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The balloon was apparently 200ft tall, and the missile seemed to hit pretty close to centre of mass or even towards the top. Which would make sense for IR targeting on a balloon at high altitude. The instrumentation was also dangling significant distance below the balloon. Where do you get...

Assuming the salt water got in.

🤨 At what point does not sharing information become treason? There are all sorts of inconsequential details that never get bought to the presidents attention because they're (theoretically) dealing with more important things and the bigger picture. In trumps case specifically, there was also...

That's a blatantly disingenuous comparison. "lay on the ground outside for a few hours"? Yeah, that bit would be fine. They'd do less well with the bit where they slam into the ground from 60,000ft. Should also be noted that the electronics weren't hit with a missile. The balloon was. If the...

Honestly, kinda. Care to share your little wager?

Hell of a lot easier to recover anything meaningful if it lands in water than if it impacts the ground. They didnt exactly shoot it down over the Marianas trench.

Oh, no, in a general sense I expect them to be bumbling at best. But, specifically the armed forces, and when they're specifically responding to a situation that pretty much certainly they've considered in the past and have a plan for, I would expect that they'd be competent enough.

I disagree. As a foreigner, my opinion certainly didn't shift negatively as a result of this. I suspect that's only more true for friendly foreign governments. They showed that they won't take rash and pointless action when there's even a small risk of endangering their populace, and when...

Or... They knew exactly what it was "seeing" and therefore it saw only and exactly what they wanted to show off. After they finished with hand feeding whatever they wanted to China, whilst monitoring how it surveilled and communicated, they shot it down somewhere truly and completely safe and...

Wow... We went from "Biden is a cuck because he won't shoot it down." to "Wow, look at Biden waste money shooting it down for attention." 🙄

Yep, totally no way the present administration would ever take any kind of measures to hurt the Chinese... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/01/chip-war-japan-netherlands-us-tech-export-ban-china-microchips