padremike wrote:
With air resistance acting on an object that has been dropped, the object will eventually reach a terminal velocity, which is around 53 m/s (190 km/h or 118 mph. No speed of sound, peg, which is 761mph at sea level on a normal day. I believe I heard that the missile we used needed a solid target hence the payload of the balloon is what was hit. I expect if true it was deliberate making it almost impossible to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Are you saying the Biden Administration deliberately did not want to know things about the Chinese spy balloon ?