comment: >
  
  "DONT LOOK UP"
context: Someone please make a Chinese version of "99 Luftballons" >
  
  This person got it started. >
  
  Can somebody inform me what a balloon can do that a spy satellite can’t? >
  
  Probably airborne sensors. This thing is the size of three buses w/ a sizable observation bay. Deep ground penetrating radar from space has limits due to high orbit and the transition from space to atmosphere. Something that big probably can emit strong enough radar burst to get good look at deep underground military installations . Also just testing our response time and where our fighters would take off to intercept said balloon for North American defense. >
  
  F-22’s were specifically scrambled to observe the balloon because they have the highest service ceiling (65,000 feet) of any of our fighter jets. So that spy balloon must be way the fuck up there. I think this incident was more about testing the capability of our fighter aircraft. No doubt it was keeping record of how fast NORAD reacts and how quickly a jet would be in the sky and within range to intercept/observe it. >
  
  I heard, mother fucker had like, 30 god damn balloons >
  
  He’ll kick you apart. He’ll kick you apart! ooo. >
  
  He'll save children, but not the British children >
  
  I heard he once stuck an opponent's wife's hand in a jar of acid >
  
  at a party >
  
  He made love like an eagle falling out of the sky, but he killed his sensei  in a duel and never told us why. >
  
  Time to dust off the old Bloons Tower Defense >
  
  Wow that brought me back >
  
  Those games keep getting released. BTD6 is a banger. >
  
  Seconded. We talmbout heated boomerangs?
  enter GLAIVE DOMINUS 
  great game. 
  Jus some monkeys throwin darts at balloons >
  
  They forgot we have camo detect villages >
  
  Which become the all important MIB. >
  
  Manchurian Intelligence Balloon >
  
  I live in BIllings, Montana and this is pretty crazy thing to have alerted in your phone. Thought it was a prank honestly >
  
  What did the alert say? That must have been surreal