To: digimaus
  Re: Re: Up, Up, and away, in my..
  By: digimaus to Mike Powell on Sun Feb 05 2023 12:46 pm

 > From Newsgroup: Micronet.MIN_DEBATE
 >
 >  MP> I am sure it was reporting back plenty of data until the point where it
 >  MP> got shot down.
 >
 > It was deliberately shot down in waters too deep for retrival of debris.
 > Creepy Joe would never betray his masters.
 >

" In addition to its maneuverability, the surveillance balloon differs from a
typical weather balloon in other ways, according to the Weather Channel. First,
it has been airborne for days, but weather balloons typically remain up for only
a couple of hours. The Chinese balloon is also roughly the size of three buses,
whereas weather balloons typically expand to only about 20 feet across."

whats strange is they knew they were going to shoot it down.  why not
have the salvage operation there to get it.  instead they had to GO there and
that took some time.  and the recovery is supposed to take days.
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