiwan?

Do you feel we do?

[RTchoke]

Updates

Top general says US probing if explosives were on Chinese spy balloon

[Camp]

That is how they end up never revealing what it was when it could have actually been a weather balloon.

Potentially??? Nice hedge word there.

We will get an alien skeleton from Area 51 before we get any more information on what this latest fiasco/diversion was.

[Guvnah]

@WorldWatcher

And if DOD knew, briefed the Commander in Chief and they show when and where, then the Commander in Chief is a liar.

No question about that. I listed that as one of the outcomes of this finger-pointing in a previous reply.

[Camp]

[conan]

Sounds like that spy balloon had lot of equipment on it.

And they tried to claim it was size of 3 school buses.

[DougBH]

@moonshine

@DougBH

@Guilds

@DougBH

If one asserts a thing to be a fact, they should be ready to back up that assertion with evidence. If they cannot or will not, they might as well keep quiet (or post in this forum).

What fact do i need to back up?

You don’t have to back up anything. If the Biden administration wants us to believe that three Chinese spy balloons entered our airspace during Trump’s administration, they need to provide the evidence.

the side thats been screaming voter fraud for 2 years despite no evidence doesnt get to ask for any in this case…

Good. Then I am in a position to ask for evidence.
Your response sounds like something Santos might have tried.

And saying we “analyzed” that there were balloons crossing the continent sounds like a lie he might have tried.
Let’s see the facts leading to this analysis, and the procedure used to come up with the conclusion.

[bigtwnvin]

Getting?

[bigtwnvin]

They musta been too preoccupied devising creative reasons to impeach Trump.

[WuWei]

@Orygun

@WuWei

Does the US have a national security interest in Taiwan?

Do you feel we do?

I’m not smart on Asia, so I don’t really know.

[FloridaYankee]

@Samson_Corwell

@conan

@Samson_Corwell

Natural selection at its finest.

Why do you say that?

When you shoot a bullet upwards, it comes back down with almost same speed as when it was fired. When it comes back down, it’s still lethal and can kill the person who shot it or others. If it’s fired perfectly straight into the air, it will be limited to terminal velocity on the way down because it’s not traveling in an arc.

They don’t come down at anywhere even approaching the speed at which they were fired. People are still occaisonally killed by them nonetheless however.

[Bosun]

You got that right +10

[Bosun]

You are a hellofa lot smarter than many.

[Bosun]

Naw, Joey Biden has Plausible Deniability of reality.

I still think Jill is guilty of senior abuse.

[Munimula1]

@Samson_Corwell

@conan

@Samson_Corwell

Natural selection at its finest.

Why do you say that?

When you shoot a bullet upwards, it comes back down with almost same speed as when it was fired. When it comes back down, it’s still lethal and can kill the person who shot it or others. If it’s fired perfectly straight into the air, it will be limited to terminal velocity on the way down because it’s not traveling in an arc.

I’m no physicist, but how could that be true? I mean the part about it coming down at almost the same speed as when it was fired.

[Impenitent]

I don’t think it will fall faster than 9.8 meters per second ^2 without propulsion …