Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sense who wrote (196466)	2/19/2023 6:22:50 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217561

Re <<The "U.S. wasting its money shooting balloons" argument is... ridiculous.>> Yes, dunno, agnostic, possibly self-evident that one does not want to spend too much money to down a lot of balloons, says Edward. I can understand his reckoning on basis of mathematics if not on national security implications. Perhaps he is wrong. In the meantime, it is factually true that sovereign airspace has no multinational altitude definition except capability / capacity for shooting down whatever is floating or orbiting by. There is a property law on the objects floating or orbiting by. Am sure 'they' shall sort out the complications. Let's wait & see. As far as <<Chinese citizens ... farmland>>, advisably / arguably, all farmland everywhere ought to be off limits to all foreigners from anywhere unless the domain in which the sale / purchase done is what folks used to call a banana republic, am taking a 1st order guess. zerohedge.com Pentagon Declines To Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon With $400,000 Missile Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Pentagon is stonewalling inquiries as to whether one of the unidentified objects it shot down off the coast of Alaska earlier this month was a $12 dollar hobby balloon. An F-22 Raptor does a fly-by during the airshow at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sept. 16, 2017. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) Speculation that the unidentified aerial object the administration shot down earlier this month was actually a cheap hobbyist pico balloon began to build this week after a group dedicated to the hobby reported one of its balloons “ missing in action” over Alaska. A blog post from the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) recounted that it had lost contact with its hobby balloon on Feb. 11, and that it was last recorded at an altitude of about 39,000 feet off the coast of Alaska. please tell me the white house did not spend the month of february scrambling jets to fire $400,000 missiles at the local hobby club's TWELVE DOLLAR BALLOON lord have mercyhttps://t.co/4D7DaTncvT — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 16, 2023 Pico balloons are small mylar balloons equipped with trackers that are used by hobbyists to measure weather patterns and can cost as little as $12. The U.S. military shot down an unidentified object in the same general vicinity at an altitude of 40,000 feet on the same day using a $400,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. When asked whether that included a pico balloon or if the department had in any way followed up with the NIBBB, the Pentagon deflected. “We have nothing to provide on this,” a Department of Defense ( DOD) spokesperson said in an email. For its part, the NIBBB has said it is not unusual for such a balloon to go without transmission for some days at a time, and until remains from the balloon were collected, the assertion that the U.S. military shot it down was not verifiable. “As has been widely reported, no part of the object shot down by the U.S. Air Force jet over the Yukon Territory has been recovered,” the NIBBB said in a blog post. Read more here...