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This seems like a worse idea than just collecting the thing and putting it in a faraday cage.
by xracy 4y ago
This seems like a worse idea than just collecting the thing and putting it in a faraday cage.
- cdot2 4y agoHow do you go about collect it from 65,000 feet?
- downvotetruth 4y agoShould have been pierced to start deflating over the Pacific when it entered the U.S. air defense zone north of the Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28: https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-antony-blinken-china-b1b03193b7abeb7bbeca169bbc7c2c53 https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government.... See metal hook at the end of a rope from a helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6_pdSedow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6_pdSedow
- cdot2 4y agoIt sounds like it wasnt detected until after it was already over the US and they shot it down over ~47ft deep water so it can be recovered pretty easily
- albntomat0 4y agoHelicopters can’t fly to 65000 ft, due to the low air density.
- cuteboy19 4y agoA ladder perhaps? Or ... another balloon!
- boredhedgehog 4y agoWith another balloon? You'd just want to cut off and grab the payload, right?
- xracy 4y agoNot gonna lie, I don't know. But I feel like it's probably more useful to gather information on it than to destroy it.
- ozarker 4y agoHow would you collect it?
- yeuxardents 4y agoTrying to remember what it was called but there was a 60/70s era program that was declassified that claimed to capture returning satellites from orbit using massive nets/parachutes carried behind large aircraft for example a c47 that would snap them right out of the air as they are falling.
- iancmceachern 4y agoCorona. They caught film canisters from spy satellites with nets hanging from planes
- signatoremo 4y agoThat’s capturing film reels dropped from Anerican spy satellites during the Cold War. They were tiny compared to this gigantic balloon https://www.historynet.com/spy-intelligence-from-the-sky/ https://www.historynet.com/spy-intelligence-from-the-sky/
- brewdad 4y agoWith our Star Trek level tractor beam. Of course, maybe we wouldn’t want to reveal that kind of capability to the world just yet.
- akira2501 4y agoI was thinking more James Bond. High Altitude Jet Pack.
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- dctoedt 4y agoThe video of the shoot-down shows flashes from the detached-and-falling payload, probably explosive self-destruct devices detonating. (It'd be shocking if the Chinese didn't include a self-destruct capability.)