They shot it down ,,,,,
Watching it falling, now on TV ,,,,,,, Sic-em
Saying now U S missile took it down or fighter plane.
A white ‘contrail’ in the background.
Uncle Joe just said (1.29pm MST), he told the military to shoot it down Wednesday, and the military said to wait until over water.
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Probably the most concerning thing about this whole ordeal is apparently Biden ordered it to be shot down while it was still over Montana, but he was overruled. Now, without getting too political here, just who in our military is overruling the CIC?
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Rocky Raab: 33165078605211/comments/33165169185307
Geez, which way do you want it? Shoot it down or not? And if so, with what if not a missile?
so Rocky what you are saying is that with todays technology, weapon, missles, ect, we have nothing that will bring down a weather balloon where we want, when we want??????????
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allen griggs: 33165078605211/comments/33165211895067
400 feet wide. If it were laying flat, it would be 252,000 sq. ft. Of course it is not flat, so it would exceed 300,000 sq. ft.
vs. a 3 sq. ft. hole.
I see what you mean.
It appears that now they are saying the balloon was about 200 feet in diameter.
Change anyone's mind about the size and weight of the payload.......or the ability to "gun" it down??
Perhaps much of everyone's angst could have been avoided........if it was brought down when it was south of Alaska.
Again......just some $0.02 thoughts.
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No. We did bring it down when and where we wished. With a single shot.
The issue is with the when and where, not the how.
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Search tells me the surface area of a sphere is 4 pi x radius squared.
4 pi = 12.57
A 100-yard radius squared = 10,000
So the surface of a 200-yard diameter balloon (if we assume a near sphere) is 125,700 square yards or 1,131,300 square feet.
Gents, it's gonna take a whole damn buncha little bullet holes to let out much helium.
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Is that apple or cherry pie?
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So, had we filled it up with little bullet holes the moment it enteed US airspace over the Aleutian Islands, it would have glided to a nice soft landing well before it traversed the entire Continental United States avoiding the need for a large scale water retrieval.
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Rocky Raab: 33165078605211/comments/33165196235419
Search tells me the surface area of a sphere is 4 pi x radius squared.
4 pi = 12.57
A 100-yard radius squared = 10,000
So the surface of a 200-yard diameter balloon (if we assume a near sphere) is 125,700 square yards or 1,131,300 square feet.
Gents, it's gonna take a whole damn buncha little bullet holes to let out much helium.
And where did they get that much helium?
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Second most abundant element in the observable universe
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Can't believe this thing is getting so much attention... "Hey kids look at the balloon, pay no attention to whatever else is going on"
I don't care about what size or how many bullets, rockets, etc. it would take, it should have never been allowed to go as far as it did, but why waste a good distraction...
I'm sure tonight we will hear "hey Man I corn-popped that thing to oblivion" well ya'll might I won't be watching the POS give it's state of the union...
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