• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To clarify, Miley calls it a spy balloon- just one that failed because it was blown off course (it’d motor was too weak to work against the wind)

    So it was still a spy balloon whose purpose was failed because of a laughably foreseeable problem. (Anyone whose flown air balloons- including the dinky micro-R/C knows that you have to plan around winds and the drag forces of the wind pushing you.)

    • KaiReeve@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      So, instead of “not collecting intelligence” it should read “unable to collect intelligence” or maybe even “collecting inconsequential intelligence”