candycorn
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- Aug 25, 2009
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Wow, sounds pretty serious.IF they fall to earth, unarmed, we can deal with them. IF they become armed then we have much bigger problems. MUCH, MUCH, BIGGER PROBLEMS. IF you fry the trigger circuitry then you are picking up pieces instead of trying to figure out how you're going to supply a nation with new transformers and items to keep people alive with.
Source: China's Spy Balloon Was 200 ft Tall, Carried Payload the Size of a Jet
But hey, the payload that this balloon carried was the size of a major airliner and in the thousands of pounds, This could very easily been a nuclear weapon of great size. 50Kt or greater and we let this thing travers the US at 50,000 feet. Perfect altitude for an EMP detonation.
Nah, actually it sounds pretty hilarious.
"Yeah, lets strap a nuclear bomb to the bottom of a balloon and sail it 8,000 miles over a few weeks as a first strike!!! That'll show them!"
The lengths you guys will go to to play up our enemies and tear down the US is truly remarkable.