There's an identical one over south America some place too. Satellites aren't an ideal solution, they follow predictable paths that are hard to change and the resolution isn't as good as even a cheap camera at 60,000ft
Apparently, what's making them suspicious is that the balloon evidently has a limited capacity for course alterations, i.e it's under power and control, and it altered course to fly over some of the militaries no-no zones.
Basically, it's not behaving like just a weather balloon... and China said it's for mainly metrological purposes.
But I agree, people are being stupid about it. Apart from anything else, China has been doing this for quite some time now. Only now the media has noticed it.
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There's an identical one over south America some place too. Satellites aren't an ideal solution, they follow predictable paths that are hard to change and the resolution isn't as good as even a cheap camera at 60,000ft
Apparently, what's making them suspicious is that the balloon evidently has a limited capacity for course alterations, i.e it's under power and control, and it altered course to fly over some of the militaries no-no zones.
Basically, it's not behaving like just a weather balloon... and China said it's for mainly metrological purposes.
But I agree, people are being stupid about it. Apart from anything else, China has been doing this for quite some time now. Only now the media has noticed it.