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Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron by giantg2 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @07:28PM (#34768702)
If you fly dummies for the purpose of having them shot down, they wouldn't have to carry much. It's probably nothing too expensive or they'd put it on a satellite.

If they're flying really expensive stuff at commercial flight levels, that's pretty dumb since it will be shot down.

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Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron by jrockway on Sunday February 12, 2023 @08:26PM (#34769092)
> If they're flying really expensive stuff at commercial flight levels, that's pretty dumb since it will be shot down.

Seemed like a good strategy until about a week ago!

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Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron by giantg2 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:26PM (#34769786)
The prior ones weren't at the commercial level.
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Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron by elorant on Sunday February 12, 2023 @08:39PM (#34769188)
IF they’re dummies why bother shooting them down?
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Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron by giantg2 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:25PM (#34769783)
We won't know that until the debris is recovered. There's no way to know what payload the next one will be carrying either.
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Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron by undersuit on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:38AM (#34770792)
And what if it's just "upcycled" electronics. We could spend a boat load trying to recover bogus data from seawater logged flash drives for nothing.
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Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron by elorant on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:41AM (#34773924)
In which case they won't cost just 10k. We're coming full circle to my initial comment.
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