Chinese spy balloon hovering over Montana

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NorthDallas40 said:
No idea honestly. While I worked in electro optical systems my whole career I never worked on high altitude or space. In the business if you see the telescope aperture diameter and suspect the camera imaging wavelength you know all you need to know on what the theoretical resolution limit is.
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Who knows.

Maybe you can put a better spy camera on a satellite the size of a school bus, than you can on a balloon the size of a school bus.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Who knows.

Maybe you can put a better spy camera on a satellite the size of a school bus, than you can on a balloon the size of a school bus.
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The biggest obstacle to quality imagery at altitude is generally temperature or more specifically temperature change and thermal gradients across the whole optical path. It’s a major PITA to manage.
 
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OrangeBoro said:
This guy went from non stop but but but Trump to now but but but Reagan. They really struggle defending their hero the corrupt POS
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Iran/Contra wasn't even his biggest blunder. Reagan really did damn near blow up the world in 1983.





.... but this balloon is "an unprecedented national security blunder of incalculable damage." Yeah. Sure.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
So wait... has it been confirmed if this really was a "spy" balloon and not just a weather balloon that went of course? Do we really think that it is reasonable that China can navigate a balloon to the US and use that as a spy instrument?

Is this "really" a serious issue or is this something that is being pumped up to lay down the groundwork for a war with China?
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You really think the Chinese were monitoring weather or the environment?

China has already laid out their intention to be ready for conflict with the US. We'd be stupid not to prepare in kind.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
That's funny .... because being that I am 49 years old, I do remember the Iran/Contra affair, which involved the Reagan Administration secretly facilitating the sale of arms to Iran, who was simultaneously the subject of an arms embargo as a state-sponsor of terrorism. When the arms sale to Iran began in 1981, they had just held American diplomats hostage in an embassy for more than a year. Did Ronald Reagan resign? Nope. How about Weinberger or Shultz? Nope and Nope.

That administration sold arms to a state-sponsor of terrorism who had just taken American diplomats hostage for f*** sake. Now, what's this $hit about a balloon?
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And since then it's become common place. Nobody cares anymore. The left wasn't up in arms about Benghazi and the front for arms dealing to terrorist organizations and their sponsors that was. Did Obama or Hillary resign? They beheaded Americans on TV!

It's ok to be outraged and speak out, but at least be consistent.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Iran/Contra wasn't even his biggest blunder. Reagan really did damn near blow up the world in 1983.





.... but this balloon is "an unprecedented national security blunder of incalculable damage." Yeah. Sure.
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How was Able Archer a blunder on our side?
 
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Attempted deception by the U.S. government
When the U.S. government learned of Powers's disappearance over the Soviet Union, they lied that a "weather plane" had strayed off course after its pilot had "difficulties with his oxygen equipment". What CIA officials did not realize was that the plane crashed almost fully intact and that the Soviets had recovered its pilot and the plane's equipment, including its top-secret high-altitude camera. Powers was interrogated extensively by the KGB for months before he made a confession and a public apology for his part in espionage.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Iran/Contra wasn't even his biggest blunder. Reagan really did damn near blow up the world in 1983.





.... but this balloon is "an unprecedented national security blunder of incalculable damage." Yeah. Sure.
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Your guy, which is owned by Xi let's the thing fly the whole country before shooting it down. Which at the current state of his brain which is scrambled eggs he may not have known
 
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hog88 said:
How was Able Archer a blunder on our side?
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NATO ... not just the United States - it was a NATO exercise that Reagan insisted on carrying out even though hostilities were at an all time Cold War high after the shooting down of the Korean airliner. It too realistically mimicked what NATO's response to a Soviet nuclear strike would actually be. Andropov was paranoid that it was a guise for a genuine attack. It almost happened.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
NATO ... not just the United States - it was a NATO exercise that Reagan insisted on carrying out even though hostilities were at an all time Cold War high after the shooting down of the Korean airliner. It too realistically mimicked what NATO's response to a Soviet nuclear strike would actually be. Andropov was paranoid that it was a guise for a genuine attack. It almost happened.
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But it didn't and we not only conducted a successful exercise we gained mountains of intel from it. The only "blunder" was by the Soviets and their failure to recognize it was an exercise.

You're trying way to hard.
 
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