I’m not sure how much mass we’re dealing with, but most bus drivers are pretty good about keeping the volume of the bus more or less the same whether or not the

I’m not sure how much mass we’re dealing with, but most bus drivers are pretty good about keeping the volume of the bus more or less the same whether or not there are children aboard. /s I’ve only seen the school bus comparison on a couple NBC News articles, but they were pretty interesting and covered the internal US deliberations about public acknowledgment. Apparently China’s department head responsible for the balloon project was held responsible, and Chinese officials were somehow surprised and low key upset at the attribution and implications of malicious intent, as they claimed it wasn’t meant to enter US airspace, but they supposedly lost control of it. Oh, and they said it shouldn’t matter anyway because it was only for meteorological purposes. I guess China was expecting some kind of backchannel heads-up from the US once it was discovered? The secret U.S. effort to track, hide and surveil the Chinese spy balloon https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna130991 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna130991 Chinese spy balloon gathered intelligence from sensitive U.S. military sites, despite U.S. efforts to block it https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna77155 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna77155