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  • Now China wants to shoot down an American UFO?

    From StarDust@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 12 12:48:54 2023
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/12/china-says-its-preparing-to-shoot-down-unidentified-flying-object-near-yellow-sea/

    Where it's gonna end?
    🤔🤨😱

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to StarDust on Wed Feb 22 06:59:13 2023
    On Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 1:48:56 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:

    Where it's gonna end?

    If any American weather balloons drift off course over China, unlike
    China, the United States will not regard it in the least provocative if
    the Chinese decide to waste some jet fuel shooting down useless
    junk.

    So this will just be an opportunity for the United States to demonstrate
    its superiority, not a provocation that could lead the world closer to
    war.

    John Savard

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to jsavard@ecn.ab.ca on Wed Feb 22 08:10:58 2023
    On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 06:59:13 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
    <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

    On Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 1:48:56 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:

    Where it's gonna end?

    If any American weather balloons drift off course over China, unlike
    China, the United States will not regard it in the least provocative if
    the Chinese decide to waste some jet fuel shooting down useless
    junk.

    So this will just be an opportunity for the United States to demonstrate
    its superiority, not a provocation that could lead the world closer to
    war.

    John Savard

    Of course, the Chinese will claim any such research balloon is a "spy
    balloon".

    Realistically, it is very unlikely for an American weather balloon to
    drift to China, and quite easy for a Chinese one to drift to America.
    Such are the prevailing wind systems.

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  • From Gerald Kelleher@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 22 08:37:42 2023
    Another thing I learned from the Cloudy Nights forum was the participants did not want to know anything about their own subculture and its inner workings. The last thing they cared about was what Newton was attempting to describe to them because the
    verbal descriptions are meant to subdue the visual narratives by a process of bluffing using known astronomical terms but attachiung others like absolute/relative time, space and motion. They don't believe it meant anything so the problem and therefore
    the solution is that it did.

    An astronomy forum dominated by political and balloon discussions is no longer a working forum, however, it is not a monetised/moderated forum either and that is why it is worth saving.

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Wed Feb 22 12:21:33 2023
    On Wednesday, 22 February 2023 at 09:59:15 UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
    On Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 1:48:56 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:

    Where it's gonna end?
    If any American weather balloons drift off course over China, unlike
    China, the United States will not regard it in the least provocative if
    the Chinese decide to waste some jet fuel shooting down useless
    junk.

    So this will just be an opportunity for the United States to demonstrate
    its superiority, not a provocation that could lead the world closer to
    war.

    John Savard

    I think historians of the future would take a dim view of people now if we waged a war over weather balloons.

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 22 16:22:39 2023
    On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:21:33 -0800 (PST), RichA <rander3128@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Wednesday, 22 February 2023 at 09:59:15 UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
    On Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 1:48:56 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:

    Where it's gonna end?
    If any American weather balloons drift off course over China, unlike
    China, the United States will not regard it in the least provocative if
    the Chinese decide to waste some jet fuel shooting down useless
    junk.

    So this will just be an opportunity for the United States to demonstrate
    its superiority, not a provocation that could lead the world closer to
    war.

    John Savard

    I think historians of the future would take a dim view of people now if we waged a war over weather balloons.

    Inaction on climate change? Poverty amidst wealth? Ecological
    destruction? Trumpism?

    I think the historians of the future will be taking a dim view of
    people now regardless of how we deal with balloons. (If there are any historians in a post apocalyptic world.)

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