Another "Harmless" Balloon Over The US Headed East

[n423]

Bidum doesn't know . FJB

 

[Poke78]

@ConstitutionCowboy & @turkeyrun:

There never has been any FAA launch permission requirement, including those sent up regularly by the National Weather Service. There is guidance on places not to be used as launch locations but the NWS sends up radiosonde balloons at Max Westheimer airport in Norman.

@turkeyrun - agreed on your point #3 about the border breach is going to have serious consequences.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Hmmm, anyone else notice this was occurring during the AT&T network failure? Both AT&T releases said "this was not a cyber attack or hack" and blamed it on a badly coded software update... Why not say it was due to a bad software update without mentioning cyber attack or hacking?"

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Hmmm, anyone else notice this was occurring during the AT&T network failure? Both AT&T releases said "this was not a cyber attack or hack" and blamed it on a badly coded software update... Why not say it was due to a bad software update without mentioning cyber attack or hacking?"

It certainly is curious.

Woody

 

[-Pjackso]

Completely unrelated, Anyone know what wattage laser is needed to pop balloons?

 

[SoonerP226]

Why not say it was due to a bad software update without mentioning cyber attack or hacking?

Because people were already speculating that it was a cyber attack or hacking. People leap to that conclusion anytime there's any kind of service outage.

 

[SoonerP226]

Whether it was a hobbyist balloon

Why, in the name of all that's holy, would we want to spend millions of dollars to shoot down a hobbyist's balloon?

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Why, in the name of all that's holy, would we want to spend millions of dollars to shoot down a hobbyist's balloon?

Because we're all so insecure.

 

[ssgrock3]

we should shoot it with another million dollar missile, lol...Raytheon needs more money

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Because people were already speculating that it was a cyber attack or hacking. People leap to that conclusion anytime there's any kind of service outage.

I think just saying "bad update" would have been more definitive and authoritative. Including that hasn't excluded it in the minds of many, plus doubling down on it.