Originally published at: Satellite image reveals China's secret military blimp | Boing Boing
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Jamey Jacobs said a blimp like this could be used as a “submarine of the skies,”
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For context, that’s pretty small for a blimp. Most Goodyear blimps are about twice that long, and even the relatively puny Metlife Snoopy blimps are a bit longer than that.
The article doesn’t speculate whether or not this thing is unmanned, but I’d say there’s a decent chance that it isn’t carrying pilots.
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Funny how the press has discovered Google Maps all of a sudden. Slow news day? Have interns scour Google Earth for interesting imagery.
From 2018:
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“His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking.” This is followed by Kirk’s inspired use of the enterprise as if was a world war two submarine, instead of a vessel fully capable of three dimensional maneuvering.
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But that would lead to wonky angles, and we can’t have that!
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Might be something similar to the US’s plans for using high altitude lighter-than-air vehicles to monitor weapons tests, or just to provide communications for military forces in remote areas:
It’s nowhere as cool as the US Navy’s USS Macon:
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But surely the Blimp would just fly overhead, take some photos and then some website in China will do a story that they’ve found the American Blimp. Which then…. Continue until leaders learn its better to spend money on universal health care than loads of fucking blimps taking pictures of blimps taking pictures of blimps.
It’s blimps all the way down.
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That wasn’t meant to be a reply to you @MikeR its just I’m an idiot.
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Hardly the first flying submariner. But definitely the least fabulous.
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Welcome to the club - we should get T-shirts.
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We’d print the t-shirts wrong.
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“You can expect because it’s available via satellite imagery that we’re tracking the object,” the official said.
Oh yeah? You only found out about the last one when it showed up over Montana. So pardon me if I take this claim with just a pinch of salt.
fixed it.
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Propaganda much? Blimps? spy balloons? Inflation conflation.
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Hot air is real.
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This is the dumbest anti-China scare story yet.
ERMAGHERD DEY GOT A BLIMP!
Come on, CNN, do better. 
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Meh, any aircraft can hit the sea. Flying off again after, well…
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