tiredretired
The Old Salt
So please, someone tell me who in their right friggin' mind would go up in a hot air balloon ride these days with Quick Draw Bidet blowing everything and anything that even remotely looks like a balloon out of the sky. 
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Hot Air Ballon Ride anyone???
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tiredretired
The Old Salt
As I understand it, they now cost $472,000 a pop and the first one missed. So, that $12.00 balloon now costs $944,000.00.
Wonder how they explained the miss? How are they going to protect America if the pilots cannot hit a balloon?
The same idea occurred to me so, I did a bunch of research.
Seemingly, shooting helium filled balloons, especially at altitude, doesn't work all that well. There was a long explanation of why it didn't work which I didn't fully understand. I think that it's akin to bullet proof, self healing fuel tanks on aircraft.
The Canadians tried to shoot one down, they think that they hit it about 20 times and it just kept going ... all the way across the Atlantic. The British and then the French tried to shoot it down and again they failed. I think that it finally "bled out" and came down in the Alps.