Global thermonuclear war starting because a bunch of weather balloons drift off course is a :chefs-kiss: perfect way to cap off these past few years
Chinese state-affiliated media reported over the weekend that an unidentified flying object had been spotted off the country's east coast, with the military preparing to shoot it down.
Probably defensive saber-rattleing, but concerning nonetheless. Exactly how many minutes left on the Doomsday clock? Do we get halftime?
A US military commander, General Glen VanHerck, said that there was no indication of any threat from the latest object.
He said it could be a "gaseous type of balloon" or "some type of a propulsion system" - adding he could not rule out that the objects were extra-terrestrials.
:scared: :posad:
This is what a lot of arms control and early warning experts have been saying, there are a ton of high altitude balloons drifting around the upper atmosphere. Until the US freaked out about the Chinese balloon last week, everyone had just been ignoring them. The US early warning radar even had speed gates to filter out balloons (just like they filter out birds and civilian planes).
And now we are wasting millions everyday to shoot down completely harmless weather balloons and trying to use them to justify war with China.