So, back in the day there was a late night radio talk show host named Art Bell who talked about big foot, UFO's and weird shit. One night he reported on a major wild fire going on in the south east US and suggested to his audience to do a thought control experiment and told millions of his listeners to focus on sending rain to the effected areas of the raging fires.
He never tried the experiment again because the deluge that transpired out of nowhere caused mass flooding.
I say we repeat the experiment and all of us, in unison, direct our intentions to forming a lightening strike of such magnitude hitting that balloon, that it not only bursts the bubble but fries all the electronics on board.
What if it's filled with fentanyl? We might accidently kill millions with our "good intentions".
Why would it be filled with fentanyl, for heaven's sake. Like the poor cat in the adage, letting "I dare not!" wait upon "I would!" you people are.
PS You originally believed in the possibility of thought turning into a reality. If you have such faith you'd better discipline that thought to good outcomes instead of conjuring up the most horrible disasters.
This is a thought experiment, which has yielded good fruit if you read above.
The Fentanyl was not my idea but a logically suspicious poster earlier, saying since the balloon is a CCP soft attack, they may be testing the intelligence of our armed forces by daring them to blow up something that could kill millions in the process.
I'd say getting people to think about unintended consequences of well meaning decisions, if we had the power, was a success.
Since I actually have great faith in the consequences of thought, and prayer, I do consider that. There's some comfort in a catechism advice that God answers every *proper" prayer. Hoping for pain and destruction is not a proper prayer, or the landscape would be littered with charred corpses of annoying people. On a secular level, we have plenty of examples of "good" intentions having bad results, yet almost every one of those "unintended consequences" should have been foreseen, since there was more time and effort involved than just visualizing an outcome. As to the balloon, willing it to quietly deflate and sink seems to me more in the nature of a prayer than a secular plan, and prayer for protection from hostile forces is usually proper. It could be a weapon, as that very possibility was thought of in WWII by both the Japanese and the Americans: There are still a few reminders along the Oregon coast of lookout stations. But a high altitude balloon that could be eliminated in a fireball would be a risky and clumsy poison delivery system. I think another poster is probably right, it is our own balloon and the PTB don't want to admit it.