Reacher Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 As of Fri night the balloon was near Scott Air Force base and St Louis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 3 minutes ago, Reacher said: As of Fri night the balloon was near Scott Air Force base and St Louis My oldest daughter works there (was born there too)and lives in the area. To dark to see I suppose... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 Supposedly there is another balloon over Latin America??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWB Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 8 hours ago, Reacher said: I can't believe the air force doesn't have a way to get this down. Is it too high for a helicopter? I guess helicopters go to about 25,000 feet. Snag it with an airplane? Launch our own hot air balloon? Think its dangerous to just let it go. The President is blocking the order to shoot it down, or capture it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWB Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Drroogh said: Supposedly there is another balloon over Latin America??? It went off course....lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 I remember when a Chinese fighter intercepted and "collided" with a US spy plane in international waters forcing it to land in China. They then captured and interrogated the crew after stealing the plane. They eventually gave it back but not after they got the Intel they needed I'm sure. But we let a balloon that should be sitting at the bottom of the pacific just traverse the continent. Our Chinese owned government is pathetic. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 23 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said: I remember when a Chinese fighter intercepted and "collided" with a US spy plane in international waters forcing it to land in China. They then captured and interrogated the crew after stealing the plane. They eventually gave it back but not after they got the Intel they needed I'm sure. But we let a balloon that should be sitting at the bottom of the pacific just traverse the continent. Our Chinese owned government is pathetic. Don’t forget the USS Pueblo. I know that was N Korea, but if you think the Chinese didn’t learned from that? well I don’t know what to say! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Hoopsier Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 21 hours ago, Reacher said: In other news... Anybody missing theirs? Holy crap. I saw that pic and thought it looked familiar. Upon research, it is at the corner of Navco Rd and McVay Dr. My Bama house is just 1/4 mile around the corner. I drive through that intersection all the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 1 minute ago, Joe_Hoopsier said: Holy crap. I saw that pic and thought it looked familiar. Upon research, it is at the corner of Navco Rd and McVay Dr. My Bama house is just 1/4 mile around the corner. I drive through that intersection all the time. Where were you on or about Feb 1st? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 Are we sure this isn't a Chinese spy penis? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Hoopsier Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 2 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said: Where were you on or about Feb 1st? HAHAHA Safely cold in Indiana! Heck it's cold enough that mine is shrunk up so tight that ain't nothing knocking it off either! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostin76 Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 18 hours ago, mrflynn03 said: Geez, I get the networks do this to sell outrage and make money but they wouldn't do this if the public didn't eat it up. I haven't intentionally watched news in years. Just a random YouTube clip and article here and there. Seems people have lost the art of simply.....ignoring things. The plastic mini m&m tube are handy storage containers. It’s insane. What they will grab onto to generate fake outrage. Have to keep us outraged over little things like this so we don’t notice them messing with actual things that will impact us all. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacher Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 40 minutes ago, Joe_Hoopsier said: Holy crap. I saw that pic and thought it looked familiar. Upon research, it is at the corner of Navco Rd and McVay Dr. My Bama house is just 1/4 mile around the corner. I drive through that intersection all the time. Small world. One of your neighbors must be hurting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 15 minutes ago, Reacher said: Small world. One of your neighbors must be hurting. Wonder what the Alabama bathroom rules are for that? 😁 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 It looks like the errant wang had previously been attached to a motorcyle rider who was involved in an accident. Shouldn't be to hard to piece this mystery together. RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 3 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said: It looks like the errant wang had previously been attached to a motorcyle rider who was involved in an accident. Shouldn't be to hard to piece this mystery together. RIP Fell off a truck getting gas according to surveillance footage... Oy 😪 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 5 minutes ago, IUFLA said: Fell off a truck getting gas according to surveillance footage... Oy 😪 One more reason I won’t be getting a motorcycle license, even though the different path in me wants to. Seen the aftermath of motorcycle accidents more than I would’ve liked to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Hoopsier Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 47 minutes ago, Drroogh said: One more reason I won’t be getting a motorcycle license, even though the different path in me wants to. Seen the aftermath of motorcycle accidents more than I would’ve liked to. Have you ever seen someone step in front of a bus? trip going down stairs? Fall asleep next to Lorannia Bobbit? Riding a Bike danger ranks way below being married. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 (edited) 32 minutes ago, Joe_Hoopsier said: Have you ever seen someone step in front of a bus? trip going down stairs? Fall asleep next to Lorannia Bobbit? Riding a Bike danger ranks way below being married. Worst I ever saw, sitting on the finish line at the Indy 500 73 that got stopped after the Salt Walther crash and then didn’t start again until the rain stopped. (That’s how I got the finish line seat) Saw Swede Savage crash into the inner wall coming out of turn 4 and then witnessed his crewman tumbling down pit road like a raggedy Anne doll after he got hit by the emergency truck! But you are right, knowing several people in law enforcement, I know that responding to a domestic dispute is the most dangerous of all! Edited February 4, 2023 by Drroogh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 The Latin American one 😁 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacher Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 (edited) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11713943/Fears-grow-China-reach-spy-balloon-wreckage-ahead-Navy.html Was it really necessary to obliterate it? 7 mile debris field? Guess we did not want to analyze it. Should have shot it down before it entered Alaska and done so in a way to preserve it to analyze it. Edited February 5, 2023 by Reacher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 8 minutes ago, Reacher said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11713943/Fears-grow-China-reach-spy-balloon-wreckage-ahead-Navy.html Was it really necessary to obliterate it? 7 mile debris field? Guess we did not want to analyze it. Should have shot it down before it entered Alaska and done so in a way to preserve it to analyze it. Or shot it down over Canada. Like they would do anything to us. The F22 is outfitted with an M61 Vulcan 20mm machine gun. Could have just poked some holes with that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostin76 Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 On 2/3/2023 at 10:17 PM, DWB said: The President is blocking the order to shoot it down, or capture it. Tuesday, Jan. 31 The balloon re-enters the United States over Idaho, to the surprise of officials at Northern Command as well as at the Pentagon. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, alerts President Biden. The president asks for military options, including the immediate destruction of the aircraft. Mr. Biden also orders that no activities or sensitive unencrypted communications would be conducted in the path of the balloon. And then there’s also this: “I told them to shoot it down,” President Biden told reporters in Hagerstown, Md., on his way to Camp David on Saturday afternoon. “They said to me, let’s wait until the safest place to do it.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacher Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 We don't know for sure who said what regarding shooting or not shooting it down. Probably never will. I would hope we were jamming any communications but apparently it was still getting instructions to change its trajectory/ elevation so who knows. I assume we obliterated it out of fear there could have been some weapon on board. For all we know, it could have left a trail of spores all across the country. China learned a lot from this. I hope we have a measured reaction. Ok if we never hear about it. As long as it happens. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 21 minutes ago, Reacher said: We don't know for sure who said what regarding shooting or not shooting it down. Probably never will. I would hope we were jamming any communications but apparently it was still getting instructions to change its trajectory/ elevation so who knows. I assume we obliterated it out of fear there could have been some weapon on board. For all we know, it could have left a trail of spores all across the country. China learned a lot from this. I hope we have a measured reaction. Ok if we never hear about it. As long as it happens. Lets hope the Norks dont order any balloons for weather experiments because now they have a potential delivery system and SOPs on how to use it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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