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  My memory might be failing me, but arent they also agents Jay and Kay?
context: 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. >
  
  Hand guns aside. What about hunting rifle type ammo I'm sure that's what someone would more likely use. >
  
  You might get something like 10,000ft give or take out of a .30-06. The balloon is at something like 65,000ft if I remember right. >
  
  So with a 6.5 PRC which is a tiny but wicked fast round will drop out of supersonic speeds at about 5000 feet horizontal. 30-06 is a bigger round that will drop velocity even faster. I really doubt you could come close to 10,000 feet. Especially since you can't actually shoot as far stright up than you can horizontal. I don't think there is any handheld gun that could even get a quarter of the way to it. >
  
  I pulled that number from Wired who pulled it from MythBusters. All I can really guarantee is that unless some shit has really changed with firearms or physics in the last few months I believe you about any handheld guns not getting a quarter of the way there. >
  
  Well first you have to float up next to it with your own balloon and lawn chair… >
  
  You mean a shotgun fired from the ground won't reach a balloon 60,000 feet in the stratosphere? I'm shocked. /S >
  
  18.2 km for those who don't know the length of a given foot. >
  
  How many hogsheads is that? >
  
  "She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene." >
  
  What country was this car made in? >
  
  It no longer exists. >
  
  r/unexpectedsimpsons >
  
  "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 >
  
  took me forever to realize, as an American, that his name is "Zed" as in how the letter Z is said in parts of the world. He's agent Z. >
  
  It is actually spelled out as Zed in the movie. I agree with the pronunciation thing, but he is Zed in the movie.