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My understanding is we should wait until the balloon is accompanied by at least 98 others before we worry, worry, super-scurry, and call the troops out in a hurry.

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Referential humor should stay on Reddit. It's chuckle-worthy, sure, but this forum is one of the few places we have for serious discussion.

When people upvote jokes, the high-value expertise people freely share here gets drowned out, and will eventually disappear.

A more constructive interpretation of the parent comment would be that Nena was on to something.

It’s interesting to draw parallels from the Cold War to today, especially when they are so on the nose.

True, the overreaction to a balloon that triggers a real war seems like a totally realistic scenario nowadays.

I generally agree with you, but it's also okay to laugh on HN sometimes! We mustn't take ourselves too seriously.

Please be aware that furious clutching of pearls will not transmute them to diamonds.

There's a ufo truther article not far above, so citation needed on tgat.

AFAIK knights of the air riding super high-tech jet fighters could identify target as being ballon but not clarify target count nor classify target colour as being red. Target was nonetheless shot down as measurements fit within error margins.

Clearly development of higher-tech jet fighters must be funded ASAP.

Captcha updated to include question: "Pick images that have red ballons"

Captcha updated to include question: "Pick images that have 99 balloons"

F-35 software update deployment scheduled

In fairness the original sign was in German and IIRC doesn’t mention the color red anywhere

Right, but on the otherhand an unqualified "Luftballon" pretty much exclusively refers to party balloons so their scale calculations must have been wayy off - perhaps a metric vs. imperial unit mixup.

Also, I knew about the "red" in the english name, but had no idea how different the english lyrics for the song are.

Actually, we should very much avoid doing that so that we don't end up standing pretty In this dust that was a city, looking for a souvenir just to prove the world was here.

If there are many balloons other tactics would be used to take them down.

I think you missed the reference here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons

For the kids too young to know this classic song (99 Red Balloons - English version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc

I know of the song, also I think the song is known much more in Europe than in the US.

Looks like saving face and putting on a show for the concerned public. https://youtu.be/xuVk1zpp94k

This guy definitely is _the source_ I would use to get all my information. He has videos on every topic imaginable, I can only assume he's an expert in all of them.

Lol. I don't get how people find random people on youtube and then suddenly treat them on experts on all topics.

I think some people will actually think your post isn't sarcasm.

Got to admit - I suffer from a myriad of conscious and unconscious biases - didn't see that kind of rational thinking coming from "Beau of the Fifth Column".

I get puzzled about why people use such a low bandwidth medium as real time talking.if he put all that in a post it'd be a few hundred words and could be read in a minute.

I do agree but is anyone going to see that post? Even for Google searches (as opposed the video being pushed by the Youtube algorithm), videos are often ranked at/near the top.

This is it boys!

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