So let me try to offer some perspective on this event. Everything that the military has done up to this point is based on the assumption that the aerial device might be contaminated with a bioweapon and the innocent-looking "civilian project weather balloon" is used as a trojan horse to secretly infect the US populace with it.
They didn't shoot it down over the continent, because that would guarantee that any pathogen onboard the craft would eventually find its way to the water supply. However, they needed to shoot it down over an easily-accessible location so they could retrieve it for research. Thats why they chose the east coast of Carolinas to shoot it down, because the currents will dissipate any potential pathogens out into the ocean before the craft is removed from the water.
Thats why they waited with shooting it down and thats why they will wait a few days before fetching it out of the ocean.
So let me try to offer some perspective on this event. Everything that the military has done up to this point is based on the assumption that the aerial device might be contaminated with a bioweapon and the innocent-looking "civilian project weather balloon" is used as a trojan horse to secretly infect the US populace with it.
They didn't shoot it down over the continent, because that would guarantee that any pathogen onboard the craft would eventually find its way to the water supply. However, they needed to shoot it down over an easily-accessible location so they could retrieve it for research. Thats why they chose the east coast of Carolinas to shoot it down, because the currents will dissipate any potential pathogens out into the ocean before the craft is removed from the water. Thats why they waited with shooting it down and thats why they will wait a few days before fetching it out of the ocean.
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WhyTF did I conflate balloons with cavemen???