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the deep sleep is a means to read the surveillance infrastructure in our skies from the earth to the stratosphere. recently there are a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles that are made by companies whose clients are governments clipping information from salida networks on my boat communications these aircraft and they communications are outside of the denying of what is understood to be. civilian knowledge. they need to understand what's going on in. terms. we start to learning about drawings and the role a lot from the use of drones by the u.s. military contractors in places like thought i was just part of pakistan in yemen in somalia there was useful surveillance are dirt to be persistently in the year and

it's collecting everything to all the waves just them signals photography in for a riot we know but a little hole over the boat the actual peroration of surveillance drones in country in germany and other places because there's no way of gathering that information most of disapprobation is our secret. so the subject here is what would be referred to as the pile-o. day of our of our project is the very first version and it is it contains with radio frequency equipment. a very small computer. and a micro what's called a microcontroller which is a very simple sort of computer it's designed to go into the stratosphere carried by with a balloon. when you getting up into fifteen and twenty

your kilometers above the earth that's when you would really be above a drop and the satellites that they're. one of the hopes is that maybe we'll catch a little bit of that kind of thing and at least see evidence of communication going going upward. at the point of its absolute peak the balloon bursts and the parachute or the neck that it comes all the way back down again. we have a bunch of different things i'm telling us for receiving different kinds of reducing ups this one goes from zero to thirty megahertz that that's a lot of marine naval military stuff with is on time and we find for example mobile phones and these these some tell us are traditionally used to. look at satellites or receive signals from satellites but we're actually pointing at the words to just gigahertz receptions or transmissions

from what's going on below where this is in the sky initially we just need to get up there and and then look at that it's work in the movie able to make further adjustments and improve its. improve its performance. the first launch in the series. so we're just doing a full power start up test we want to know what we're actually taking out there when we go out there very soon and i fix it. i'll go outside for a little bit. i'm just waiting for it for a g.p.s. fix. this phone received the same as from the g.p.s. satellites. if it doesn't have

a fix it seems that it doesn't report to the position properly. giulio. nothing yet. written receptive then restored to it. i mean there's to restart. the connection. not really we have been running for a couple of days on one bettery and that was great but now. all of the batteries just drained extremely quickly and we don't know why. people don't see for them that you just load. was not good enough to use already so

we're really on the on this basis. we just horribly behind get it in the big jumps and. here's the knife. and yours in his fitness reach none last night i fall the day before was quite good you didn't have any and i know this went. well that's a good. start raking up until you have truly lost or just bloody my. it is it's a new season it's a good disease to have. i think when. there isn't one large contingency and that's the airspace will forty's. you would have just launched a balloon with a big shiny board underneath it full of computational quit without the paperwork a lot of paperwork i think.

to be safe. we will get a new battery tomorrow morning. because we really don't want it to fail ha ha for something like that. often almost something like. technology will not go away i would say it's a very serious thing every time something about how about us governments take one extra step towards that extending the surveillance of our

office. and that we have basically have no one. really momentum going the other way . it's very important to look at and draw study used for surveillance to collect data. it's creating an archive not just very much . this data is being used to define what is the standard behavior of a normal group or person and as an out food what is the outlier behavior and that creates a very sophisticated one way surveillance system. and is operating the grace fear of law. i was a human rights a regulation. the drawn in so it's just a flying object what matters is what kind of to what is being attacked and who is using dot information.

in psychiatry's an xterm tenet of pretends to be one of the official ones and makes the device communicate with them so it can be listened to. it's commonly known and psychiatrists are being muscled news by law enforcement in many countries and we know that i'm sick of as i use drones. if you think police departments now acquiring drone technology from small to big build such that they can be fitted with cameras then you can be sure that our skies

are going to be full of a hell of a lot of rights compromising mitchell quite clearly there's a lot of interest in making sure that we the people don't know about it and don't know the extent of it so how else learn some hardware what else i mean when i think . the major problem yesterday was the battery. and now we have well actually we've got another charger and we've got this and your battery as well. this is hundred and ten grams together and sending hundred ten grams extra up into the stratosphere doesn't make sense so what we're doing is just putting the right

kind of connector directly. on this box so we don't have. this dead weight. it will give us hopefully a couple of thousand meters of extra altitude before the balloon burst just based on the decreased weight. we're going to launch this thing into the stratosphere and them we will not see them for a few hours. hopefully we will see together. twenty two. to go. here go. in with the other person first.

never getting to yes. it's exciting to explore what is out there when we get the day come back if we. don't have to try to figure out what it extremist and what a comfort. we have no illusions of flipping over to read the contents of communication between mysterious high altitude vehicles and the satellites that i talk to. we are an interested and and fingerprinting devices providing material for people to be able to guess and ultimately determine what is in the skies above the. best attitude of twenty five point four kilometers and that would have one hundred one hundred fifty eight minutes to get there. hundred for fifty eight minutes to boost. we're just

looking at calculating how high it will get into and how much he leaves required because that indicates the the drift of the balloon potentially and it can make a difference between twenty kilometers and two hundred kilometers this is ok for us . but really. when london home. yeah we have to be prepared to to nurse and polish some polish and least the basic three things and. i use the fama family's farm and polish things bob is going to be a beginner at this and we can't really wait too long because we have pushing for a limited period of reverdy we're losing that commission as we as it is beach at. my connection at the moment is to is to pick a bit of diverse work this is. but if it would just come calms down a little bit there's a good vibe it's it's disheartening. so

you're good to see would be to launch now and then and then jump in the cargo and try to find it a bit of a drug overdose. you know. just . like the sale of the spear so. we can get bigger. and we can use these eggs too by the way. and. you. get. a clean. good.

it is very some of the certain kinds of squids the bodies of squid skin. that was easily as i reckon it's full of holes on both. the male worried about the body of the little. lower stress on the neck of the blue . you could have told a string the top was no joke it's like a it's a so don't don't well you have to be really really really really really really graphic novel to hands on the on the problem. it would be so obviously quite cathartic having support and sort of finished what is otherwise been quite a bit of work but i'm a little concerned about the way the blue lost for instance for the meterological community is three out of five last. night. everything this man accompanied in this we're not. going to really be doing this.

i worry about the kind of really lifts this way i mean it's supposed to. supposed to be able to you know so we're just like i shake hands. with one two three. trees. just a little. unbelievable in this it's pretty. incredible to turn this. and over to. where will this thing go who ever say to go.

so i was kind to an off hours came three hours kind four and five and then we started to become a little bit despondent damn you know we haven't. lost track of it so we went to bed and all those last words most and then sure enough the next morning we're going to finish and then go and i mean particularly it's kaliningrad it's flying out of kaliningrad and eventually a very uncomfortable silence from it and then another estimates and it landed in a field near minsk better or worse. several thousand kilometers away which is incredible where the blue went up to just over ten kilometers. and then it probably encountered high altitude winds and was pushed east at a massive at a massive speed. we

believe that that the deep sleep was the first civilian earth to stratosphere scan is routinely done by military but we believe with the first we've got plenty of interesting forms if you like shapes that indicate traffic and activity. if i just drop the scroll bar down we actually see the way forward presentation so this is the low low frequencies this is the mid range and this is the the high frequencies and we see as we go from dick dick across like this point to point we see. where there was there was in egypt phenomena the saying that there is peaks and drops and and rises and falls much like a mountain range i suppose. the low frequencies are predictably very

energetic you've obviously got a lot of moraine more to call astronomical in the sense of radio astronomy you've got a hell of a lot of stuff is known to be occurring there and it's predictably. high we started to see different things the higher we got and we see some very interesting traffic in the mid range ten kilometers above the earth and we start seeing activity in it at one thousand three hundred megahertz you know we start seeing this this stuff going on there and what's happening at that at that altitude at one thousand three hundred megahertz and that's curious for us. and then in the high. there were these very interesting sort of last minute bursts . no passenger planes to be flying at that time and they're not they're not

speaking of those frequencies anyway so. what is that. maybe it's a scientific project of some sort maybe it isn't a literary or whatever. there are some very distinct manmade shapes that you can only in what is that one of the doing it that our church i mean this is this is curious. we don't know what it is but it's. it's exciting to know that we can actually get up there and say it and do this. we we caught something obviously there. lots of people can do this it's not illegal to study the air above us says that the mains and not on the board .

will come up with a nice sort of respect how to do that noise get the data and upload it to this wiki and then we can stop comparing. were. monitored trucks quantify i'm valued missing data being a new car for weapons your data your identity is a commodity and you have to understand where i'm from or come from austria it is time to reclaim our cyber so you have to put in them a something that can all be sold we are creators we are optimists we are geeks give us back our data at this time on a does you know history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in

amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with pakistan this old building is being transformed into a new museum mallika ahluwalia is the driving force behind amritsar is partition museum it's really shocking because if you think about the fact that within a few years of nine eleven happening on nine eleven museum was that and they are now. numerous museum this is not beautiful a museum so countries around the world have walked a memorial lies these events that have shaped them by titian is not about the political events that led up to partition it's about the impact on each person who went through it it's really important that we highlight the stories of humanity hopefully one outcome on this would be that we remember our shared humanity and the shared history. well if we cannot have probably seen my government was certainly

not allow britain to control the french protestant would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east for more than a century to come i'm so. narrow we can draw. sikes pico lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. what we have seen so far is cruel and barbaric to top it off they have the gall to blame the media the united nations the pressure on myanmar's government over the crisis.