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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should read the articles before you link to them. This one describes normal weather balloons, which are far smaller than the Chinese balloons and can only travel about 100 miles.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have, the article pretty clearly explains how weather balloons can get caught in air currents. ๐Ÿคก

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And does it explain how air currents can add two thousand pounds of equipment to a balloon?

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does that have to do with anything. Just to repeat this, the context of the whole discussion is that US *admitted that there is no spy equipment on the balloon. The fact that you keep keep digging here is absolutely hilarious. You made an absurd statement that is disproved by 2 seconds of googling. Then you got called out on it, and instead of admitting that you stated nonsense you just keep doubling down. It's absolutely incredible to watch.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

US *admitted that there is no spy equipment on the balloon.

Once again, you are making things up.

The US said the spy balloon was certainly capable of spying, but it did not collect information over the US, in part because of the American response.

"We're aware that it had intelligence collection capabilities, but it was our -- and it has been our -- assessment now that it did not collect while it was transiting the United States," Ryder said during a briefing, adding, "As we said at the time, we also took steps to mitigate the potential collection efforts."

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago