Spy Balloon Debate
Comments debate whether high-altitude balloons, such as the recent Chinese incident, are innocuous weather balloons or surveillance devices, often comparing them to satellites and suggesting balloons as cheaper alternatives for loitering or launches.
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I'm surprised no-one has suggested weather balloons.
Why not use a balloon? or dirigible or something like that?
It's probably just a weather balloon. :-)
Couldn't you just as easily use a balloon on a tether?
Who needs satellites when balloons exist?
What can be done with a balloon that a satellite cannot?
Are these just weather balloons?
Just say it's a weather balloon
More like "belt and helium balloons" approach.
Clearly it's a weather balloon...