02-04-2023, 04:36 PM | #51 |
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02-04-2023, 04:40 PM | #52 |
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Its at a higher ceiling than aircraft can fly specially fighters. The last plane that flew at altitudes above 60k feet was the SR71 . They may have planes that fly that altitude at the moment in the military but most likely unarmed reconnaissance planes . The Raptor 22 has a curling of 65k but has to be in a vertical climb . Options were limited
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02-04-2023, 04:54 PM | #53 |
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02-04-2023, 05:26 PM | #54 |
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The entire scenario of the handling of this is just embarrassing to all Americans. We will never learn the truth .
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02-04-2023, 05:50 PM | #55 |
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Just read it was decending and the FAA had to divert commercial flights . May have been taken out by an F22 .
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02-04-2023, 06:58 PM | #56 |
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I decided to stay in my corner and be quiet on this one.
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02-04-2023, 07:17 PM | #57 |
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02-04-2023, 07:40 PM | #58 |
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Shoulda just sent lawnchair Larry up after it with a bb gun..
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02-04-2023, 07:41 PM | #59 |
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21 more months to fix this
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02-04-2023, 07:44 PM | #60 |
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They sent the spy ballon to see how we were getting all there Chinese junk they send us to fit on our trucks.
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02-04-2023, 08:42 PM | #61 |
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Biden called Xi and asked permission to shoot the balloon down. He's gonna need to borrow a few more trillion from China to kill more russians.
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02-04-2023, 08:49 PM | #62 |
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The reason it wasn't shot down earlier was because the check from China cleared the Big Guys bank account. Now that it made it completely across the US it could be shot down. I live a quarter mile from the air force base and can't have any structures or even a flag pole over 20 foot tall but China can spy and it's no big deal..
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02-04-2023, 09:25 PM | #64 |
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I was just told by the wife that in Idaho Falls , that some people have have reported a UFO in the sky doing odd htings ,, now the question is ,,what did that Balloon leave behind when leaving our air space ...
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02-04-2023, 10:49 PM | #65 |
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They need to quit smoking that "Idaho Green" skunkweed, imo.
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02-04-2023, 11:16 PM | #66 |
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02-04-2023, 11:17 PM | #67 |
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Now let me see, what was network news talking about before this? I was distracted by all this barroon business.
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02-04-2023, 11:35 PM | #68 |
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Something about Tom Brady I believe.
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02-04-2023, 11:54 PM | #70 |
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I've mostly ignored the news on this but it seems odd that even w/o knocking it down, they couldn't disable the equipment hanging under it. I read that the payload had bits the size of a bus.
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02-05-2023, 12:03 AM | #71 |
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Good question Larry, I haven’t checked in on TV since directv dropped newsmax.
I added more but I think I’ll just check into dales corner for a few minutes.
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02-05-2023, 02:39 AM | #72 |
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They shot it down , Saturday Night Live already did a spoof on it. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/sat...al-1235512993/
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Scary thing is the current administration let it float around for so long. Many things going on the USA now are unbelievable.
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Biden just shot it down because he thought it was full of Viagra and he wanted some.
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