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Steve,<div><br></div><div>What you may be missing (although its importance may be debatable) is that if somehow one ‘pricked’ the balloon, it would continue to drift ‘horizontally’ for some distance. It would land farther from shore, in deeper water, and be harder to retrieve.</div><div><br></div><div> — Mike Alexander<br><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 1:00 PM, Ted Kochanski <tedpkphd@gmail.com> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv0655223444"><div><div dir="ltr">Balloon seems to be white -- so probably not that easy to "poke a hole" with a laser -- you need to get a fair amount of power onto the balloon MW/sq m and hold it there for enough time to evaporate the plastic<div>We have some R&D tech that could do that at the right kind of range -- but it might not be in the right place to be used because of the curvature of the earth</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Cannon fire from a fighter would seem to be the best approach</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Ted</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0655223444gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv0655223444gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br clear="none">From: <strong class="yiv0655223444gmail_sendername">Steve Isenberg</strong> <span><<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:smisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:smisenberg@gmail.com">smisenberg@gmail.com</a>></span><br clear="none">Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:40 PM<br clear="none">Subject: Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] ufo<br clear="none">To: Robert Primak <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com">bobprimak@yahoo.com</a>><br clear="none">Cc: Lex Computer Group <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">So they shot down the balloon with a missile, it totally deflated, and fell into the water where they have to search to find it, and the impact with the water may have damaged things.<br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">Did anyone consider: Poke a hole in the balloon (using a laser perhaps) that would cause it to descend rather than fall rapidly to the ground.</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">(Or am I missing something?)</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;">-steve<br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394;"><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0655223444gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv0655223444gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:46 AM Robert Primak <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com">bobprimak@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv0655223444gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">Current terms: UAP = Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. IAP = Identified Aerial Phenomenon. </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Current status of balloons = deflated. (Formerly known as "shot down".)</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">-- Bob Primak </div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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