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  There are only a handful of dedicated anti-aircraft weapons that can fire that high from the ground and most if not all of them are missiles. Even what is probably the most famous ant-aircraft gun the German 88 only had a ceiling of about 30-35k feet. So, even the rednecks with anti-air cannons are probably out of luck.
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. >
  
  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!" >
  
  Mitt Romney was talking shit about the balloon yesterday and he's supposed to be one of the sane ones >
  
  Hate to break it to you but there's no such thing as a "sane one" >
  
  He's a vulture venture capitalist but he doesn't like the whole dictatorship Trump deal. >
  
  He's fine with Republican dictatorship.  He just doesn't want it to be so crass and uncouth. >
  
  He wants an oligarchy not a dictatorship >
  
  yeah, much better to have like 15 capitalist overlords who are competent at oppressing people than one dolt grifter who gets puppeteered by whoever /s >
  
  Just shoot unparabolically >
  
  I think That might be impossible. Even if you shoot straight up. It will still make a very acute parabolic arc >
  
  Then why is the phrasing “if it comes down parabolically?” >
  
  It's like 65,000 feet in the air. There are no guns that can shoot that down from the ground. But I imagine there's a few rednecks with Anti air cannons in montana