Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.

  • zephyreks [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The article makes no claim as to the nature of the balloon. The author is very careful about that. It’s a balloon that didn’t collect any intelligence nor transmit any data. How, exactly, would you define a spy balloon? It’s starting to sound like your threshold for “spy balloon” is “launched by some Chinese person,” which is probably more than a little racist.