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(Some Guy)   China was creating propaganda pieces about shooting down other countries' spy balloons while launching their own in the air   (newsnationnow.com) divider line
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855 clicks; posted to Politics » on 08 Feb 2023 at 11:15 PM (7 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Xythero [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 11:18:16 PM  
I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 11:18:21 PM  
Sounds
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 11:18:47 PM  

Peter von Nostrand: Sounds


Ugh...

Sounds like some shiat north Korea would do.
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 11:19:45 PM  

Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.


I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"
 
OrionXVI
2023-02-08 11:19:57 PM  
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TorpedoOrca
2023-02-08 11:21:44 PM  
Sooo, one of these with a 60,000 foot pole!

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Smoking GNU
2023-02-08 11:21:57 PM  
How Republican of them.
 
Jim_Callahan
2023-02-08 11:22:58 PM  
I mean... the US has produced entire libraries of propaganda pieces about good-guy Marine Seal Team Sniper Beret Alpha Chad saving the US from some hostile foreign nation or minor terrorist group with nukes when the US has unarguably been the only real nuclear threat to anyone for half a century now (and one of only two nuclear threats at most since 1945) and using that specific fact to get away with hostile actions against everyone else while most of that propo was being published, so I don't think we're really in a position to point and laugh at this.

It's standard propaganda procedure because it's the first trick in a book we wrote, y'know?
 
Palined Parenthood [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 11:24:16 PM  
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COMALite J
2023-02-08 11:25:15 PM  

Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"

Have you ever tried to steer a satellite? Balloons can be guided to a degree. Both have their uses in espionage.
 
DoctorCal
2023-02-08 11:27:53 PM  

Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"


https://www.fark.com/comments/12744192/159079020#c159079020
 
Space Station Wagon
2023-02-08 11:39:20 PM  
Balloons are cost effective and have deliver ROI
 
vrax
2023-02-08 11:39:36 PM  

COMALite J: Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"
Have you ever tried to steer a satellite? Balloons can be guided to a degree. Both have their uses in espionage.


Plus you're talking about massively different distances, so there are some definite advantages to being so much closer.
 
buravirgil
2023-02-08 11:43:37 PM  
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Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 11:46:04 PM  

vrax: COMALite J: Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"
Have you ever tried to steer a satellite? Balloons can be guided to a degree. Both have their uses in espionage.

Plus you're talking about massively different distances, so there are some definite advantages to being so much closer.


It's the question that has been answered in every thread but keeps getting asked.
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 11:46:50 PM  

DoctorCal: Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"

https://www.fark.com/comments/12744192/159079020#c159079020


👆🏽

This guy gets it!
 
Sin'sHero [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 11:57:06 PM  
Spy balloons from Tibet, maybe ones sent by Uighers?
 
etoof
2023-02-08 11:58:40 PM  

Peter von Nostrand: Peter von Nostrand: Sounds

Ugh...

Sounds like some shiat north Korea would do.


Is China outsourcing now?
 
mistahtom
2023-02-09 12:02:47 AM  
So, uh, not to alarm anyone but 2 days before the media broke the news about that Chinese balloon, I had seen some weird shiat in the sky (probably a Mylar balloon or a drone) and I literally thought to myself "I wonder if the Chinese are sending high-atmospheric balloons over the continent?"

/no1curr
//no1beliefme
 
DoctorCal
2023-02-09 12:09:02 AM  

Peter von Nostrand: DoctorCal: Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"

https://www.fark.com/comments/12744192/159079020#c159079020

👆🏽

This guy gets it!


I have a nagging sense that somebody planted that seed a couple of days earlier.
 
AppleOptionEsc
2023-02-09 12:15:47 AM  

Jim_Callahan: I mean... the US has produced entire libraries of propaganda pieces about good-guy Marine Seal Team Sniper Beret Alpha Chad saving the US from some hostile foreign nation or minor terrorist group with nukes when the US has unarguably been the only real nuclear threat to anyone for half a century now (and one of only two nuclear threats at most since 1945) and using that specific fact to get away with hostile actions against everyone else while most of that propo was being published, so I don't think we're really in a position to point and laugh at this.

It's standard propaganda procedure because it's the first trick in a book we wrote, y'know?


When you say threat, do you mean Monday morning quarterback threat over the last 60 years, or the literal threats of Russia, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Russia, China once, Russia, Cuba, and Russia?

And not normal Reagan hollywood movie and Faux Newz propoganda threats, but actual released to international networks, threats.

Because yeah, over the last 60 years nothing had happened. That's bad?
 
MechaPyx
2023-02-09 12:18:09 AM  

Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.



It's not like the advanced technology/optics for the really kick ass spy satellites is equally available to everyone. And satellites can be tracked and anticipated.

Balloons are cheaper, they can get a closer look at things, and it's a good way to gauge the response of the target nation. Do they even notice it? Are they capable of shooting it down? Does the process of shooting it down reveal a previously unknown weapon capability? Can they collect some signals/intelligence from the attempt?
 
The Green Intern
2023-02-09 12:27:19 AM  
Now here's some tinfoil(?) for you:

They're using balloons because they're planning to kessler the local orbital real estate and thinking satellites won't be viable.
 
A Room Full of Angry Raccoons
2023-02-09 12:30:13 AM  

Jim_Callahan: I mean... the US has produced entire libraries of propaganda pieces about good-guy Marine Seal Team Sniper Beret Alpha Chad saving the US from some hostile foreign nation or minor terrorist group with nukes when the US has unarguably been the only real nuclear threat to anyone for half a century now (and one of only two nuclear threats at most since 1945) and using that specific fact to get away with hostile actions against everyone else while most of that propo was being published, so I don't think we're really in a position to point and laugh at this.

It's standard propaganda procedure because it's the first trick in a book we wrote, y'know?


But it's only exceptional when WE do it!!! Everyone else is the villain!

/s
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 12:36:31 AM  

mistahtom: So, uh, not to alarm anyone but 2 days before the media broke the news about that Chinese balloon, I had seen some weird shiat in the sky (probably a Mylar balloon or a drone) and I literally thought to myself "I wonder if the Chinese are sending high-atmospheric balloons over the continent?"

/no1curr
//no1beliefme


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We've been worried about Chinese aerial surveillance technology since Wan Hu invented the first and last rocket chair
 
I won a math debate
2023-02-09 12:38:39 AM  

Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"


I'm gonna add it to my list

Why can't they just fire her?
Why can't they just raise the bridge?
Why doesn't she just shave her head?
Why don't they just pull the ship out?
Why can't they just use satellites?
 
DoctorCal
2023-02-09 1:19:02 AM  

I won a math debate: Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"

I'm gonna add it to my list

Why can't they just fire her?
Why can't they just raise the bridge?
Why doesn't she just shave her head?
Why don't they just pull the ship out?
Why can't they just use satellites?


What's the third one about?
 
I won a math debate
2023-02-09 1:40:24 AM  

DoctorCal: I won a math debate: Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"

I'm gonna add it to my list

Why can't they just fire her?
Why can't they just raise the bridge?
Why doesn't she just shave her head?
Why don't they just pull the ship out?
Why can't they just use satellites?

What's the third one about?


A couple years ago, a story came out where someone substituted gorilla glue for their normal hair care product, with predictable results. It turned out the hair was so smooshed and stuck to her scalp that shaving it was impossible, though that didn't stop farkers from repeating the suggestion. She ended up seeing some kind of specialist to get scalp surgery. Here's the best write-up I can find on it
 
Alphax
2023-02-09 4:14:56 AM  
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Xythero [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 7:28:26 AM  
I apologize for missing all the balloon threads and thus the wisdom of the balloon. I promise to do better.
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-02-09 7:37:37 AM  

Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.


I know, Right! Satellites are superior to balloons in every possible way! There is zero chance the US would even think of using balloons for anything.
 
DoctorCal
2023-02-09 10:03:47 AM  

I won a math debate: DoctorCal: I won a math debate: Peter von Nostrand: Xythero: I guess that's nice, but who has spy balloons?  I'd assume countries have been using spy satellites for at least 20 years.

I feel like this is the new "why can't they just fire her?"

I'm gonna add it to my list

Why can't they just fire her?
Why can't they just raise the bridge?
Why doesn't she just shave her head?
Why don't they just pull the ship out?
Why can't they just use satellites?

What's the third one about?

A couple years ago, a story came out where someone substituted gorilla glue for their normal hair care product, with predictable results. It turned out the hair was so smooshed and stuck to her scalp that shaving it was impossible, though that didn't stop farkers from repeating the suggestion. She ended up seeing some kind of specialist to get scalp surgery. Here's the best write-up I can find on it


Oh lawd. Thanks.

That list could get long.
 
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