Spoiler: It’s a weather balloon. They made it pink because it was breast cancer awareness month (I don’t fucking know, visibility I guess)
The Golden Gate Bridge is bright red-orange because that’s the most visible color against the blue sea. I’d assume similar colors are used to contrast against the sky. Much like that (creepy by association) teal that’s used for medical accessories, which contrasts with blood.
I can’t say that’s going on with this bouncy ball, but painting things a bright color that contrasts with nature is a thing we do.
Plot twist, it was the only ball sowjets have - that’s why sowjets were so good at hockey.
He bounced three meters in the air, then he bounced 1.8 meters in the air, then he bounced four meters in the air.
It’s from the same research programme that developed Rover, the spherical hunter-killer sentry used to guard secret facilities in the 1960s.
They used so much knockout gas back then.
Now I wonder if the soccer ball Putin gave to Trump is still in the White House / Smithsonian archives, or if Trump took it.
IMO It should be in the archives as a badge of shame for the US.
A gifted football is hardly a batch of shame.
China gifted Germany two pandas who live in the Berlin zoo. They cost us around 2 million euros a year in upkeep iirc. Now that’s a gift with a baggage.
Panda diplomacy! Happens across the globe so often it has a wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_diplomacy
