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Of data, because they were flying over an intercontinental ballistic missile site, over montana, which the us military typically tries to protect. people at first thought, why balloons? but i guess your point is that there are things balloons offer that satellites and other techniques might not. it can be hard to distinguish where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say its coming from x countrys military, but with a balloon, its more benign. and so beijing t...

Pressure on tiktok from the white house and capitol hill and, of course, is happening at the same time that you have conflict over the spy balloon and china and russia renewing, you know, ties and strengthening ties with regard to russias war in ukraine. how does this tiktok element impact the bigger picture? do you think david okay . you know, for years weve been saying that there is a new cold war brewing. now in the past couple of weeks, we have just begun to see the outlines of it hardening ...

The Hawaii County Mayors office announced Wednesday that from March 23-25, two stratospheric balloons will be launched off the Northern coast of the Big Island.

But its thought that these kinds of balloons can go up to twice that altitude. and to really understand why theyre so useful to china, we need to look at a weather map. wind speeds vary hugely depending on how high up you are. and at the altitude where this balloon was flying, there is a very stable and predictable wind pattern between china and north america. so what are the balloons actually being used for? the answer is espionage. they carry sensors to collect signals and data as they fly ove...

Happening here to america. and if we dont speak stronger, china will continue to do this. scramble some more f—22 raptors, throw some lead in that sucker. trump wanted to nuke a hurricane. you guys wont even throw a dart at a balloon? there was outcry in america as to why a massive spy balloon had not been spotted and shot down earlier. but that meant in the next few days, they were now seeing many more of what were described not as balloons, but objects. if anything enters into our airspace, ...

To police our airspace, which is incredibly important. so what are the challenges in dealing with these balloons? were going to bring back our graphic for this part. flying a spy plane lower in the atmosphere would be seen as an aggressive act and much more deliberate than just releasing a balloon into the wind. and meanwhile, a satellite up in space is not seen as such a problem. but balloons are in a kind of grey area in between — and harder to spot. they also pose particular challenges to t...

Suite of operations that chinas undertaking to try and get a better understanding of us. .. i got it. i mean, theres all sorts of suites of operations we have with whats going on in outer space. but the question is, did we know what that balloon was trying to gather? do we know what information it was trying to gather from the united states? it didnt fly over us by accident. it was intentional. do we know what the chinese communist government was looking for? senator, we have some very good gues...

Rounds have gone straight through the balloon, not gone off, in the sense that the rounds havent exploded because the skin of the balloon is too insubstantial to trigger the fuse. and so theyve just put tiny holes in them, which doesnt really cause them to leak at any particularly significant rate, and theyve just continued. and of course, if its over a civilian area or, say, the continental united states, a large area, you have to be very careful where youre firing cannon rounds because those w...

Which the us military typically tries to protect. people at first thought, why balloons? but i guess your point is that there are things balloons offer that satellites and other techniques might not. it can be hard to distinguish where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say its coming from x countrys military, but with a balloon, its more benign. and so beijing tried to say that it was being used for meteorological purposes. a bit of deniability about what t...

Were going to bring back our graphic for this part. flying a spy plane lower in the atmosphere would be seen as an aggressive act and much more deliberate than just releasing a balloon into the wind. and meanwhile, a satellite up in space is not seen as such a problem. but balloons are in a kind of grey area in between — and harder to spot. they also pose particular challenges to the military in working out how to take them down. i suspect theres probably a desire to find a way to deflate any ...