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(I don't think this is realistic, just musing about other schemes that could be going on.)
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Ohio
What's happening in Ohio? As non-american I have no idea.
I guess people are focusing on it because anyone that counters them ends up looking like they are trying to minimize a rather calamitous event.
Like burning off the vinyl chloride monomer is going to produce quite a lot of gnarly stuff like hydrogen chloride (which turns into hydrochloric acid when in solution with water), but there hasn't been any information produced that indicates that there will actually be a persistent problem stemming from it (at least, relative to the emissions environment that exists).
Imagine if you launch a balloon for say $10k so that your adversary has to spend $400k on a missile plus $70k x number of planes x hours in flight. And now do it multiple times per week. Seems like a decent strategy.
A balloon that requires a missile to be brought down has to be really big, like soccer field big. In which case it won’t cost just $10k.
https://weatherscientific.com/collections/weather-balloons/p...
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Ohio
What's happening in Ohio? As non-american I have no idea.
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Something that puzzles me is how you specifically target China with a satellite. They can't be geostationary unless they're over the equator.
They're targeting Chinese capabilities, not Chinese geography.
If an agitator puts up a balloon and payload, one of which contains a potentially dangerous substance, and a nation in question shoots it down, thus releasing and activating that substance, who is responsible? And who does the public deem responsible? (I don't think this is realistic, just musing about other schemes that could be going on.)
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Until we get some more information about what these are, it just invites wild speculation. Even just an image of the objects would help, but at the moment we have nothing and there is not much opportunity to provide insightful comments.
But it’s surprising just how much information we do have. What reason did the military have (both US and Canadian) to leak info about the shape of the objects?
Letting the first one fly across the country and generate so much coverage just prior to these latest events seems more than a coincidence as well.
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Surveillance satellites are very different to directly flying this equipment into US airspace, including the fact that this equipment could hold paylods other than ISR. Not to mention this comment implies China does not have equivalent spy satellites, which it does. Also the UN is an absolute joke. That article links has China and Russia complaining about the West being aggressors so honestly its kinda BS. Also forge…
>>Also the UN is an absolute joke UN is literally just a forum for countries to meet and discuss matters. Nothing more nothing less. I have no idea why people expect UN to take action, when UN is explicitly not an organisation for taking any actions.
If an agitator puts up a balloon and payload, one of which contains a potentially dangerous substance, and a nation in question shoots it down, thus releasing and activating that substance, who is responsible? And who does the public deem responsible? (I don't think this is realistic, just musing about other schemes that could be going on.)
Balloons could be a clever counter to what the US is doing with Low Earth Orbit satellites recently. SpaceX is launching tons of spy/missile defense satellites over China as part of the Space Development Agency: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency China has been complaining to the United Nations about it. https://press.un.org/en/2022/gadis3698.doc.htm More details: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Star…