Why Can’t We Get Answers Re: the Chinese Spy Balloon?
Here’s a conversation on the Chinese spy balloon. Readers, can you help me understand this?Reader #1: China could collect valuable information that could not be detected by satellites. For example, spying from within the earth’s atmosphere might offer more exact resolution. Perhaps heat detection of certain buildings might permit reliable data on the number of inhabitants. Or there may be other information available at the balloon’s level and speed of which laypeople like us have no knowledge. It seem ridiculous to believe that China would launch that thing as a symbol or strategic move.
Reader #2: A government satellite has some pretty good resolution that isn’t really going to get any better from a conspicuous balloon floating by and the number of inhabitants of a building at a random moment of time as guesstimated from heat signatures isn’t really all that valuable compared to just pointing a satellite at the location and just observing who goes in and out of it. Also, satellites already have infrared capabilities.
Me: So, is there any way we as common Americans can learn what actually happened here? As someone who knows essentially nothing about the subject, I’ll accept the idea that a balloon at 60K feet isn’t going to provide much more precise information than a satellite, regardless of what it’s looking for specifically. So what was it doing there?
What did Xi Jinping reply when Biden/our Pentagon asked him that?
What did he say when we told him we were going to shoot it down?
Is there some reason we can’t have answers here?
How can you give a “reason” to someone asking this question, when the balloon payload hit the water at maximum velocity — because it fell from 60,000 feet, and probably wans’t designed for such a “landing”.
It’s in little pieces on the ocean floor– just like the pieces from the fuselage of the 747 that exploded climbing out of New York City yeas ago.
It takes time to even find things like that.
It took years before enough pieces of that 747 were found and pieced back together to where the examiners could examine it; finding that it exploded due to a spark in a half way filled fuel belly tank.
Give them time before you start yelling “cover- up” — which is probably coming next from some folks.