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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1390370)	2/10/2023 2:41:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (4) of 1578044

Brumar, you're probably sick of balloon news by now, so hopefully this will be the last one for a while: Mystery Over Why Chinese Spy Balloon Wasn't Shot Down Over Alaska Solved (msn.com) The excuse again was the potential loss of human life, but they were also interested in recovering the equipment with as minimal damage as possible. OK, so why wasn't it shot down in the waters off the coast of Alaska? The excuse is that those waters are cold, and the depths vary widely from 150 feet to 18,000 feet. The waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach are warmer and have depths of less than 100 feet. I personally think these arguments are rather weak. But I also think that these balloons didn't really gather all that much sensitive info regarding our homeland defenses, which is why the military didn't feel any urgency whatsoever to shoot it down. It's more political symbolism than anything. Tenchusatsu

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