That was a pole, not a stick. The tourist was pole-ish('d).

Oh, you misunderstand. I meant it more like Are you for real? Because I smell bullshit.

Well that deflated my expectations

lmao. might as well be seperated lol

"Deviated from course" by 15,000 km?

We should send a civilian aircraft carrier for "research."

"Don't your citizens have these too?"

Might be me, but it seems pretty easy to sort out the differences between a Polish tourist and a Mexican one.

It's just one Chinese dude in a hot-air balloon with a pair of binoculars. Let him think he's helping...

Or a pilots uniform. You can get just about anywhere when you walk briskly in a pilots uniform. I’ve been upstairs in the White House while the Obamas were sleeping.

Should've worn a high vis jacket and a hard hat and you would have been fine

To me if you violate a countries sovereign airspace you should expect to be shot at. That goes for all sides.

You misspelled cia :p

Nice try. I used this excuse when I tied a bunch of balloons to myself and hopped the fence at Area-51, had a clipboard and everything, they didn't buy it.

You can still climb some of them

No. I’m just responding to what you said. If Google maps is irrelevant to you, then why’d you bring it up?

But also, satellites are really really high up so they can only see so close to the ground without the resolution getting blurry. China’s tech is outdated compared to ours too. I’m just theorizing what close up surveillance could accomplish. Not assuming what is going on. We don’t know what the balloon has been doing. But it’s out there for some reason.

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Satellite data on Google maps is always outdated. Montana has missile silos and rival countries sometimes want to monitor new developments up close. Idk what the balloon is exactly for, but to say any surveillance is useless is wrong.

Climbing is not prohibited because it’s sacred, but rather a bit over a decade ago they determined that it was being damaged by the constant flood of tourists, so now it’s posted that climbing it is prohibited.

If you want to climb a Mayan pyramid in Yucatán, there are plenty of other sites that permit it.

considering Nick discretely fucks another man in the text of The Great Gatsby, there’s a very good chance conservatives would try to ban it

It's quite different when you are on the other end of the stick. Many people just no longer recognise the situation.

"Yeah, I wouldn't stone them... I have other people to do that for me"

Or should make a tongue-in-cheek declaration explicitly excluding this asshat every other sentence mentioning this recording and alluding to anyone else like him.

Good point!

...and because they weren't the first to come up with it and publicize it.

If it is the pyramid I think it is. It is a fake pyramid rebuilt as a tourist attraction by the have government to help boost tourism numbers and was embellished in the design to how they'd imagine it should look and has no sacredness to it.

Reason they can't go up it is because the steps are too narrow and steep.

Equivalent to the whole headscarf thing. They only was introduced relatively recently but people think the headscarves have been a a traditional head wear for women for eons.