OK Shelalmyst. Evelything crear once you re-edrucated.
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Hmm⌠Have The Guardian been reading my posts?
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and I just added 99 more targets 
jk
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The unidentified flying object shot down in Canadian airspace on Saturday appeared to be a âsmall, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it,â according to a Pentagon memo sent to lawmakers on Monday and obtained by CNN
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I start to think that weâre just really, really bad at identifying stuffâŚ
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Itâs spreading.
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There used to be a member here, @zsigmond (he hasnât posted for a long time). He worked for the US Weather Bureau in northern Alaska. His job was to go out every morning into the frozen wastes, dodge hungry polar bears, and release a weather balloon. The balloons would float high into the atmosphere, and would radio back information about GPS position, temperature, air pressure, humidity and such.
He did this every day. He must have released thousands. Nobody ever explained what became of the old balloons.
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I miss @zsigmond . He may be behind this whole thing. 
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He wouldnât start a war with China, though. Not deliberately. Well, not unless there was a lot of Jack Daniels involvedâŚ
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He probably unlocked the mystery that awaits in NMS after traversing all galaxies 5 times and got sucked into a black hole to an alternate universe or somethinââŚ
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Itâs an intriguing thought.
Sadly, though, the truth is that the Weather Bureau replaced his job with an automated facility, and moved him to Ohio. He was no longer stuck in a frozen hut for 16 hours a day with only penguins for company, and NMS lost much of its attraction.
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and now mysterious objects are appearing in the skies over Alaska and Canada? 
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Ah, the plot thickens. âU.S. shoots down its own UFOâsâ. State Senator Elmer Bogbean told our reporter âItâs our rain. Itâs 'Murican rain, and itâs secret. Donât want no forâners spyin on our rain. Kill them all, praise the Lordâ.
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But is it normal rainâŚ
Or is itâŚ
Chubby Rain
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That⌠doesnât sound that sad, if you put it like thatâŚ
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Oh good Lord no! Cainât be drinkinâ no Wuhan rain! Ainât no tellinâ what it sucked up off the ground and they cainât have none uh ours either. I donât buy inta none of this âcirculatinâ the globeâ theory. What kinda woke idea is that? Everone whoâs anyone knows the earth is flat. No! They best keep their clouds on their side and we be keepinâ ours. Praise the Lord! He is good.
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On a more serious note, here is a nice little informative article about weather balloons.
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Amateur balloonist group from Illinois says small balloon last reported over Alaska âmissing in actionâ
On a more serious note, Russia is using balloons to block radar and spy on Ukraine. This is likely the reason for all the balloon popping. No way would they tell the general public because people in US would run out with their guns and shoot everything in the sky
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In an attempt to combine nuclear protection with surveillance capabilities, Russian scientists have been experimenting with lead balloons. Once they had shot any scientists who disagreed with the program, Kremlin officials reported a great success.
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Well, I mean, the Zeppelin was great, so it stands to reason⌠
Yes, I know itâs not written like thatâŚ
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