So a 60 million dollar airplane used a ton of fuel and an expensive missile to drop a balloon that might have been built and launched for 100 dollars? Those numbers are just guesses on my part, but even if I'm off by a couple orders of magnitude, it still makes me say "huh".
If they had shot it with the guns, it would have settled peacefully on the chase ship and they could have looked for the "MADE IN CHINA" logo.So a 60 million dollar airplane used a ton of fuel and an expensive missile to drop a balloon that might have been built and launched for 100 dollars? Those numbers are just guesses on my part, but even if I'm off by a couple orders of magnitude, it still makes me say "huh".
I think the should have caught it with a hook of some sort and brought it back to earth intact.So a 60 million dollar airplane used a ton of fuel and an expensive missile to drop a balloon that might have been built and launched for 100 dollars? Those numbers are just guesses on my part, but even if I'm off by a couple orders of magnitude, it still makes me say "huh".