I am all for shooting anything coming from outer space

https://youtu.be/UXUFHimIEP4

:haha:

And another one.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64614098

99 ballons minus 3 means 96 more to come. :D

I think we are dealing with copycats.

Someone are making these object.

Markus

It's .. beautiful :haha: :har:

https://i.imgur.com/27qwFEx.jpg


The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of fire power. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the war ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves. In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English: "Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "I think of you and let it go.”

don't know Markus i don't think balloons be too cheap

Well, I can get 6000 ft above sea level too if I climb a lil.

:hmmm: Hmmm.



I wonder if firing the round from the more rarefied atmosphere found at that height would produce a benefit. Maybe instead of going up 16k the round goes up to 20kft.

And down below is Armistead and August gauging the distance wondering what it would take to pop a balloon.

February 4th Chinese spy craft shot down. Friday an ‘object’ was shot down over Alaska and a RADAR anomaly was searched for but not found near California. Saturday an ‘object’ was shot down over the Yukon Territory. Today another object was shot down over Lake Huron.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot over? Balloon’s have been observed and tracked over this continent for decades, now suddenly they are perceived as threats that to be shot down. Makes me wonder why the Pentagon is working overtime to show how important is.

Oh, that’s right the Biden administration is preparing to ask Congress for the largest Pentagon budget in history, at the same time the debt ceiling raises the specter of deep cuts to the military’s funding plans.

I got my trusty 50 cal black powdered rifle ready and thought maybe 500 grains would do the trick.