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@metal-brain saidThe Gary Powers incident:
This is the second time you have copped out. I am now outright calling you a liar.
You have no source of information.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/u2-incident
https://www.military.com/history/francis-gary-powers-one-man-two-countries.html
05 Feb 23
@moonbus saidPost the relevant excerpts.
The Gary Powers incident:
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/u2-incident
https://www.military.com/history/francis-gary-powers-one-man-two-countries.html
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@metal-brain saidhttps://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/02/03/when-weather-balloon-went-rogue-two-decades-ago-fighter-jets-fired-it-couldnt-bring-it-down.html
I could have taken it down with a twelve gauge shotgun for a lot less and without destroying the evidence.
Here, a summary of the relevant bit for you : in a previous incident, two Canadian fighter jets intercepted and tried and failed to bring down a rogue weather balloon, firing over 1,000 machine gun rounds at it.
Fat chance, you with your shot gun, standing on yer back lawn. 😆
05 Feb 23
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@moonbus saidAnd the one spotted above Latin America? Explain that? Is China spying on Latin America? Just how far should the paranoia go? It is very hard for me to believe that China sees Latin America as a threat.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/02/03/when-weather-balloon-went-rogue-two-decades-ago-fighter-jets-fired-it-couldnt-bring-it-down.html
Here, a summary of the relevant bit for you : in a previous incident, two Canadian fighter jets intercepted and tried and failed to bring down a rogue weather balloon, firing over 1,000 machine gun rounds at it.
Fat chance, you with your shot gun, standing on yer back lawn. 😆
05 Feb 23
@metal-brain saidMaybe the Chinese are just nosey. 🤔
And the one spotted above Latin America? Explain that? Is China spying on Latin America? Just how far should the paranoia go? It is very hard for me to believe that China sees Latin America as a threat.
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@no1marauder saidMaybe. They would not be the first to be nosey.
Maybe the Chinese are just nosey. 🤔
Remember when there was a mysterious crash on the moon and nobody admitted it was theirs? The head NASA guy got all paranoid China was doing something in secret on the far side of the moon and literally accused China of trying to take over the moon. So the NASA sent a space craft to orbit the moon and see what may or may not be going on there by China.
No word on anything China is doing on the moon yet. Unjustified paranoia?
https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/science/who-crashed-on-the-moon.193716
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05 Feb 23
@metal-brain saidEven after Marauder posted this for you?
This is the second time you have copped out. I am now outright calling you a liar.
You have no source of information.
So typical of your sort to call someone a liar after they were proven wrong.
"Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union 60 years ago today on May 1, 1960. His U-2 spy plane was hit by an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile, one of 14 fired at him as he flew at approximately 70,500 ft. over Sverdlovsk. "
https://theaviationist.com/2020/05/01/shot-down-60-years-ago-today-we-visit-gary-powers-u-2-in-moscow-now/
05 Feb 23
@jj-adams saidI didn't call no1 a liar. He posted his source. You didn't.
Even after Marauder posted this for you?
So typical of your sort to call someone a liar after they were proven wrong.
"Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union 60 years ago today on May 1, 1960. His U-2 spy plane was hit by an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile, one of 14 fired at him as he flew at approximately 70,500 ft. over Sverdlovsk. "
https://theaviationist.com/2020/05/01/shot-down-60-years-ago-today-we-visit-gary-powers-u-2-in-moscow-now/
05 Feb 23
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I was just wondering about something. How can that equipment hanging from the bottom of that balloon stay still enough to take pictures at the right places? You would think it would rock back and forth and maybe even spin around while being pushed in the jet stream.
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05 Feb 23
@metal-brain saidOMG you are hopeless.
I didn't call no1 a liar. He posted his source. You didn't.
Marauder pointed out that what I said was correct, and you called me a liar afterwards.
You had to be trolling at that point.
05 Feb 23
@jj-adams saidNo, I called you a liar before he posted that. You refused to post your source twice in a row. no1 did what you failed to do.
OMG you are hopeless.
Marauder pointed out that what I said was correct, and you called me a liar afterwards.
You had to be trolling at that point.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-spy-balloon-story-manufactured-crisis-alternative-reading
The Pentagon itself said that “the payload wouldn’t offer much in the way of surveillance that China couldn’t collect through spy satellites” and that “the balloon posed no serious physical or intelligence threat”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/03/how-spy-balloons-work/
05 Feb 23
@metal-brain saidEver hear of shutter speed? 1/1000 of a second exposure will cancel out the motion of a balloon in flight.
@no1marauder
I was just wondering about something. How can that equipment hanging from the bottom of that balloon stay still enough to take pictures at the right places? You would think it would rock back and forth and maybe even spin around while being pushed in the jet stream.
05 Feb 23
@moonbus saidNo, I have not. What is your source of information?
Ever hear of shutter speed? 1/1000 of a second exposure will cancel out the motion of a balloon in flight.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-spy-balloon-story-manufactured-crisis-alternative-reading
The Pentagon itself said that “the payload wouldn’t offer much in the way of surveillance that China couldn’t collect through spy satellites” and that “the balloon posed no serious physical or intelligence threat”.