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[ "Though DeSantis hasn’t officially announced that he’ll challenge Trump for the GOP nomination, he has captured the heart of many Republicans who want a more polished version of Trump’s gleeful denigration of minorities\n\nSo the gop just wants a shinier turd", ">\n\nFor some voters, they'll vote for anything if it's shiny enough.", ">\n\nAnd turdy enough.", ">\n\nI've been hoping for open warfare between Trump and the 'mainstream' GOP since 2015.", ">\n\nTrump is mainstream GOP now.", ">\n\nEvery time I think the Republicans have hit moral and ethical rock-bottom, they open a trap door.", ">\n\nRace to the bottom? Start and Finish lines are in same place now. They've been at the bottom for some time now.", ">\n\nEverything I think they have reached the bottom, they break out the shovels.", ">\n\nThat race is going on forty years now. Where ‘ya been?", ">\n\nthey're already calling for the extermination of transgender people..." ]

[ "Though DeSantis hasn’t officially announced that he’ll challenge Trump for the GOP nomination, he has captured the heart of many Republicans who want a more polished version of Trump’s gleeful denigration of minorities\n\nSo the gop just wants a shinier turd", ">\n\nFor some voters, they'll vote for anything if it's shiny enough.", ">\n\nAnd turdy enough.", ">\n\nI've been hoping for open warfare between Trump and the 'mainstream' GOP since 2015.", ">\n\nTrump is mainstream GOP now.", ">\n\nEvery time I think the Republicans have hit moral and ethical rock-bottom, they open a trap door.", ">\n\nRace to the bottom? Start and Finish lines are in same place now. They've been at the bottom for some time now.", ">\n\nEverything I think they have reached the bottom, they break out the shovels.", ">\n\nThat race is going on forty years now. Where ‘ya been?", ">\n\nthey're already calling for the extermination of transgender people...", ">\n\nThere is no bottom with them." ]

[ "Though DeSantis hasn’t officially announced that he’ll challenge Trump for the GOP nomination, he has captured the heart of many Republicans who want a more polished version of Trump’s gleeful denigration of minorities\n\nSo the gop just wants a shinier turd", ">\n\nFor some voters, they'll vote for anything if it's shiny enough.", ">\n\nAnd turdy enough.", ">\n\nI've been hoping for open warfare between Trump and the 'mainstream' GOP since 2015.", ">\n\nTrump is mainstream GOP now.", ">\n\nEvery time I think the Republicans have hit moral and ethical rock-bottom, they open a trap door.", ">\n\nRace to the bottom? Start and Finish lines are in same place now. They've been at the bottom for some time now.", ">\n\nEverything I think they have reached the bottom, they break out the shovels.", ">\n\nThat race is going on forty years now. Where ‘ya been?", ">\n\nthey're already calling for the extermination of transgender people...", ">\n\nThere is no bottom with them.", ">\n\nI don’t understand why any Republican would vote for either of these idiots. The only reason to do so is to own the libs. Beyond that, what are these guys doing to make life better and easier for the country??" ]

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[ "Maker Phantom with KTT Halu Halo switches and Maxkey Foundation SA keycaps." ]

[ "Maker Phantom with KTT Halu Halo switches and Maxkey Foundation SA keycaps.", ">\n\nLoving the blue on those caps" ]

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[ "Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at military jeeps as they rumbled down the camp streets, while some gunmen opened fire. The Israeli military fired back, wounding six, none critically, the Palestinian Health Ministry said." ]

[ "Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at military jeeps as they rumbled down the camp streets, while some gunmen opened fire. The Israeli military fired back, wounding six, none critically, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.", ">\n\nMore like IDF attacked with rocks and explosives and are forced to defend themselves?" ]

[ "Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at military jeeps as they rumbled down the camp streets, while some gunmen opened fire. The Israeli military fired back, wounding six, none critically, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.", ">\n\nMore like IDF attacked with rocks and explosives and are forced to defend themselves?", ">\n\nIDF has no right to enter the West Bank, and everyone in the West Bank or Gaza has the right to attack them when they do. They were only defending their new homes from those who stole their old homes." ]

[ "Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at military jeeps as they rumbled down the camp streets, while some gunmen opened fire. The Israeli military fired back, wounding six, none critically, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.", ">\n\nMore like IDF attacked with rocks and explosives and are forced to defend themselves?", ">\n\nIDF has no right to enter the West Bank, and everyone in the West Bank or Gaza has the right to attack them when they do. They were only defending their new homes from those who stole their old homes.", ">\n\nThe Palestinians were only defending a terrorist, trying to prevent his apprehension. \nIsrael would love to not need to chase after terrorists. If only there was no palesteinian terrorism, or if Abbas would actually try to deal with the terrorists emanating from land he supposedly controls. (although I suppose his legitimacy is questionable, as he is now in the 19th year of a 4 year term as president)" ]

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[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight.." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house..." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!", ">\n\nHow do you capture it?" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!", ">\n\nHow do you capture it?", ">\n\nBy letting the air out of it... Maybe with a bullet or something similar. They might need to use a plane or something to get up that high though." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!", ">\n\nHow do you capture it?", ">\n\nBy letting the air out of it... Maybe with a bullet or something similar. They might need to use a plane or something to get up that high though.", ">\n\nif they shot it it would have just popped from the pressure differential and free fell to terminal velocity." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!", ">\n\nHow do you capture it?", ">\n\nBy letting the air out of it... Maybe with a bullet or something similar. They might need to use a plane or something to get up that high though.", ">\n\nif they shot it it would have just popped from the pressure differential and free fell to terminal velocity.", ">\n\ntime to call in the Kingsman" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!", ">\n\nHow do you capture it?", ">\n\nBy letting the air out of it... Maybe with a bullet or something similar. They might need to use a plane or something to get up that high though.", ">\n\nif they shot it it would have just popped from the pressure differential and free fell to terminal velocity.", ">\n\ntime to call in the Kingsman", ">\n\nNow China would fly the balloon towards Pacific." ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!", ">\n\nHow do you capture it?", ">\n\nBy letting the air out of it... Maybe with a bullet or something similar. They might need to use a plane or something to get up that high though.", ">\n\nif they shot it it would have just popped from the pressure differential and free fell to terminal velocity.", ">\n\ntime to call in the Kingsman", ">\n\nNow China would fly the balloon towards Pacific.", ">\n\nThere are jets Circling it so…I think they’ve made that decision.\nSource: everybody I know who is in Tabor City to Murrel’s Inlet on Facebook" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!", ">\n\nHow do you capture it?", ">\n\nBy letting the air out of it... Maybe with a bullet or something similar. They might need to use a plane or something to get up that high though.", ">\n\nif they shot it it would have just popped from the pressure differential and free fell to terminal velocity.", ">\n\ntime to call in the Kingsman", ">\n\nNow China would fly the balloon towards Pacific.", ">\n\nThere are jets Circling it so…I think they’ve made that decision.\nSource: everybody I know who is in Tabor City to Murrel’s Inlet on Facebook", ">\n\nIt's already been shot down" ]

[ "POTUS just gave the order to shoot it down over Myrtle Beach", ">\n\nLooks like the scrappers will be eating steak tonight..", ">\n\nIts been shot down just right now", ">\n\nI'm in Myrtle Beach right now. Looks like the live shot is over at the beach on the Golden Mile area up near 63rd Ave. 2 jets took off this morning. Edit: above my house now near Back Gate old myrtle beach airforce base. Jets are doing circles and climbing. Edit. I saw them shoot it out my back patio!!! Edit: I've got video!!Edit: someone tell me how to post it? Edit: I'm just going to feed the cats and have some tea. Thanks for bring here for me. Bye, y'all.", ">\n\nPost it bro", ">\n\nIma try, gotta calm down. It is shaking shit quality!", ">\n\nDoesn’t matter if it’s potato lol you got a historic moment and that’s awesome.", ">\n\nYeah now post it so we can all complain about the cameraman", ">\n\nSome of the posts in this thread are good comedy. I can tell there are a lot of people on this sub who never lived during the cold war. Some are predicting WW3 over the potential downing of this balloon, or scared that the Chinese now know where nuclear missile silos are, even though they could just look that up on the Internet because the people who live near them know they are there, so it's hardly a secret.\nI realize being young means less life experience but people at any age above probably 5 can use critical thinking skills before posting dumb crap on the Internet.", ">\n\nMissile silos are also not a secret because of START and new-START. Basically, all ICBMS are inventoried and given to the Russians and we inform them ahead of time if we're going to move anything or do any testing or replacing. It's important so they don't freak out if their satellites detect movement.", ">\n\nThey also aren't even remotely camouflaged here in the states....\nIE, some are literally labeled on Google Earth.\nYou can also clearly see the silo, not exactly secret.\nHeck, if you visit Minuteman Missile National Historical Park you can even take pictures of silos.", ">\n\nMinuteman is a super cool tour, and it's right by Badlands National Park too, so worth a stop if you're passing through. Easy to miss both, though, as Wall Drug would like you to believe it's the premier attraction in the area.", ">\n\nWall Drug was uh, a decent place to stop for a drink/eat but not worth seeing on its own. Badlands and the missile silos were cool though.", ">\n\nProb gathered what they could and now the military says its fine to shoot down. Still find it funny the folks trying to say Biden wont shoot it down when all the reporting has stated the military was the one telling Biden to not shoot it down originally.", ">\n\nPeople are dumb and think President just does what he wants…oh yeah they used to trump…", ">\n\nRepublicans just like to blame everything on Biden and twist every event into some way to criticize him.", ">\n\nIf he shot it down, the story would be that Biden is scared of a balloon like a little weenie and why is he so weak and scared? \nThe only thing that matters to them is \"whatever Biden does is wrong\" and they'll figure out why afterward.", ">\n\nYeah and I love how they blame him for inflation even though that’s due to supply chain disruptions from Covid and the war in Ukraine. Also, the market forces of capitalism which gouge prices to take advantage of the situation.\nBut they blame government spending, which is extremely necessary to fix our outdated infrastructure and invest in the future of society.\nOf course, republicans will never let democrats tax the rich to pay for these needs or fix the deficit.", ">\n\nAnd they conveniently forget about the trade tariffs Trump imposed on China in 2017", ">\n\nBut it’s been flying thru the clouds. There’s a lot of information stored in clouds.", ">\n\nLmfao God damn that's a good one 💀", ">\n\nwe're tracking it live", ">\n\nOh fun!", ">\n\n80 million+ Americans using Tiktok, but we're this scared of a balloon.", ">\n\nPeople have already accepted our smart phones spy on us, for all kinds of interests. The spy balloon is a brazen airspace violation, which makes it more fascinating.", ">\n\nI'm surprised a fuckin home drone hasn't been out there to stab the damn thing. We're just watching this old as shit balloon with spy equipment just slowly drift across the country in full goddamn view and it has yet to be shot down.", ">\n\nIt’s … really high. Like higher than almost all airplanes can reach. No home drone is getting even 20k ft near it", ">\n\nThe amount of ridiculous suggestions I’ve seen over the past 2 days is truly scarier than any balloon lol.", ">\n\nWhat if we just jump really high and pull it down", ">\n\nAre you not listening? It's really high!!\nWe've already lost dozens to the dark void of space that never came back down.\nJumping. Not even once.", ">\n\nWhat if I bounce off of a trampoline?", ">\n\nBounce of a trampoline while throwing a pin at it REALLY REALLY hard?", ">\n\nIf the balloon is 60000 feet up, math (sqrt 60000 x 1.23) says that the balloon can see 301 miles to the horizon in any direction. That means 301 miles to the north of the flight path and 301 miles to the south of the flight path, so it can also see it for a total swath of 602 miles wide. The US is generally around 1100 miles from north to south, meaning that this balloon is theoretically visible to more than half the country (not necessarily half the eyes). People will get to ask, \"Where were you when the balloon floated by?\"", ">\n\nShoot it down then ban tiktok. Win-win.", ">\n\nI hope they do it carefully, in case a little boy hid in it before it took off from his parent's house...", ">\n\nI'm thinking this is going to be a big fat nothing burger, given a similar balloon is heading over Latin America (not exactly big spy opportunities there). \nBut it gave Fox News something to talk about for a couple of days.", ">\n\nActually, even CNN is all over this too.\nThe only main difference is\nRepublicans - \"Shoot it down\"\nDemocrats - \"Capture it instead\"", ">\n\nThey’re both saying the same things using different words, wowe", ">\n\nLaser! Burn a small hole, so that the balloon falls slowly enough so that we can examine unsmashed instruments.", ">\n\nWhy don't they just bring it down and check the equipment and technology on it... maybe it's useful... maybe it's trash. NORAD been tracking it for 19 days... seems sus.", ">\n\nOh yeah we will just go up there and gently put it on the trailer behind an F-15", ">\n\nI’d be very amused to see China’s reaction if we flew some balloons into their airspace like this. Because I don’t think they would “urge calm”. Pretty sure they would go full Karen and scream about it for months.", ">\n\nThey wouldn't announce it because it would make the government look weak.", ">\n\nJust watched it get shot down on a TikTok live over Coastal Carolina", ">\n\nWho didn't see this as the inevitable outcome?\n\"Nice troll, China. Now, if you want your toy back, go fish the pieces out of the water.\"", ">\n\nHave there been increase in Chinese assertion that it is only a weather balloon and not spy balloon this last 12 hours?", ">\n\nTIKTOK is more scary than the balloon. Tiktok is stored in your personal phones.", ">\n\ndon't be fooled. It's not the privacy issue that's concerning about tiktok. Rather, it's a widespread social media platform that can be weaponized by Xi himself. Its claim to fame is a highly selective profiling algorithm that slices & dices its user base & constantly feeds them specific content. If the CCP wanted they could foment more unrest & division in the US public by promoting alt right conspiratorial clips. Instead of dancey dances of dogs a certain segment would be seeing a constant barrage of angry Karens and Chads brandishing their AR15's and complaining about the Libs & Biden.", ">\n\nIf they can shoot it down precisely enough to hit a 12-mile long strip of ocean, why can’t they just shoot it down over farming fields in the Midwest? This makes no sense and we clearly are not being told everything", ">\n\nYou don’t know where it’s going to land when it starts falling. It won’t just fall straight down, especially not at that altitude.", ">\n\nExactly. So why were they intending to have it fall in a small ocean strip instead of a random field somewhere? Rural America is not dense at all, so they definitely could have shot it down somewhere over there, they just wanted to gather more information about it first.", ">\n\nOmgomgomgomgomfgomfgomgomgomfg guys guys guys balloon update BALLOON UPDATE", ">\n\nCapture it and see what the device really is.\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from merely a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!! I am not educated this way.\nCapture it, open it up and see what Chinese REALLY were capturing instead of destroying it 100%", ">\n\nJust so we’re aware, popping this thing won’t start World War III, right? I know Fascist News is fearmongering the shit out of this, but I figured I’d ask anyway in case this is one of the extremely few times that they’re actually right.", ">\n\nNah. It's in our airspace. We can do whatever we want. And according to China, it's only a weather balloon anyway.", ">\n\nSpreading monkeyebolacovid666 pox", ">\n\nYea this is so important because we totally dont have billion dollar satellites spying on the US.", ">\n\nWe actually have our own spy balloons.", ">\n\nAbsolutely. And what do you think would happen if ours - oops - got caught up in some jet stream and “accidentally “ floated over China?", ">\n\nOur own government spying on us? Totally cool! But China? No that’s BAD!", ">\n\nAgree but that doesn’t answer my question.", ">\n\nWe overreact to everything", ">\n\nManufacturing consent machine goes brrrrrr.", ">\n\nThe balloon is just a misdirection tactic. The real threat we didn't discover yet. removes tinfoil hat", ">\n\nBalloon is shot down and coast guard goes to examine it at sea. Cthulhu rips away remnants of the balloon and swallows the ships entirely. Cthulhu speeds towards land... we are all doomed. It was meth for Cthulhu he ordered that we just gave him. The Chinese played us perfectly", ">\n\nCan someone explain to me - Did the chinese not think the US would notice? Or were they just like \"heck it, we already got the footage\"?", ">\n\nChina is like a little kid saying “can’t touch me can’t touch me!”", ">\n\nSo after a Spy balloon with unknown capabilities has fully traversed the country they're going to shoot it down over the ocean. Why bother now.", ">\n\nSo…. After they get everything they want?", ">\n\nChina gets far more from Tiktok than they do from this", ">\n\nDid someone finally tell Joe about this?", ">\n\nThe US knew about the balloon pretty much immediately, but the military advised against blowing it up over land due to a massive potential range for debris. \nSome people make decisions based on information rather than emotion.", ">\n\nGet out of here with your rational thinking. There are people needing to lash out at Biden and insist they can shoot down something that is higher than an airplane.", ">\n\nWhy not? Once it's over the sea, it's already transmitted all of the useful info it gathered.", ">\n\nIt just got shot where’s the video??", ">\n\nThat’s great thanks. Now to recovery mode!!", ">\n\nGenuinely curious. Where are we going to draw the line between spy balloons and spy satellites? How do we respond when they send a missile to down one of ours?", ">\n\nTo be a smartass: The Karman Line.\nSeriously though, pretty much every nation has accepted that space is open, you can't not fly over countries when in orbit around a spinning ball. Plus, space debris is a serious issue if you want to send things or people to space.", ">\n\nWow. Congrats on shooting it down after it traversed the entire country.", ">\n\nWHY not capture it instead and see what the content REALLY is??\nCAN'T fucking believe people are accepting of 'Truth' only from a 'suspicion,' and not of physical evidence!!", ">\n\nHow do you capture it?", ">\n\nBy letting the air out of it... Maybe with a bullet or something similar. They might need to use a plane or something to get up that high though.", ">\n\nif they shot it it would have just popped from the pressure differential and free fell to terminal velocity.", ">\n\ntime to call in the Kingsman", ">\n\nNow China would fly the balloon towards Pacific.", ">\n\nThere are jets Circling it so…I think they’ve made that decision.\nSource: everybody I know who is in Tabor City to Murrel’s Inlet on Facebook", ">\n\nIt's already been shot down", ">\n\nYep. I’m enjoying all the videos I’m now seeing if people arguing about how long it’s going to take to hit the ocean." ]