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I watched the hearing and noticed three things: 1. Many questions about the US response to aerial devices like the “Chinese ballon” and the public’s right to k
by philips 3y ago
I watched the hearing and noticed three things:
1. Many questions about the US response to aerial devices like the “Chinese ballon” and the public’s right to knowledge about those events.
2. Calls for removing career stigma around pilots reporting UAPs.
3. Calls for additional funding and policies surrounding research and reporting of unidentified aerial phenomenon.
It was a combination of pragmatic process improvements, defense funding requests and unsubstantiated non-human intelligence claims.
- chiefalchemist 3y ago[flagged]
- nonethewiser 3y agoChina admitted it was their balloon but claimed it wasn’t the government’s, nor for surveillance. Does that mean China is just in on the conspiracy then?
- neuronic 3y agoIf you believe Grusch, then yes, because governments around the world are racing to recover UAPs. I don’t really believe it but it would be in line with the story.
- chiefalchemist 3y ago[flagged]
- bananapub 3y ago> Imagine this...China loves to see us spend more and more on "defense", while they plan and execute things such as "The New Silk Road." While we're droning the fuck out of the Middle East, China is making friends in Africa. if your conspiracy that the US is run by self-serving idiots then I don't know what to tell you
- chiefalchemist 3y agoThe MIC is a conspiracy theory? Imagine this then...the term was popularized by a multi-star military general who was also a POTUS. Eisenhower didn't know what he was talking about? Remember: They lied about WMDs, but you don't think they'd stage a balloon incident? You're naive. I *do* know what to tell you...stop making eveything you don't want to understand a "conspiracy theory." Life isn't that simple. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y&pp=ygUzZWlzZW5ob3dlciBtaWxpdGFyeSBpbmR1c3RyaWFsIGNvbXBsZXggc3BlZWNoIHZpZGVv https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y&pp=ygUzZWlzZW5ob3d...
- dontlaugh 3y agoIt was definitely an out of control scientific balloon. Doesn’t mean the US didn’t also shoot it down to stoke the new Cold War.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoThe question is the source. Anyone could have put that in the air.
- dontlaugh 3y agoThe Chinese government said it is Chinese. Considering the country is encircled by US bases, what incentive would they have to help the US government?
- chiefalchemist 3y agoWhen we spend excessively on DoD, that doesn't "help the US gov", unless slitting our own throats is help.
- dontlaugh 3y agoIt helps the ruling class of the US, the bourgeoisie. It doesn't help the government or people of China, though. So they have no reason to help.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoYou can split hairs all you want about the ruling class and the gov but the latter is the sock puppet of the former. That is, they are effectively one in the same. When that duo screws the proles - and it does, often - that IS good for China. aka Communist China. Balloon = "new red scare" = "we need more DoD budget" = "we don't have money for X, Y, and Z" = "let them eat balloons" It's a tired and known pattern. But proles being proles don't get it. FFS, most on HN don't get it.