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To: TobagoJack who wrote (195968)	2/7/2023 11:42:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By fred woodall gg cox Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217792

Balloon hysteria. Crazed Americans go postal over a balloon. Amusing. China should launch them daily. Cost of balloon $10,000. Cost of missile and crazy response = $10 million. The balloons could also carry some weather sensing/reporting electronics. Apparently the hysterics don't know that reliable high resolution cameras in satellites provide much better imagery, for years rather than hours and can be put in orbits to maximize observations required. The idea that the balloon was "steered" and could be made to loiter is absurd. Altitude was 20 km or something. Up there, the air speeds are in the hundreds of kilometres per hour. A balloon can't fly upwind at 10 km per hour let alone 300 km per hour. The Google Loon project planned to position balloons somewhat by raising and lowering them to be blown in the right direction at the right speed, but that was a tricky thing to do and was very limited. And failed. Project cancelled. USA threatens and attacks Russia and threatens China. China can reasonably poke back. Funny that Americans go berserk over a balloon. Another amusing aspect is that Americans have invented units of distance called School Buses and volume units of Double Decker busses. They also use units of measure of football fields. So they stated the debris field was 20 football fields by 20 football fields [which combined units peculiarly as a football field is an area rather than a length, but maybe they meant the length of a football field]. In the civilized world, we use metres, hectares, kilograms, litres, cubic metres etc. Mqurice