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A comment on Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon with $400k Missile.

Re:Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon w... by fma on Sunday February 19, 2023 @07:30PM (#34863478)
They didn't recover the object...so they wouldn't be able to answer either way. I'm surprised they couldn't do a visual inspection and say yep...it's a pico balloon. And if it was, I'm pretty impressed a missile can hone in on something like that.
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Re:Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon w... by abudabi123 on Sunday February 19, 2023 @07:54PM (#34863646)
The Cuban Missile Crisis had backdoor communication to resolve the urgent problem of the day. That object in a spy thriller movie could be a backdoor object.
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