Oh no, they are spying on the weather. Better start WW3 before they advance to satellite tech.

These articles are making me realise just how much of the HN demographic is Chinese. Either that or simply naive when it comes to international affairs.

HN is filled with pro-China sock puppet accounts and useful idiots.

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Its probably just anti-American Americans, who would seemingly rather side with the enemy rather than their own country. Honestly I've seen posts spouting Chinese/Russian propaganda. its scary.

> simply naive

By this "naive" but you are ofc referring to all of the ones worried for high altitude jetstream weather balloons spying on them right?

You can't be serious

16 upvotes tells me many are feeling the same.

You do know that they have done this several times over the last decade or so, right?

you do know that these events are markedly different due to loitering duration and that its more brazen right?

You got a cite detailing the previous events?