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  It took Lockheed Martin 1.2 billion dollars just to make the hand that holds the needle
context: I have this cartoonish scenario in my mind where a missile is shot up, and just as it get to the balloon, it suddenly stops and hangs in mid-air as the tip opens up, and a mechanical hand holding a needle emerges. *POP!* xD >
  
  It took Lockheed Martin 1.2 billion dollars just to make the hand that holds the needle >
  
  "There's no way the Americans will notice a bright white balloon the size of a city block slowly hovering overhead for nearly a week" 
  -Chinese government >
  
  In Bakersfield, Visalia, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Modesto, Stockton, Sacramento to Red Bluff, they might not. >
  
  Thank God our long national nightmare is over. >
  
  Alright ww3 yet? >
  
  Nah. >
  
  Puts on China >
  
  I have this cartoonish scenario in my mind where a missile is shot up, and just as it get to the balloon, it suddenly stops and hangs in mid-air as the tip opens up, and a mechanical hand holding a needle emerges. *POP!* xD