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Don Jr, who's totally gone hunting with rifles that weren't loaded and prepared by someone else in a location where the animals totally weren't trapped in there so rich guys could get their trophy photos, thinks people should shoot the balloon several miles up in the sky with their guns.
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Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
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Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
...but by not shooting it down XIDEN is kowtowing to China!!1!1!! ;-)
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Originally posted by unofan View Post
The resident derps on my Facebook feed honestly believe that. Sadly one is a former full time national guard member. Guess I know why he never moved up the ranks beyond a mid level NCO.Cornell University
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Shooting it down just causes more problems. If we shoot it down we 1) have to clear the potential crash site to prevent harm to residents and 2) figure out what we can do with a giant pile of scrap.
In flight and active, the baloon is more useful to US intelligence sources. What radio frequency/ies it uses to talk back home (if it does), content of the data transmitted, how the gondola is assembled, what's visible in the gondola, etc. We shoot it down and it crashes, we have a giant pile of almost-space junk and no discernable way of telling what it did.
Also, it opens up a whole new ethics question when we go spying in other non-hostile nations with drones, planes, and yes, even balloons (I can't find the link now, but the Pentagon budge last year asked for an increase in their balloon surveillance budget), are those nation's free to shoot our **** out of the sky for funsies? I'm pretty sure the spy community are like Pirates in that they have their own code of ethics they'll follow. And it knowingly goes back decades to where even hostile nations knew the other was spying and kinda-sorta allowed it (to a certain degree).
What is absolutely p*ssing me off about this story are the Meal Team Six / Gravy Seal cosplayers who think they can take their Smith and Wesson M&P15, point it skyward, and think they can shoot down this baloon.
This blimp is floating at 11 miles in the air. An AR15 weapon's effective range is 500 *yards* or 0.28 miles. The baloon is almost 40 times the distance an AR could shoot.“Demolish the bridges behind you… then there is no choice but to build again.”
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Sounds like it has about 20 minutes left.
Is this the first time we have taken military action against the Chinese since we blew up their embassy in Baghdad in the 90’s?Originally posted by BobbyBrady
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They passed through Kansas City thru the Carolinas, so they're really investigating BBQ"I went over the facts in my head, and admired how much uglier the situation had just become. Over the years I've learned that ignorance is more than just bliss. It's freaking orgasmic ecstasy".- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
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First (public) F-22 Air to Air kill, but it made George Santos a Triple Ace."I went over the facts in my head, and admired how much uglier the situation had just become. Over the years I've learned that ignorance is more than just bliss. It's freaking orgasmic ecstasy".- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites
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Originally posted by Swansong View PostI haven't seen the right wing get this agitated since an M&M became less ****.
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When's the last time something foreign was shot down over the US by the military?Code:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
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