Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm officially freaked out now. And I don't get freaked out about anything.
I sleep well at night knowing Biden has a steady hand and knows exactly what to do.
Yes. This.
He’ll do exactly what Xi tells him to. I have absolute faith in Joe to do that.
Anonymous wrote:No, they knew. A sharp reporter asked since Biden was aware of these balloons since last year, why didn't they adjust the gateways sooner? They didn't want to find them for whatever reason.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apparently the reason these things weren’t detected years earlier (or ever) was because the software that analyzes radar data has settings (called “gates”) that essentially filter out things that don’t meet certain criteria: airspeed, trajectories, etc). The program is looking for radar returns that are consistent with that of an aircraft or of a rocket or missile. It filters everything else out that doesn’t fit that profile. So a slow moving balloon and it’s payload, being nearly “motionless” compared to an aircraft or missile, is just seen as “noise” by the software, and is filtered out.
Apparently the NORAD IT folks have rewritten some code over the last week after the first balloon incident, and now suddenly are spotting these things now.
But this has clearly been going on for probably years, maybe even decades. And the radar software was filtering it out because it didn’t fit a target profile that had been programmed. And China clearly knew about this, and exploited it to great effect.
Wow, that's a pretty big oversight isn't it? It's rather naive of the military to assume that only aircraft and missiles are concerns so filter out everything slow moving. If other nations know that your software does this (and evidently they were aware) then all they need to do is create craft that doesn't behave in the way your software is expecting enemy incursions to appear. Which seems to be what they've done. You're looking for airplanes? We'll make a balloon.
No, they knew. A sharp reporter asked since Biden was aware of these balloons since last year, why didn't they adjust the gateways sooner? They didn't want to find them for whatever reason.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apparently the reason these things weren’t detected years earlier (or ever) was because the software that analyzes radar data has settings (called “gates”) that essentially filter out things that don’t meet certain criteria: airspeed, trajectories, etc). The program is looking for radar returns that are consistent with that of an aircraft or of a rocket or missile. It filters everything else out that doesn’t fit that profile. So a slow moving balloon and it’s payload, being nearly “motionless” compared to an aircraft or missile, is just seen as “noise” by the software, and is filtered out.
Apparently the NORAD IT folks have rewritten some code over the last week after the first balloon incident, and now suddenly are spotting these things now.
But this has clearly been going on for probably years, maybe even decades. And the radar software was filtering it out because it didn’t fit a target profile that had been programmed. And China clearly knew about this, and exploited it to great effect.
Wow, that's a pretty big oversight isn't it? It's rather naive of the military to assume that only aircraft and missiles are concerns so filter out everything slow moving. If other nations know that your software does this (and evidently they were aware) then all they need to do is create craft that doesn't behave in the way your software is expecting enemy incursions to appear. Which seems to be what they've done. You're looking for airplanes? We'll make a balloon.
Anonymous wrote:The U2 commercial tied in quite nicely.
Anonymous wrote:I’m not freaked out by anything and normally have a logical, pragmatic view of things but am pretty much convinced these latest objects are alien and not from China . Just a coincidence that they came on the heels of the balloon. I think they’ve been surveilling all along and for whatever reason they got a little sloppy with the altitude

Anonymous wrote:I’m scared guys
Anonymous wrote:It's good we are getting rid of unknown objects in airspace. It's appalling this has apparently gone on for a while, and is only be dealt with now.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Three possibilities
1. It’s China
2. It’s Aliens
3. We are showing how dumb we are and shooting down kites.
Weren't there press conferences by Biden and DoD? What did they say?
They said nothing. They said they don’t know what they shot down. How is that possible?
How can you shoot down a commercial balloon or blimp and not know it?
China or aliens. Or we just embarrassed ourselves.