Chinese spy balloon hovering over Montana

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This is one of the better takes I've heard on this:



He basically connects this act of aggression from China with us opening 4 new military bases in the Philippines.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I just read that China says its a civilian weather experiment. It just "got lost" and happened to float over our ICBM sites in Montana. Normally, I trust everything China says, but this is pushing it.
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Blue font right?
 
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What would a nuclear bomb do at 26 miles over the US? This could be test run to see what we would or will do. If China can do this, who else could do this?
 
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loggervol said:
What would a nuclear bomb do at 26 miles over the US? This could be test run to see what we would or will do. If China can do this, who else could do this?
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They'd put a nuke in a balloon? A balloon lauched from the middle of their own territory?
 
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loggervol said:
What would a nuclear bomb do at 26 miles over the US? This could be test run to see what we would or will do. If China can do this, who else could do this?
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Not sure this one is at the right altitude, but a thermonuclear detonation at a certain altitude would generate a massive EMP that could cripple up to 1/2 of the CONUS.
 
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loggervol said:
What would a nuclear bomb do at 26 miles over the US? This could be test run to see what we would or will do. If China can do this, who else could do this?
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I'm pretty sure that we have the technology to tell if a nuclear weapon is aboard that thing. If this is a test run to see how we would react in the event a bomb in a balloon is floated over, they got no info.

Edit: you and i may have just stumbled on to a reason why they didn't respond... the government doesn't view this particular incident as a serious threat for some reason and they don't want the CCP to know how they'd react.
 
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clarksvol00 said:
I'm pretty sure that we have the technology to tell if a nuclear weapon is aboard that thing. If this is a test run to see how we would react in the event a bomb in a balloon is floated over, they got no info.

Edit: you and i may have just stumbled on to a reason why they didn't respond... the government doesn't view this particular incident as a serious threat for some reason and they don't want the CCP to know how they'd react.
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Well as long as YOURE pretty sure I guess we can just all relax and close the thread.
 
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What kind of battery would they use on a high altitude recon balloon? Would we be able to tell the difference between a nuclear battery and a explosive device?
 
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clarksvol00 said:
"It hides radiation because it's heavy."
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That’s what I said. Apparently you struggle with the purpose of quotation marks. I’m sitting next to my 80 year old father. He majored in Environmental Science at UT and his father worked at Oak Ridge for 9 years. He’s laughing at you. Thanks for this, he’s been a little grumpy since the Florida game the other night. Now I’m laughing because you thought that going back and adding the word “big”made your post sound more scientific.
 
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