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balloons What is the first thing that comes to your mind when talking about balloons? Birthday? Oxygen cylinders? Or even maybe a gas balloon.
We haven’t heard much about spy balloons, but back in the days of the great French general Napoleon Bonaparte, the same balloon was used.
So what is that balloon? Such balloons, similar to birthday balloons, are filled with gas, usually helium – and they can reach heights of tens of thousands of meters and above commercial airplanes. Currents and air pressures that move the balloon serve as a kind of steering for the balloon.
Why are we talking about balloons? And more spy balloons?
For those who were not informed last Saturday night, the President of the United States Biden gave the green light to the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon that had been troubling the United States for many days.
Dropping the balloon was not possible when it was over inhabited places, as fragments of hundreds of kilograms could cause a disaster. Therefore, wait in the Pentagon for the moment the balloon reaches the ocean area – then, you already know what the end of each balloon is.
But the Americans are not stupid, and they dropped it on the territory of the country to study it, certainly in the shadow of China’s claims that it is merely a balloon for weather research purposes. So weather or espionage – that is the question; Whether it is an innocent balloon or a spy balloon, it is hard to tell.