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Topic	Can we get the damn chinese balloon out of our sky?
AwesomeTurtwig 02/05/23 2:43:12 PM #65:	adjl posted... Why would they? There wasn't really reason to be suspicious of it until it started meandering over various inland sites, and shooting something like this down isn't exactly free (both in the simple cost of dispatching a plane and in the diplomatic sense). Correct. It's not over the US until it's like 10 miles off the coast or something like that. At which point it might be too late to fire it down depending on the trajectory. --- Try my game Biologger: https://store.steampowered.com/app/833060/Biologger/ <cite>AwesomeTurtwig posted [p:971344014] in Can we get... [t:80334754]...</cite> <quote>adjl posted... </cite><quote>Why would they? There wasn't really reason to be suspicious of it until it started meandering over various inland sites, and shooting something like this down isn't exactly free (both in the simple cost of dispatching a plane and in the diplomatic sense).</quote>Correct. It's not over the US until it's like 10 miles off the coast or something like that. At which point it might be too late to fire it down depending on the trajectory. --- Try my game Biologger: https://store.steampowered.com/app/833060/Biologger/</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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