Guess what weather balloons do? Especially Chinese ones, because they may legitimately be used to enforce emissions stops from factories and need more advanced equipment than strictly meteorological ones. China’s climate is affected so much by human activity that ignoring it would lead to inaccurate forecasting.
Balloons that follow air currents have blown of course more than once, wow that’s sinister. The fact that US reacted in an absolutely deranged fashion to a weather balloon being blown off course is the real story here. It shows the whole world that US is run by a dangerous and unstable regime. The fact that such unhinged lunatics have the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world should worry everyone.
But real weather balloons do not follow air currents. They ascend and descend over the same point, so that they can be easily recovered by real scientists. Real weather balloons are also far smaller. Various scientists, not just Americans, said that the Chinese balloons did not resemble the instruments they use.
You mean, when you’ve been denied access to Western technologies, your technology looks different? No way!
If you copy Western designs, people say you’re building knockoffs. If you don’t, people say you’re building spy craft. Can’t win with these people fr fr
I’m afraid you are the one making things up. The article doesn’t say anything about balloons following air currents, quite the opposite:
That’s because balloons still offer unique advantages: They don’t disturb their surrounding environment, they’re very gentle on scientific instruments, they can hover in one place for extended periods of time
Normal weather balloons are far smaller and incapable of crossing an ocean. The Chinese balloon was not a normal weather balloon.
I’m not sure what you think your point is. There are a lot of types of weather-monitoring balloon systems and China has been dumping a ton of money into improving their forecasting ever since they got slammed by a bunch of flooding.
My point is that balloons are not allowed to enter sovereign airspace without permission. And if they do, they can expect to be intercepted or destroyed.
This is going to blow your mind, but there are different kinds of balloons for different purposes. Also, the word can has a different meaning from the world must. Perhaps work on your reading comprehension?
Sure, it’s possible that China deployed a completely novel type of weather balloon. But if so, it should not be surprised by the interception of its unusual balloon when it entered US airspace.
For that matter, if you designed a brand new weather instrument that was carried in the back of a Cessna, and then you flew that Cessna into Chinese airspace to carry out your measurements, then you should expect to be intercepted and probably arrested. After all, Mathias Rust was sentenced to four years for violating Soviet airspace.
You do realize that control systems aren’t flawless, right? It’s pretty common for balloons to be blown into other countries’ sovereign airspace… It’s just usually not talked about because it’s a non-issue.
And The Guardian referred to it as a spy balloon right in this very article.
Incidentally, the Pentagon said it did not collect information over the US. Perhaps it was intended to collect information elsewhere.
Guess what weather balloons do? Especially Chinese ones, because they may legitimately be used to enforce emissions stops from factories and need more advanced equipment than strictly meteorological ones. China’s climate is affected so much by human activity that ignoring it would lead to inaccurate forecasting.
Weather balloons collect meteorological data.
Spy balloons, like this one, carry equipment for intelligence surveillance, and inconsistent with the equipment onboard weather balloons.
Or the most logical explanation that it’s a weather balloon that blew off course and that US regime has been cynically lying about.
There have been multiple incidents of Chinese balloons that “flew off course” and ended up over sovereign airspace.
If China doesn’t want its balloons destroyed, it will have to do a better job controlling its “research instruments”.
Balloons that follow air currents have blown of course more than once, wow that’s sinister. The fact that US reacted in an absolutely deranged fashion to a weather balloon being blown off course is the real story here. It shows the whole world that US is run by a dangerous and unstable regime. The fact that such unhinged lunatics have the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world should worry everyone.
But real weather balloons do not follow air currents. They ascend and descend over the same point, so that they can be easily recovered by real scientists. Real weather balloons are also far smaller. Various scientists, not just Americans, said that the Chinese balloons did not resemble the instruments they use.
You mean, when you’ve been denied access to Western technologies, your technology looks different? No way!
If you copy Western designs, people say you’re building knockoffs. If you don’t, people say you’re building spy craft. Can’t win with these people fr fr
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No, I mean that when you build something that looks like a spy balloon, other people will think it’s a spy balloon. They might even shoot it down.
Of course they do, there are global air currents that high altitude weather balloons follow. Maybe stop making shit up already?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/world/spy-balloon-science-weather-uses-scn/index.html
I’m afraid you are the one making things up. The article doesn’t say anything about balloons following air currents, quite the opposite:
Normal weather balloons are far smaller and incapable of crossing an ocean. The Chinese balloon was not a normal weather balloon.
I’m not sure what you think your point is. There are a lot of types of weather-monitoring balloon systems and China has been dumping a ton of money into improving their forecasting ever since they got slammed by a bunch of flooding.
My point is that balloons are not allowed to enter sovereign airspace without permission. And if they do, they can expect to be intercepted or destroyed.
This is going to blow your mind, but there are different kinds of balloons for different purposes. Also, the word can has a different meaning from the world must. Perhaps work on your reading comprehension?
Sure, it’s possible that China deployed a completely novel type of weather balloon. But if so, it should not be surprised by the interception of its unusual balloon when it entered US airspace.
For that matter, if you designed a brand new weather instrument that was carried in the back of a Cessna, and then you flew that Cessna into Chinese airspace to carry out your measurements, then you should expect to be intercepted and probably arrested. After all, Mathias Rust was sentenced to four years for violating Soviet airspace.
You do realize that control systems aren’t flawless, right? It’s pretty common for balloons to be blown into other countries’ sovereign airspace… It’s just usually not talked about because it’s a non-issue.