“Would you like to ride in my Chinese spy balloon….”

Didn’t see a thread on this yet and now we allegedly have a second one. I’m sure it’s fine though.

https://cnn.it/3HWNU72

 

The only thing related to a balloon I'm willing to get into a shooting war about is whether the English or German version of "99 Luft Balloons" is better.

 

Passed over STL earlier this evening.

 

Whole lot of big corporations are gonna lose money if we get into a shootin’ war with China so we ain’t getting in shit.

 

I'm not worried about war with China.

War over Nena? Go for your guns.

 

Passing up the equivalent of the U-2 incident, and all it would take is a BB gun by Ralphie.

Doesn’t anyone remember the Colorado balloon boy?

 

A Red Ryder BB has no hope of getting that high, but a small puncture would serve nicely to bring it down intact to see what technology the Chinese stole from us.

 

Might not be that easy. Apparently there are a lot of very practical reasons why we couldn't shoot it down even if we wanted to, and if we wanted to why it might be a very bad idea given its size.
A quick Twitter thread:

 

Come to think of it, I might have something that'll do the trick.

 

Of course I meant BB gun from a plane.

Really just wanted to make a Christmas Story reference.

Another option: lasers. Melt it.

Something else - do you all remember how the Corona spy satellites returned to the surface? They were captured in midair.