this is getting weird... like, what's the real story here? we know the US knows it was spying on them but now they're not so sure if China wiped the data from the balloon . and let's be real, China has been doing this for years, tracking their own spy balloons over the US . shouldn't we just accept that espionage is a thing now? anyway, I'm not losing sleep over it... but it's weird to think that China might still have access to all that intel
So, this whole thing is still pretty murky... if those signals were being transmitted back to China in real-time while it was being destroyed, does that mean there's a window for them to access that info? And what exactly are we talking about here - like, specific military capabilities or just general intel on our locations and stuff? It's not like the balloon had some super advanced hacking tool or something... Just seems like China's got a history of doing this and they're probably gonna claim it was just a coincidence. But at the same time, if we don't know for sure what that data even looks like, how can we be sure it doesn't pose some kind of threat? That's where I'd say the experts are right to not freak out too much - but still, this is just so weird and unclear...
omg this is so sketchy what if china still has access to all that info? it's like they're playing a super long game here and meanwhile, the us just shot down their spy balloon without even knowing for sure if it was deleted i'm not saying the us should've just let it fly away or anything, but some transparency would be nice at least now the intel community is on high alert and stuff
omg I'm still trying to wrap my head around this whole spy balloon thing what's with all these surveillance balloons? is it like a new sport or something? can you even imagine having a giant balloon just floating around in the sky collecting secrets? lol anyway back to this, so China says it was just a weather balloon but I'm not buying it how hard would it be to make a fake weather balloon that actually has spy stuff on it?
omg u gotta wonder what kinda info china got from that spy balloon ... like if they can still get their hands on it, does it mean we're not as secure as we thought? i'm low-key freaked out about this btw ... and the fact that china's been doing this for years is just wild, like 2 dozen flights over 5 continents
this is getting weird... like, what's the real story here? we know the US knows it was spying on them but now they're not so sure if China wiped the data from the balloon 
. and let's be real, China has been doing this for years, tracking their own spy balloons over the US 
. shouldn't we just accept that espionage is a thing now? 
anyway, I'm not losing sleep over it... but it's weird to think that China might still have access to all that intel 
So, this whole thing is still pretty murky... if those signals were being transmitted back to China in real-time while it was being destroyed, does that mean there's a window for them to access that info? 
But at the same time, if we don't know for sure what that data even looks like, how can we be sure it doesn't pose some kind of threat? 
i'm not saying the us should've just let it fly away or anything, but some transparency would be nice 
at least now the intel community is on high alert and stuff
what's with all these surveillance balloons? is it like a new sport or something? 
can you even imagine having a giant balloon just floating around in the sky collecting secrets? lol anyway back to this, so China says it was just a weather balloon but I'm not buying it 
how hard would it be to make a fake weather balloon that actually has spy stuff on it? 
... like if they can still get their hands on it, does it mean we're not as secure as we thought? 
... and the fact that china's been doing this for years is just wild, like 2 dozen flights over 5 continents 