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If it was a legitimate weather balloon they would've given the governments of Canada and the US a heads-up before it entered our airspaces. Instead they just said "I dunno, lol" for a few days and eventually threw a fit after it did get shot down.
I bet the equipment that was hung underneath is now at some government facility being analyzed and we will never see it. >

Or in small pieces on the seafloor.
Remember this was a construction about the size of a school bus yet needs to be light enough to be lifted by a weather balloon, so it could afford be quite fragile. Thus when it hits the ocean surface much of it would break up & if the parts were not sufficiently buoyant they would sink to the bottom, which could be between 200 to 2000 meters down. >

I thought it crashed over shallow waters. >

This proves that the balloon was made of balloon material and landed in the ocean. >

Big if true >

Follow the money >

You're gonna need a bigger boat >

r/accidentalrenaissance >

I am little interested in the balloon itself.  Let's dive down and get at the electronics. >

I really couldn't care less about this fucking balloon >

OK, so you open a post about something you don't care about and then take the time to post about something you don't care about?
The Court of Reddit's Judge Pool seems awfully shallow today. >

Yes. I care about how much everyone else seems to care. >

China has been hiring ex members of the RAF to educate them on the UK landscape and sealing tracking devices in government cars and you really think it's strange that people care about them releasing a satellite over the US? >

This whole balloon thing doesn’t really pass the sniff test. 
How did 3 balloons (something that was spotted by both people on the ground and pilots) not get spotted the other times? Somebody is lying here >

Not necessarily. Something moving with the wind wouldn't be considered hostile. It's not like it had any means of propulsion or navigation. It is curious what China would even do with such a thing. >


wouldn’t be considered hostile 

Doesn’t matter if the pentagon considers it hostile or not, this balloon shut down 3 airports. Why wasn’t there anybody on the ground about a weird thing in the sky. It’s not like people couldn’t see it, there’s pictures of it on Twitter, and videos of it on tiktok shot from civilians. >

To be fair the balloon didn't shut down the airports. The government shut down the airports to destroy the balloon safely >

Does anyone else remember when headlines included "allegedly" before making wild unproven accusations? >

Allegedly a balloon, allegedly chinese, or allegedly for spying though?  I understand your point, but at this point I am going to be very surprised if it turns out to be a snoopy lunchbox from Peru that was up there as a way to collect chicken recipes from space. >

Allegedly a spy balloon. Balloons are notoriously unreliable and impossible to be covert. China says it's an off course weather balloon, which is much more plausible than the world's crappiest attempt at spying. Maybe it WAS a spy balloon, but the fact is, no one reporting in the media knows for sure, so continuing to call it a "spy balloon" is just working people up to sell clicks, rather than being legitimate objective news reporting. But you knew all that.