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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:39:45 PM EDT
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Quoted: Biden's decision to try and appease China by accepting their overflight of balloons is not surprising. And apparently China thinks balloons are a threat to no one. So why don't we launch our own instead? It would be entertaining. .  We did! |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:42:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:47:18 PM EDT
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Because in a few days we'll have another thing scroll across our news feed to distract us from the important things.
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:49:00 PM EDT
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I'd be OK with launching our own balloons over china if they were attached to some canned sunshine. Fuck china. That shithole should have been nuked in 1945.
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:49:02 PM EDT
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If we only had a way to put cameras up high in the air and make them fly around the world looking at whatever we want to see. Then we wouldn't need balloons.
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:49:48 PM EDT
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I don't care about launching our own. I'm curious as to why the chicken dick little bitches who are charged with keeping this country safe haven't made a move to get that 'weather balloon" out of the sky.
The feckless cowards are so worried about inclusion and social justice that security of the United States doesn't even rate an afterthought. Pussies. Edit: not calling Arfcomers pussies. I'm calling the establishment assholes in D.C. pussies. |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:49:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If we only had a way to put cameras up high in the air and make them fly around the world looking at whatever we want to see. Then we wouldn't need balloons. This |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:50:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If we only had a way to put cameras up high in the air and make them fly around the world looking at whatever we want to see. Then we wouldn't need balloons. Dude... You should totally contact Elon about this idea. I bet he'd figure something out. |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:50:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't care about launching our own. I'm curious as to why the chicken dick little bitches who are charged with keeping this country safe haven't made a move to get that 'weather balloon" out of the sky. The feckless cowards are so worried about inclusion and social justice that security of the United States doesn't even rate an afterthought. Pussies. Also this |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:50:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd be OK with launching our own balloons over china if they were attached to some canned sunshine. Fuck china. That shithole should have been nuked in 1945. What did they do in 1945? |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:51:21 PM EDT
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We launched our balloons already to surveil our own people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:53:12 PM EDT
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I am just here to say Fuck Joe Biden and fuck your feelings
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:54:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't care about launching our own. I'm curious as to why the chicken dick little bitches who are charged with keeping this country safe haven't made a move to get that 'weather balloon" out of the sky. The feckless cowards are so worried about inclusion and social justice that security of the United States doesn't even rate an afterthought. Pussies. Joe has never had the balls to take action… Remember he was the one arguing for us not to go get bin Ladin. He is exactly the kind of weak willed man that will force us into something more serious through appeasement. -Mike |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:56:42 PM EDT
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Anyone that thinks this balloon is seeing something that their satellites hasn't already seen is wrong.
Hell. Google Earth shows you everything already. |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:56:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What did they do in 1945? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'd be OK with launching our own balloons over china if they were attached to some canned sunshine. Fuck china. That shithole should have been nuked in 1945. What did they do in 1945? They're fucking communists then and they're fucking communists now. |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:58:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone that thinks this balloon is seeing something that their satellites hasn't already seen is wrong. Hell. Google Earth shows you everything already. It’s not seeing. |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:59:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone that thinks this balloon is seeing something that their satellites hasn't already seen is wrong. Hell. Google Earth shows you everything already. Honestly the data they collect is not the point. Are we really ok with letting another country put spy aircraft in our airspace? -Mike |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 8:59:58 PM EDT
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Testing our reaction. Probably has receiving equipment to record our interrogation and jamming electronic signals. And the balloon is more than likely fitted with an altitude sensitive destruction device on it.
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:01:35 PM EDT
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I think Arfcom should put a Surveillance balloon up to monitor the FIB and AFT. The shitheads in government already said they couldn't do anything about it.
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:02:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:03:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:05:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Honestly the data they collect is not the point. Are we really ok with letting another country put spy aircraft in our airspace? -Mike Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Anyone that thinks this balloon is seeing something that their satellites hasn't already seen is wrong. Hell. Google Earth shows you everything already. Honestly the data they collect is not the point. Are we really ok with letting another country put spy aircraft in our airspace? -Mike I get it. We know it was never about real time intel other than what the reaction would be to the action. |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:37:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Joe has never had the balls to take action Remember he was the one arguing for us not to go get bin Ladin. He is exactly the kind of weak willed man that will force us into something more serious through appeasement. -Mike Why are Generals (think Patton) and Admirals ( think Marcenko, although I can't remember if he made Admiral) not standing on tables and stomping up and down? Why the hell are we clutching pearls when we should be scrambling jets? I am not ragging on the American fighting man. I'm dogging on the dumbasses that are leading our bravest. To our millitary leaders, Fuck China! Man the fuck up and stop this threat, curs. |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 9:44:47 PM EDT
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BALLOON THREAD!!!
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Posted: 2/3/2023 11:53:39 PM EDT
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We don't need balloons, we have satellites that were not made by Harbor Freight.
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Posted: 2/3/2023 11:54:37 PM EDT
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They could make us a deal on one and save on shipping
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Posted: 2/3/2023 11:59:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If we only had a way to put cameras up high in the air and make them fly around the world looking at whatever we want to see. Then we wouldn't need balloons. Sounds like science fiction. They'd hit the firmament before they got high enough. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 12:01:38 AM EDT
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We need a balloon forum.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 12:02:13 AM EDT
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WE gave them all to Ukraine
 
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Posted: 2/4/2023 12:02:25 AM EDT
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We'll get bigger balloons with bigger nails until we create a balloon so big it will destroy the world.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 8:21:46 AM EDT
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Air currents
They don't flow west. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 8:24:03 AM EDT
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BALLOON WARS
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Posted: 2/4/2023 8:30:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Air currents They don't flow west. Lol. Would have some explaining to do as it passes over Europe, the Middle East, maybe even parts of Russia first. 
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Posted: 2/4/2023 8:48:15 AM EDT
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Sentient satellites are more our speed.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 9:09:36 AM EDT
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We don't launch balloons because we have satellites. The thing is, China also has satellites. So, why the hell are they flying balloons?
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:37:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We don't launch balloons because we have satellites. The thing is, China also has satellites. So, why the hell are they flying balloons? But a lumbering balloon kinda is also....so not sure. China isn't denying it, from what I can tell. However the timing of the visit to China and the balloon is alightly suspect. Again, I wouldn't doubt us re-using a previously captured balloon and releasing it to stir the pot. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:46:40 PM EDT
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Quoted: Biden's decision to try and appease China by accepting their overflight of balloons is not surprising. And apparently China thinks balloons are a threat to no one. So why don't we launch our own instead? It would be entertaining. . Because which ever country we would launch them over would shoot them down making us look even weaker. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:49:30 PM EDT
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Counter assault balloons are being staged
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:59:47 PM EDT
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We have plenty of eyes in the sky already.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:06:23 PM EDT
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Came here to post a sarcastic clip from "V the final Battle" you know the scene where they used hot air balloons to drop red dust into the air?
I just watched it a few weeks ago but now it's nowhere to be found on YouTube. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:14:31 PM EDT
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Cause we have these
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:16:04 PM EDT
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The situation is ballooning out of control
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:16:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If we only had a way to put cameras up high in the air and make them fly around the world looking at whatever we want to see. Then we wouldn't need balloons. lol |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:19:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Biden is launching some this weekend, just waiting for Amazon to deliver them. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/413300/p-2932715602-ce3007e11d-b_54_990x660_201-2696832.JPG Make one in the form of a Poo Bear and have the sensor package looking like it's comming out of its ass. [In Chinese] Look it's the 'Xi Jinping Blimp' [/In Chinsese] Dude........ |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:31:05 PM EDT
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81,000,000 red luft balloons
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:34:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:37:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Joe has never had the balls to take action… Remember he was the one arguing for us not to go get bin Ladin. He is exactly the kind of weak willed man that will force us into something more serious through appeasement. -Mike I'm glad you posted that, a lot of folks don't know that he has been a worthless liar and dipshit from birth |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 4:46:15 PM EDT
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Surprised no mention of Japan's balloon warfare in WWII against the US. They did proof of concept with the balloons carrying incindaries. They threatened biowarfare agents onboard next to bring about a peace settlement.
Jet stream goes west to east. The balloons were small hot air. China is capable of doing the same. |
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