[quote=Halo]
I think it's a pretty interesting engineering project, a cool idea for a music video, and utterly irresponsible and moronic. I'm not precisely a stickler for following the law to the letter, but , there's laws against this stuff for a reason.
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Yeah, they were pretty irresponsible about it. I'm sure they could have gotten into contact with relevant authorities to get permission to do it, and then it would probably been put on whatever sort of map commercial airplanes use as a weather balloon so they'd know to avoid it. Then the police who found the thing could have just called it in and be told in a few minutes that it's a harmless pizza-balloon for a music video and not a bomb. Really a lot of trouble could have been avoided, but I still like their music.