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Maybe they want to capture it intact (most likely). Maybe they are doing signals intelligence on it. Maybe it's a (fake) Chinese school project, and the world
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Maybe they want to capture it intact (most likely).
Maybe they are doing signals intelligence on it.
Maybe it's a (fake) Chinese school project, and the world wide media will be like tomorrow "US gov shoots down Chinese little girl science project".
- mshake2 4y ago>"US gov shoots down Chinese little girl science project" "Cool balloon Mei, want to bring it to the White House?"
- davikr 4y agoAnd then they it turns out they just bought the balloon from like Alibaba and painted it or something?
- vuln 4y agoI believe they are referencing Former President Barak Obama's tweet. >Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great. https://twitter.com/POTUS44/status/644193755814342656 https://twitter.com/POTUS44/status/644193755814342656 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/16/440890750/obama-invites-texas-teen-to-white-house-after-bomb-hoax-incident https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/16/440890750...
- cjbgkagh 4y agoIt’s quite likely that was an extension of the joke, the repurposing of a comercial off the shelf item that already does the job the young inventor set out to do.
- idontwantthis 4y agoI just looked up the conclusion of that. So awful. His whole family ended up moving to Qatar because of harassment.
- mshake2 4y agoMoving to Qatar is a very common response to harassment and a failed lawsuit against local government for $15M
- lwhi 4y agoA nice idea, but the size of three double decker buses??