It was in commercial flight paths as well.
OK, you’re wrong…that’s a depiction of “Tomorrow is Yesterday”, episode 19 of season 1, in which the Enterprise is thrown back in time by an encounter with a “dark star” and ends up in Earth’s atmosphere, where it appears on radar as a UFO, and is intercepted by an F-104.
The crew rescues the pilot, detaining him to avoid disclosing information about the starship, and beams down to the Air Force base to destroy to film footage of the intercept. They later realize they have to return the pilot (whose son will play an important role in space exploration in the future) in order to avoid changing history.
It was the first episode that dealt with time travel.
Tomorrow Is Yesterday - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
memory-alpha.fandom.com
Fair enough.Might have been the first unintentional case of time travel in the series. There was an unintentional case where a planet implosion caused them to go back a few days. I think that ended where Spock said that they could use the data to figure out how to intentionally time travel.
The Naked Time (episode)
The Enterprise crew catch a virus that removes their inhibitions. The USS Enterprise orbits the planet Psi 2000, a world that was much like Earth in its distant past, tasked to observe the planet's impending disintegration. Lieutenant Commander Spock and Lieutenant junior grade Joe Tormolen beam...
BUT everybody is obviously better than those who shot it down bc of national outrage. Kind of an admission that american citizens ARE more expert.
Tell me again how much time you’ve got in air to air gunnery…
I asked a similar question,as it was explained, the altitude was too high for the first balloon. Dont know enough about the second event yet.
Because the military knows for a fact that "poking a few holes" in these balloons doesn't work. The missiles cost over $300k too, not $100k.
I didn't see the other thread, sorry.
They tried that before does not work
The A10 can't fly that high (A10 ammunition and the frequent necessary barrel replacement is not cheap either). Fighter planes are no longer equipped with a machine gun at all, as air to air combat is based on missiles.
And you can be certain that every minute detail about this was shared by Canadian military with their US counterparts, just as a professional courtesy. The Brits tried to shoot it down as well and were unsuccessful.
The other thread isn't the definitive answer. As has been explained, the military kinda knows what they're doing when it comes to certain situations. All of the armchair, Monday-morning quarterbacking just gets silly.... They could have shot it down over land if it was deemed that critical. They said they were jamming outgoing communication from the balloon at that point so waiting until it was over water was the best idea. In fact, the president told them to shoot it down on Wednesday when it was safe to do so and they waited....
