IF China Balloon Is Really For Weather

@jj-adams said
The information is there for you to google, help yourself.

@metal-brain said
This is the second time you have copped out. I am now outright calling you a liar.
You have no source of information.

@moonbus said
The Gary Powers incident:

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/u2-incident

https://www.military.com/history/francis-gary-powers-one-man-two-countries.html

@metal-brain said
Post the relevant excerpts.

@metal-brain said


I could have taken it down with a twelve gauge shotgun for a lot less and without destroying the evidence.

@moonbus said
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/02/03/when-weather-balloon-went-rogue-two-decades-ago-fighter-jets-fired-it-couldnt-bring-it-down.html

Here, a summary of the relevant bit for you : in a previous incident, two Canadian fighter jets intercepted and tried and failed to bring down a rogue weather balloon, firing over 1,000 machine gun rounds at it.


Fat chance, you with your shot gun, standing on yer back lawn. 😆

@metal-brain said
And the one spotted above Latin America? Explain that? Is China spying on Latin America? Just how far should the paranoia go? It is very hard for me to believe that China sees Latin America as a threat.

@no1marauder said
Maybe the Chinese are just nosey. 🤔

@metal-brain said
This is the second time you have copped out. I am now outright calling you a liar.
You have no source of information.

@jj-adams said
Even after Marauder posted this for you?
So typical of your sort to call someone a liar after they were proven wrong.
"Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union 60 years ago today on May 1, 1960. His U-2 spy plane was hit by an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile, one of 14 fired at him as he flew at approximately 70,500 ft. over Sverdlovsk. "

https://theaviationist.com/2020/05/01/shot-down-60-years-ago-today-we-visit-gary-powers-u-2-in-moscow-now/

@no1marauder
I was just wondering about something. How can that equipment hanging from the bottom of that balloon stay still enough to take pictures at the right places? You would think it would rock back and forth and maybe even spin around while being pushed in the jet stream.

@metal-brain said
I didn't call no1 a liar. He posted his source. You didn't.

@jj-adams said
OMG you are hopeless.
Marauder pointed out that what I said was correct, and you called me a liar afterwards.
You had to be trolling at that point.

@metal-brain said
@no1marauder
I was just wondering about something. How can that equipment hanging from the bottom of that balloon stay still enough to take pictures at the right places? You would think it would rock back and forth and maybe even spin around while being pushed in the jet stream.

@moonbus said
Ever hear of shutter speed? 1/1000 of a second exposure will cancel out the motion of a balloon in flight.