> "We're past fear now" Edition
Ty, baker.
Happy "Can't wait to get off the phone" Friday!
> Million Pound Banknote
Haven't seen the Simpson's episode, but I'm guessing it's a ripoff of something older.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/mark-twains-the-million-pound-bank-note-summary-and-analysis.html
> Not a false flag
How did they deploy the balloon into CONUS so easily? It just popped-up out of nowhere?
Hope a planefag can back me on this, but sending a balloon on air currents across the Pole or the Pacific is not a predictable or controllable stratagem.
> Distraction?
Maybe not. It could also be a tell. The Chicoms are using balloons now, amateurishly, because why? Can't afford satellites? Trying to do something other than surveillance? Dunno. But I don't see an antenna array hanging from that balloon.
Need to find a good photo of the balloon that's not 'shoppped-up…
> Political shenanigans
And this, my fren, is what the balloon is all about. Now that the Chicoms have "invaded" US airspace, it provides cover to diplomatic fallout.
It's a shill to go to war with Chyna.
How the hell did the balloon get to the middle of the continental US? It's a balloon, not a powered craft.
> Dispersion at high-altitudes.
It doesn't work, not only because of the area over which the agent is spread, but also because UV light will tend to destroy most pathogens. Balloons are not a good weapons deployment platform.
Tracking it might not be easy because it probably doesn't have a transponder. You'd need active radar to track it, and I don't know if any of our PF frens have access to that kind of data.
> Image from PF fren
I'm not sure that's radar, is it? If it has a callsign, ,and is being tracked via ADS-B, isn't that a transponder? Is our PF fren telling us that the Chicom balloon has a radio transponder and a callsign? I'm not sure that's right.