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  It doesn't help that right wing failed candidates are posting pictures on Twitter suggesting they're going to take out the balloon with a shotgun. Their indoctrinated followers with terminally low critical thinking skills see that and think "well if she's doing it too, it's my time to shine!"
context: Well first you have to float up next to it with your own balloon and lawn chair… >
  
  Hold my beer…… >
  
  Your lawn chair has a beer holder, Uncle Bill! >
  
  That's for whisky. >
  
  The hooker from last night? >
  
  Whatchu call me?! >
  
  r/beetlejuicing >
  
  r/lawnchairballoon >
  
  Funniest line / most realistic part from Independence Day: a quick pan across a TV newscast announcing "Police are once again asking residents not to shoot at the alien aircraft." >
  
  if I recall the graphic was a hand gun too. Like that's gonna make it up there. >
  
  A 9mm is probably going to shoot at a maximum of around 4000 feet.  A far cry of the height here.  As well a hand gun's bullets are a bit less stable than a rifle and that roughly 4000 is a perfect system weight / energy calculation.  Probably not over 1500 feet altitude with instability and angle being much less than 90 degrees. >
  
  I enjoy that I mentioned ID and you gave us physics education to class up my 27-year-old reference. Thank you! 😁 >
  
  "Authorities are asking Los Angelinos to not shoot at the alien space craft" >
  
  “For they may inadvertently start an intergalactic war.” >
  
  We're not hosting an intergalactic keger either. >
  
  . . . Zed >
  
  
  Who's Zed?
  
  Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead. >
  
  It’s not a motorcycle baby, it’s a chopper >
  
  I had to crash that Honda baby, now will you please come on? >
  
  It's eleven (corrected) miles away. You're not going to hit it. 
  Even if you do, it will be months before it actually has a noticeable effect. 
  I was a blimp mechanic. We had to do bullet inspections every so often, when the lift calculations showed that our helium purity was dropping. Because of the very low pressures that kept the blimp inflated (about 1 inch of water pressure), it literally took weeks before enough helium leaked out for us to even notice a pencil-sized hole in a blimp the size of a barn. 
  And that's for a blimp at an altitude of 1000 feet, not 60,000 feet. >
  
  Finally someone who knows what they are talking about.
  We'll need thousands of people shooting at it, with the smaller bullets pushing the bigger bullets, to bring this thing down. >
  
  F-22 unclass service ceiling is 65,000 - We could have dropped this with an AMRAAM days ago if it really mattered.
  Alas, the nation has a slight problem with education and while a small portion of gun owners are VERY knowledgeable about ballistics - most people have no clue.