choffer Posted February 6, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 6, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 6, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 6, 2023 2 hours ago, The Fun Factory said: Getting incredibly high. Pure Gold that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted February 6, 2023 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2023 15 hours ago, maqroll said: Two more balloons over Colombia, apparently. They'd have got away with it if it hadn't been for the Medellin kids 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 On 05/02/2023 at 13:02, Tegis said: Colonel Farrah still knows how to get balloons down top marks for getting an Amiga game in .. hard to imagine at the time those graphics were ground breaking !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 The bruhaha developing over here regarding this is quite something. That the national (political)psyche can be bruised so easily must be so entertaining for many other nations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted February 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2023 1 hour ago, villakram said: The bruhaha developing over here regarding this is quite something. That the national (political)psyche can be bruised so easily must be so entertaining for many other nations. It's not just the States, you ought to have been in the UK during Brexit. It was like the country had a stroke. In my family personally there have been whole bunches of people who have not spoken to each other since 2016, and likely never will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2023 On 06/02/2023 at 10:08, DeadlyDirk said: I would have thought just putting a few machine gun rounds into the balloon part itself would give it a nice controlled descent. I am not a physicist or a scientist so I'm basing this opinion one GCSE physics from the 90's 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 These type of balloons are commonly used to test prototype detector systems prior to space flight qualification and sometimes for experiments outright. In NASA land it is a little on the common side for these things to spring a leak and for an experiment that needed 10/20/60/90 days of flight data to end prematurely with the balloon coming down to the ground in who knows where on a slow/gentle timescale. Once of the reason for this was that the balloons were hand stitched and various other silliness as the balloon material is so lightweight and precious on the ground, and science money is limited vs DoD land. Deliberately downing this slowly while in flight is much harder as the tear you would want (a single bullet etc might do the trick) is hard to get doing when the thing is at 70k feet. Among other things the balloon is travelling on the slow side whereas as mechanical things tend to be travelling quite fast and have never had any need for arming... a gun port opening would likely induce turbulence that would rip a supersonic airframe to shreds. They. could have tried firing missiles and detonating them far away and above it such that a piece of debris might fall on the balloon. They'd look right foolish though given how this was being recorded by the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted February 7, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 7, 2023 I read that this thing was 200ft tall - if that's true, I'd completely misjudged its scale, I had it down as about the size of a bus, instead, it was about the size of Birmingham's new library. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 The US have shot down another "object", over Alaska this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Just now, sne said: The US have shot down another "object", over Alaska this time Size of a small car apparently. What the **** is it? If the chinese are behind this as well you know its nit going to go down well ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozzavfc Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 24 minutes ago, sne said: The US have shot down another "object", over Alaska this time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted February 11, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 11, 2023 And another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 I'm not really into alien stuff myself as most of if not all of it is fake, I'm far more interested in human conspiracies. However this really intrigues me, either way it's an exciting story unfolding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 If governments cannot explain something then usually it is put as a unclassified incident and hidden away so the public are not made aware. I don't think this is alien activity as they never would have made this public otherwise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 12, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 12, 2023 The aliens thing was a joke. Why are people even commenting on it? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 03/02/2023 at 06:14, AVFC_Hitz said: Giant Chinese Spy Balloon Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky The Giant Chinese spy balloon goes by This thread title now joins 'Gun crime in the USA' in having its own theme tune. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted February 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12, 2023 1 hour ago, bickster said: The aliens thing was a joke. Why are people even commenting on it? Probably because the description of a silver cylindrical car-sized object with no obvious means of propulsion seems peculiar. It wasn't at the same sort of altitude as the balloon though (12km I think) so I suppose it wouldn't need to be the sort of scale of the first balloon they shot down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12, 2023 A car sized flying object with no obvious source of propulsion. Has anyone checked on Harry Potter lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Could be that Tesla coming back ‘cos there’s no chargers on the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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