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US is monitoring Chinese spy balloon that has been floating over Montana for the past several days

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February 03, 2023, 09:01 AM
MikeinNC
US is monitoring Chinese spy balloon that has been floating over Montana for the past several days
It would be a great way to slow walk an EMP into the US. If the CCP sent a missile to EMP us, it would obviously be shot down…slow walk one into the US and then set it off where it hurt us the most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After
In the book One Second After the writer explores how the North Koreans detonated a nuke in the atmosphere to EMP attack the US and how it would affect us. As told in the sleepy town Of Black Mountain NC.

Our “leaders” should have already thought of the worst case scenarios and acted appropriately by shooting it down. Like the boss said. Once it’s on the ground it shouldn’t be hard to figure out what it was up to.



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February 03, 2023, 09:02 AM
erj_pilot
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Do you think this might have been a wake-up call for the politically indifferent among us?
Concur, buuuuuuuutt…………the “politically indifferent” among us are too ignorant to realize they’re politically indifferent. IOW, “they don’t know that they don’t know”; the most dangerous of human being. JMHO, of course…

Meanwhile, at my overnight hotel in Philly, there’s a DNC convention/meeting going on this weekend. I am ab-so-friggin-LUTE-ly suppressing the urge to trot downstairs and yell:

LET’S
GO
BRANDON
FUCK
JOE
BIDEN!



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February 03, 2023, 09:13 AM
tigereye313
quote:
Originally posted by MikeinNC:
It would be a great way to slow walk an EMP into the US. If the CCP sent a missile to EMP us, it would obviously be shot down…slow walk one into the US and then set it off where it hurt us the most.



Hard to argue.




February 03, 2023, 09:13 AM
Sig2340
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
quote:
Originally posted by Ronin1069:
Man this story sound familiar. Real or maybe from a movie?
Perhaps you are recalling Japanese actions during WWII, when they sent balloons that reached the western half of the United States.

They sent balloons carrying containers filled with millions upon millons of fleas infected with bubonic plague (or anthrax, I can't recall).

They also managed to kill a half dozen American civilians by dropping a bomb from one of these balloons.


The Japanese balloons that reached the US carried incendiaries.

The dropping of fleas infected with bubonic plague (among other things) occurred in China and was performed using aircraft. This was part of Unit 741's crimes against humanity.


This ChiCom balloon should have been shot down when it entered our air defense zone.





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February 03, 2023, 09:17 AM
parabellum
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
The Chinese are terrible liars.
Especially when they're telling the truth.
February 03, 2023, 09:23 AM
SIGnified
quote:
Originally posted by tigereye313:
quote:
Originally posted by MikeinNC:
It would be a great way to slow walk an EMP into the US. If the CCP sent a missile to EMP us, it would obviously be shot down…slow walk one into the US and then set it off where it hurt us the most.



Hard to argue.


Easy to argue

You would have to power it … And the power source would be identifiable from a distance. We would know.





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February 03, 2023, 09:36 AM
Johnny 3eagles
Airborne cash delivery to a house in Delaware?



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February 03, 2023, 09:37 AM
tigereye313
quote:
Originally posted by SIGnified:

Easy to argue

You would have to power it … And the power source would be identifiable from a distance. We would know.


It is possible to detect a nuclear device from that distance?




February 03, 2023, 09:51 AM
parabellum
A nuclear device?
February 03, 2023, 09:52 AM
SIGnified
quote:
Originally posted by tigereye313:
quote:
Originally posted by SIGnified:

Easy to argue

You would have to power it … And the power source would be identifiable from a distance. We would know.


It is possible to detect a nuclear device from that distance?


Yes. Can tell a lot more than that too. Wink





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February 03, 2023, 09:56 AM
lastmanstanding
The Chinese have much more to gain by keeping the United States just as it is politically fucked up in all it's glory rather than to destroy it with a nuke or EMP or anything else.

We might be fucked up but the saying when the United States coughs the world catches a cold still holds true imo. I don't see any gain for any country to turn the U.S. into a post apocalyptic terrain.


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February 03, 2023, 10:03 AM
tigereye313
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
A nuclear device?


Yes sir, as a means to produce an emp. Hypothetical for a future scenario for sake of this discussion.




February 03, 2023, 10:03 AM
Ronin1069
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
quote:
Originally posted by Ronin1069:
Man this story sound familiar. Real or maybe from a movie?
Perhaps you are recalling Japanese actions during WWII, when they sent balloons that reached the western half of the United States.

They sent balloons carrying containers filled with millions upon millons of fleas infected with bubonic plague (or anthrax, I can't recall).

They also managed to kill a half dozen American civilians by dropping a bomb from one of these balloons.


Wow. I was not aware of that and I like to think I’m pretty up on my WW2 history; I’m going to read up.

I think what I am looking for is a clip from an episode of Star Trek. I posted in the lair so as not to district from the thread.


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February 03, 2023, 10:03 AM
tigereye313
quote:
Originally posted by SIGnified:

Yes. Can tell a lot more than that too. Wink


OK, will research more.




February 03, 2023, 10:16 AM
TMats
I didn’t read through all the posts, but…I assume the question has been asked:

Why is a “Chinese Spy Balloon” still flying over the U.S.?


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February 03, 2023, 10:21 AM
Sig2340
quote:
Originally posted by Ronin1069:
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
quote:
Originally posted by Ronin1069:
Man this story sound familiar. Real or maybe from a movie?
Perhaps you are recalling Japanese actions during WWII, when they sent balloons that reached the western half of the United States.

They sent balloons carrying containers filled with millions upon millons of fleas infected with bubonic plague (or anthrax, I can't recall).

They also managed to kill a half dozen American civilians by dropping a bomb from one of these balloons.


Wow. I was not aware of that and I like to think I’m pretty up on my WW2 history; I’m going to read up.

I think what I am looking for is a clip from an episode of Star Trek. I posted in the lair so as not to district from the thread.


There is a documentary about Unit 741 on YT. I recommend not eating beforehand.





Nice is overrated

"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government."
Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
February 03, 2023, 10:24 AM
Sig2340
I’ve got it!

The balloon is returning classified documents to PedoJoe and his crotch fruit.





Nice is overrated

"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government."
Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
February 03, 2023, 10:24 AM
parabellum
quote:
Originally posted by TMats:
I didn’t read through all the posts, but…I assume the question has been asked:

Why is a “Chinese Spy Balloon” still flying over the U.S.?
Your question suggests that you haven't read anything in this thread, nor have you read any online news articles or tuned in to any cable news channel.
February 03, 2023, 10:31 AM
spunk639
I wonder what the socialist regime to our north and their involvement is?

Hell of a lot easier to launch a balloon from Canada into Montana than from Hong Kong.
February 03, 2023, 10:40 AM
Balzé Halzé
quote:
Originally posted by Sig2340:

There is a documentary about Unit 741 on YT. I recommend not eating beforehand.


I assume you mean Unit 731?


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