Rest easy fellow patriots, the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade will no longer be terrorizing our skies with their $12 pico balloons after being annihilated by our big, beautiful $400,000 sidewinder missiles.

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$400,000 sidewinder missiles

Imagine if that money was instead given as grant to meteorology hobby groups in Illinois, instead of using that money to blow up their shit.

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they did, what was the last barometric reading when the missile popped? crucial data right there

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If China simply released a few hundred thousand dollars worth of balloons, they could exhaust the entirety of America’s air defense munitions.

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How do I join the pico-ballooning enthusiasts’ community

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Get a ham radio license (requires study, but only costs $15 every 10 years in the US), learn how APRS, works, and attach a transmitter to a balloon. Along the way of learning this stuff, you’ll encounter various groups who do it.

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Apparently the one over Lake Huron took 2 Siderwinders to shoot down, implying they somehow missed a stationary balloon the first time. Which frankly means the balloon won.

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