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  Fun, it's getting shot down like right next to where I live :/
context: They just shot it down >
  
  Well I hope that balloon wasn't inflated with zombie outbreak juice. >
  
  It was over the ocean >
  
  Zombie sharks are nuttin to fuck wit! >
  
  They've been filming Sharknado Z: Zombie Apocalypse and forgot to tell anyone. >
  
  Man if they made a Sharknado Z movie in the Z Nation side of the Asylumverse I would totally pay to see it. >
  
  You just threw out all sorts of made up hype words.
  I'm fucking IN!! >
  
  So the company that makes Sharknado also made a TV series in the same universe called Z Nation which is a Zombie infestation sci-fi comedy. It's also tied to a movie series called Lavantula and the Netflix series Black Summer. >
  
  Fun fact. During WW2 Japan used balloons to send bombs to the US. One bomb killed 6 people in Oregon. >
  
  Weren’t those 6 like all kids? I think a pastor and his wife were taking 5 kids from their church to a beach and the kids found the bomb on the ground.
  Edit: yeah 5 kids and a pregnant woman, fuck imperial Japan >
  
  To be fair, I think we did something similar >
  
  Something something firebombing something something Tokyo... >
  
  I think there were thinking of a couple other things as well >
  
  Charleston, SC, Myrtle Beach and Wilmington, NC are the three airports. >
  
  I was wondering why I didn’t see any planes today. Usually there are navy planes circling the city every weekend I guess for drills >
  
  It just got shot down.
  Indubitably >
  
  Someone smarter than me: what are the implications/repercussions >
  
  Chinese weather forecast in shambles >
  
  Chinese are extremely interested in the weather near Billings Montana and Raleigh NC. >
  
  As is tradition >
  
  Neat, just clicked the link and saw it popped like 30 seconds later. >
  
  Balloon just got shot down >
  
  In regards to the 2nd balloon over Latin America; did that balloon "blow off course" too? >
  
  The trash from the Tsunami that hit Japan got carried up and down the coast of North and South America. >
  
  Water currents and air currents are not connected you know? >
  
  They're probably shooting that thing down once it gets over the ocean. >
  
  I wonder what China would do if we flew a spy balloon over their country… >
  
  Probably what we did. Chase it with a series of signals intelligence aircraft (in the USAF's case, a series of R-135U Combat Sent) , recording every bit and packet it transmitted for further analysis of encryption protocols and data types, and then when the three letter agencies thought they had what they needed from a live aircraft, puncture a few balloons so they could see what might be gathered from the dead one. >
  
  Bruh China would have shot that shit down immediately, civilians be fucked. >
  
  In my day James bond would parachute land on it. Take control and stop a doomsday crisis. Yall ain't seen shit yet. >
  
  We're actually going to fly another balloon next to it while Harrison Ford takes a zip line between the two. >
  
  “GET OFF OF MY BALLOON. kick” >
  
  No one tell China they can just use google maps. >
  
  I doubt it had cameras. It was probably being used for signals intelligence. >
  
  Like intercepting transmissions at US bases? Or communicating with their own spies? I feel like either way using a balloon isn't very discreet. Unless I'm missing something. >
  
  I’ve been sitting a plane that was grounded for this meant to go Charlotte to Myrtle beach at 1pm EST for 3 hours now.
  We are finally going to take off now. >
  
  Who is starting the go fund me to send a Macys parade sized Winnie the Pooh ballon to Beijing? >
  
  I don't think they need much more than 1 shot at the balloon to bring it down. >
  
  So what's going to happen to the boy who was flying in the balloon? >
  
  Is this a rescue of Balloon Boy? >
  
  Does anyone have video of the ballon being shot down? This is the highlight of my boring day and I find it kind of cool this is happening. It’s rare that we civilians get to see this kind of stuff >
  
  video >
  
  Thank you dude I appreciate you! >
  
  they just shot it down! >
  
  Bang bang that awful sound.
  Bang bang it hit the [water]