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Congrats to the military then for letting the Chinese conduct surveillance in order to conceal the fact that they have employees with eyes.

by mrtksn 4y ago

yongjik 4y ago
While being watched by the US military, thus giving it potentially valuable information on how China conducts its surveillance. It's turtles all the way down.
- mrtksn 4y ago
  For some reason a lot of people really want to believe that the military was all over it without any indication whatsoever. I guess it feeds from the need of knowing that someone(the correct one I guess?) is watching.
  - rationalist 4y ago
    > For some reason a lot of people really want to believe that the military was all over it without any indication whatsoever Not for me at least. I never claimed the military did anything (discovered it, surveilled it), just that it's possible that they could have done something without others knowing. I just think it's extremely bad form to assume things that there's no evidence for - both about the balloon and the military, and about why people are commenting.
    - mrtksn 4y ago
      A lot of things are possible, like maybe the God really put the fossils in the soil and the world is just a few thousand years old. That said, I usually like to have at least a clue about that being the case. Also, Occam's Razor.
      - rationalist 4y ago
        I don't think we need to go off-topic and discuss theology here. Regarding Occam's Razor, it's pretty simple that the military keeps secrets.
klyrs 4y ago
How did all the conspiracy theorists collectively forget how many spy satellites are in orbit? Were they flashy-thingied by the spy balloon, or do chem-trails (or the belief therein) cause amnesia?
flangola7 4y ago
Unless it flew over a secret research base I don't know what a balloon could gather that I can't already get from google maps or public USGIS datasets.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
  Signals intelligence
  - flangola7 4y ago
    Like what? The radio waves traveling over the US are not a secret.
    - kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
      Think metadata, if you will. Where signals originated, how often and what times of day, etc.
awlkjlekrt 4y ago
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Congrats to the military then for letting the Chinese conduct surveillance in order to conceal the fact that they have employees with eyes.

by mrtksn 4y ago

Congrats to the military then for letting the Chinese conduct surveillance in order to conceal the fact that they have employees with eyes.

yongjik 4y ago

While being watched by the US military, thus giving it potentially valuable information on how China conducts its surveillance. It's turtles all the way down.

mrtksn 4y ago
For some reason a lot of people really want to believe that the military was all over it without any indication whatsoever. I guess it feeds from the need of knowing that someone(the correct one I guess?) is watching.
- rationalist 4y ago
  > For some reason a lot of people really want to believe that the military was all over it without any indication whatsoever Not for me at least. I never claimed the military did anything (discovered it, surveilled it), just that it's possible that they could have done something without others knowing. I just think it's extremely bad form to assume things that there's no evidence for - both about the balloon and the military, and about why people are commenting.
  - mrtksn 4y ago
    A lot of things are possible, like maybe the God really put the fossils in the soil and the world is just a few thousand years old. That said, I usually like to have at least a clue about that being the case. Also, Occam's Razor.
    - rationalist 4y ago
      I don't think we need to go off-topic and discuss theology here. Regarding Occam's Razor, it's pretty simple that the military keeps secrets.

klyrs 4y ago

How did all the conspiracy theorists collectively forget how many spy satellites are in orbit? Were they flashy-thingied by the spy balloon, or do chem-trails (or the belief therein) cause amnesia?

flangola7 4y ago

Unless it flew over a secret research base I don't know what a balloon could gather that I can't already get from google maps or public USGIS datasets.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
Signals intelligence
- flangola7 4y ago
  Like what? The radio waves traveling over the US are not a secret.
  - kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
    Think metadata, if you will. Where signals originated, how often and what times of day, etc.

awlkjlekrt 4y ago

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