I find that it's easier to get the balloons buy creating one massive effing hailstone and drop it on a mass of the balloons. When the stone breaks apart, it creates stones that are usually large enough to take out the other balloons nearby.
Actually, this works for most of the levels. I thoroughly enjoyed dropping a 35m hailstone on a crowd of pedestrians at one point.
I knew this was a winner once Warren "God-damned" me. I don't think he curses people over mild net diversions. It takes serious, work-slowing netcrack to draw that sort of reaction from him. In truth, I feel a sense of shameful pride over that. It's something I can tell my grandchildren (or nephews or something) about. "Yes sirree, kids, Warren Ellis was one of the most brilliant comic writers of his generation. And I wasted his time with a goofy little flash game about breaking stuff with hail. Thus, I denied future generations a measure of his genius."
BTW, and this is to everyone, not just Warren, what the hell is that song that's playing in the game? It's burrowed into my mind and I must know what it is.
I'd like to draw attention to this question as, in the time following my discovery of this thread, I have come to wonder exactly the same thing.
From what I've been reading that big collective antenna can do far more than "analyze." Heck man the military is involved, and they only ever have one reason for analyzing anything. We all know what that is.