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Things that make you go hmmm

OK, so a couple of "balloons" from "China" were seen floating over the Americas.

After a guy photographed one... we soon find out that they are weather balloons and they are from China.
Questions, lots of Questions:

• Does it say anywhere on there "property of China"
• Was it broadcasting in Chinese?
• Why did the military wait so long to shoot it down?
• Shoot it down over water? So, instead of hitting some cows that might be out there, you hit some poor fisherman?
• Shoot it down over water.... so that you can say it sunk and you have no record of it?
• Shoot it down over water... so no "citizen" runs up and takes pictures of it laying on the ground?
• Why was it flying so low? Weather balloons are much higher
• If it was a spy balloon, why wasn't it flying higher?
• If it is a spy balloon, how are the Chinese supposed to get the information? If they are broadcasting the images back to China, i really want that tech! Wireless internet around the world, here we come!
• If it is broadcasting, then have we found all the "Chinese" radio receivers dotted across The US?
• Did the Chinese expect to pick this up after it flew over The US and then watch the VHS tape????

This story makes no sense

Here is a meme that makes much more sense

There is a video of some amateur rocket guys launching a big amateur rocket.
It flies quickly straight up, and up and up, spinning as it does... and then just stops.
It sounds like it was trying to fly through water.

Or, in other words, the firmament.

If the firmament exists, and there is a lot of evidence it does, then satellites are not in space, they are up next to the firmament.

And what would they look like? Pretty much just like this balloon that was found floating over America.

The problem is that we have no actual proof one way of the other.
We are told lies, and lies upon lies, with a hint of truth.

We are told that most of the satellites are launched from China these days.
A country that until very recently could not make a ball point pen all by themselves.
(They had been relying on precision metal balls and sleeves from Germany because they didn't have the tech to make those items themselves)

All the stories about where and what satellites are, all raise questions.
And the people who really follow this stuff, say that the Hubble space telescope is actually mounted in an big jet plane, raises even MORE questions. (they have pictures of it...)

Which is funny, because it should be fairly easy to use amateur astronomy equipment to verify that a satellite is up there where they say it should be, and all the astronomers who cared to verify just punch the coords into their telescope, and all see the same thing...

But, even though i have been involved in building satellites, i have never seen one in space.
And when setting up satellite receiver dishes, the angles are not correct for something in geosynchronous orbit.

All images in this post are my own original creations.