Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say

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    Russian drones full of DSLR cams and Chinese spy balloons filled with Ti-84’s and Ring doorbells. This future feels like we all fell into the dollar store dimension.

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      Given the distance from China, and assuming it had no satellite communication hardware, are there any other ways data could have transmitted that sort of distance?

      Sincerely wondering/asking

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        Yeah that’s a good question. I can’t imagine the plan was for the Chinese to actually physically retrieve the balloon to get the data…