The Balloon

[Spikey M]

As I'm sure you have all seen, there's a runaway Chinese balloon over Missouri. The Chinese say it's a weather balloon that got caught in a breeze. The yanks say it's a surveillance balloon.

I personally find it a bit hard to believe that the worlds leading surveillance state is sending out fucking balloons to spy on us all. It's a bit 1940's. but who knows?

[Don]

Us? Howdy, yall.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Maybe the Chinese got it at a party and it accidentally got swept away by the wind.

[Yevrah]

Can't the yanks just shoot the fucking thing down to know for sure, or is that against those pesky rules of war?

[Lofty]

As I'm sure you have all seen, there's a runaway Chinese balloon over Missouri. The Chinese say it's a weather balloon that got caught in a breeze. The yanks say it's a surveillance balloon.

I personally find it a bit hard to believe that the worlds leading surveillance state is sending out fucking balloons to spy on us all. It's a bit 1940's. but who knows?


Chinese officials have previously publicly expressed interest in the potential military and intelligence-gathering potential of balloons.

"Technological advances have opened a new door for the use of balloons," an article in the military-run Liberation Army Daily said last year.

That's you told.

[Spikey M]

Can't the yanks just shoot the fucking thing down to know for sure, or is that against those pesky rules of war?

I think they're scared that it's being kept aloft by Ebola.

[Spikey M]

That's you told.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/027/475/Screen_Shot_2018-10-25_at_11.02.15_AM.png

[Lewis]

Apparently they're very hard to shoot down. You can't puncture them effectively and let them slowly glide down because the balloon is sort of slack, so you have to properly blow it up, which would send all the flaming bits flying everywhere. I think the Chinese are just having a lol with it really. They won't be getting anything that they didn't already know or can't get from satellites.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I enjoyed the Chinese line saying that the balloon's use was 'mostly meteorological'.

[Ben]

This feels all a bit convenient from America’s side considering they had a state visit to China coming up. Nobody uses fucking balloons to spy anymore, even if they like to portray China as still third world.

China have just sent it for the lols. If they wanted to actually spy there’s a million better ways.

[niko_cee]

The long awaited sequel to the Sam Neill classic The Dish.

[Spikey M]

Apparently they're very hard to shoot down. You can't puncture them effectively and let them slowly glide down because the balloon is sort of slack, so you have to properly blow it up, which would send all the flaming bits flying everywhere. I think the Chinese are just having a lol with it really. They won't be getting anything that they didn't already know or can't get from satellites.

The worlds most powerful armed forces cucked by a balloon. :harold:

[Shindig]

I was hoping it was a attached to some legend in a deckchair.

[Spikey M]

I wonder how many people have tried to shoot it down.

[Pepe]

What could anyone possibly want to know about Missouri?

[Ben]

I wonder how many people have tried to shoot it down.

https://www.newsweek.com/police-beg-locals-refrain-taking-pot-shots-chinese-spy-balloon-1778936

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64524105

It's down.

[Ben]

Shooting it down after it passes over the ocean when it's not a threat any longer. 'Murica!

[niko_cee]

What an odd spin, should they have tried to land it on one of their citizen's houses?

[Giggles]

Hopefully the intent was to make them look as completely helpless as they currently look.

[Disco]

First recorded air to air kill for the F22 Raptor, really starting to see some return on that $70billion. I desperately hope some pilot is now stencilling a little 'barroon' on his fuselage.

[Shindig]

Born to Kill etched on his helmet, too.

[niko_cee]

Second 'kill', if that's the word for it, feels like the world is teetering towards some sort of apocalyptic event at the moment.

[Yevrah]

Second 'kill', if that's the word for it, feels like the world is teetering towards some sort of apocalyptic event at the moment.

It does, doesn't it.

[Shindig]

It's just posturing. If anything they can be a bit bolder because it's an unmanned ball of hot air.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

But they are womaned.

[Spikey M]

Second 'kill', if that's the word for it, feels like the world is teetering towards some sort of apocalyptic event at the moment.

At present I'm just hoping the inevitable World War we're heading for will happen at some point between me and my son being of conscription age.

[Dark Soldier]

Wouldn't you be disabled with your knees lad? We can sit back with a beer as the nukes go off.

[Spikey M]

Wouldn't you be disabled with your knees lad? We can sit back with a beer as the nukes go off.

My knee has been fine for a while now. I'd have to try and roll it during induction.

[Dquincy]

But they are womaned.
Probably why it got lost.

[niko_cee]

And another one.

What the fuck is going on here? Are we sleep-walking into a conflict with an [advanced] alien race by shooting down all their probes?

[Dquincy]

:uhoh: a fourth one.

https://news.sky.com/story/us-military-shoots-down-another-unidentified-object-12809826

[niko_cee]

It's going to turn out to be the mother of all superbowl halftime show ruses.

[Bernanke]

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[Lofty]

They officially havent ruled aliens out either :D

[John Arne]

Revenge time for my Chinese brethren

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[Spikey M]

It is actually Aliens, isn't it?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1733924/Asteroid-earth-France-English-Channel-Sar2667

[Yevrah]

If China are shooting one down as well I'm going for a Youtube hoax that will end up with the person responsible in more trouble than he could have ever imagined.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64644845

Lol. Time for the climb down.

[Ben]

Shoot now, ask later.

[John Arne]

The back-tracking is superb :D

https://gyazo.com/54b5494177422a6698cb260e8e34438f.jpeg

[niko_cee]

At least China now know how to deplete America's supplies of million dollar missiles.