state of florida to try and address this the belief that this is the way to make americans safer when it comes to gun violence which is so prolific in the united states. just briefly we know that you're saying this administration is going to take a different approach in terms of the way gun violence interacts with mental health issues but what about gun control and stricter legislation we'd like to him much on that in the coming weeks or months. there's certainly going to be that effort of we've seen that already by some democratic lawmakers but you have to remember the very powerful national rifle association it receives millions in the united states to lobby lawmakers to keep gun control from being put in place there have been repeated efforts in the u.s. congress to bring about stricter gun laws but right now we have a republican president we have two chambers in the u.s. congress controlled by republicans they're largely not receptive to seeing any sort

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i have a strong sense of urgency to see a launch. what i was aware of though is my sense of urgency can. often cloud my better judgment and i can assist i'm doing something that is just simply a. high risk you don't want to write off my plan that is going to bite off. they're going to break. with a goddess. julien's i don't. face those and for quite some time of course myself a critical engineer also an artist but a first first first and foremost a credit engineer. one of the things that i do mind work is to create projects which engender

a healthy paranoia. for projects like min which was two thousand and nine. we wandering around various cities trista's in grey suits with suitcases that had displays on them. collecting and harvesting checked stations and websites. and presenting on the surface of this briefcase. we chiefs have a lot of paranoia and. when you start to show that technology is not necessarily being transparent in itself as to your dealings with it you see some pretty darned pretty interesting moments jaws open. people gave me friends running i've been checking. many of us have known for a long time and even warned against the risks of having implicit trust and technology we don't understand most particularly network infrastructure. used to

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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 saladin networks on my boat communications these aircraft and the communications are outside of the denying of what's understood to be. civilian knowledge. the need to understand what's going on and. 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 him and

in somalia there was useful surveillance aren't there to be persistently in the air and it's collecting everything to all the waves just them signals photography in for a riot we know but a little hole over there bowed to actual permissions for brains drawings in country in germany and other places because there's no way of gathering that information most of this operation is our secret. so the subject here is what would be referred to as the pile-o. do all 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

are kilometers above the earth that's when you would really be above a drop and the satellites that they're getting to are one of the hopes is that maybe it will catch a little bit of that kind of thing and we 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 i'm telling us for receiving different kinds of reducing up to 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 it up there and and then let it do its work in the movie over 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. 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. i think it. right receptive then restored to it. i mean used 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. it's fun for the little loved. ones there's not enough troops already so

we're we're really on the ice. we just horribly behind in getting the big jumps and. there's a notch. in 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 right. it's . nothing. that's not good. raking up until you have treated last for just bloody my. does it say new zealand it's a good disease to have. i think it's one. there isn't one large contingency and that's the airspace so far he's you would have just launched a balloon with a big shiny ball underneath full of computational equipment 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. hoffer something like that. often almost something like. the 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. extending the so they lots of corrupt us.

and that we have basically have another woman. really momentum going the other way . it's very important to look at and draw stuff they use for surveillance to collect data. it's creating an archive not just permanent. 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 of insistent and is operating the grace fear of low. i would say human rights. but drawn in so it's just a flying object what matters is what kind of to what's being attached and who is using the information.

in psychiatry's an extra antenna to pretend to be one of the official ones and makes a device communicate with them so it can be listened to. it's coming in now. and psychiatrists are being muscled news by law enforcement in many countries and we know that and i'm sick of as i use the drums. 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 middle. 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. some hardware what else i mean when i have. the major problem yesterday with the battery. and now we have well actually we got another charger and we got this and your battery as well. this is hundred and seven 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. but 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 that for a few hours. hopefully we will see together. it's twenty two. to go.

here go. in with the other pressure this. never getting tails. it's exciting to explore what is out there when we get the data back we. would have to try to figure out what it extremist and what a comfort. we have no illusions of flipping i would rate the contents of communication between mysterious how to choose the it calls and the satellites that i talk to. and 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. birth of twenty five point four kilometers and that would have one hundred one hundred fifty

eight minutes to get there. hundred fifty eight minutes to burst. we're just looking at calculating how high it will get into that how much he lives are quiet 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 i mean to be painting too and then some polish some polish and least the basic greetings and. the fama family's farm and polish things is going to be a day where this is we can't really wait too long because we have pushing for a limited period we were ready we were losing that position as we as it is beach at . my condition 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 just hard. so

you're good tootsie would be to launch now and then and then jump in the cargo and try to find it a bit of a driver would coat. you know. the sale of the staircase so. we can get bigger. and we can use these anchors too by the way. and. you.

seem to get the good. it is very some of the certain kinds of squids the bodies of squids yes. there was easily as i reckon it's full of books on. the male worried about the body of the little. long strips on the neck of the blue . you can have told a string the title is no joke it's like it's a it's a so don't don't well if it really really really really really really grab any couple to hands on the on the problem. it would be so obviously quite cathartic having support and sort of finish to what is otherwise been quite a bit of work but little concerned about the way the blue lost for instance for the meterological community is three out of five last night.

everything this man a company but in this we're not. really doing this. i worry about going to really lifts this point 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 too. unbelievable they're doing this it's pretty. incredible to done this. you know i think. where will this thing go will we ever say to go.

to i was kind to not. house 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 bellerose. several thousand kilometers away which is incredible blue when up to just over ten kilometers. and then it probably encountered high altitude winds and was pushed east at a massive and a massive speed. we

believe that the deep sleep was the first civilian earth to stratosphere scan is routinely done by military but we believe with the first we got plenty of interesting forms if you like shapes that indicate traffic and activity if i just dropped the scroll bar down we actually see the former 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 the dick across like this point to point we see where there was there was image it phenomena the saying that peaks and drops and and rise of falls much like

a mountain ranges suppose. the low frequencies are predictably very energetic you've obviously got a lot of moraine more to call astronomical in the sense of right or astronomy you've got a hell of a lot of stuff is nine 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 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 in the high there were these very interesting sort of last minute bursts. and i passenger planes are known 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 end in what is that one of that 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 that. we we caught something obviously there. lots of people can do this it's not illegal to study the air above us insist that the mains and not available .

will come up with a you know a nice sort of a spear how to do that launch get the data and upload it to this wiki and then we can start comparing. monitored track quantified i'm valued missing data being a new car for weapons your data your identity is a commodity and we have to understand where i'm from the come from our sleep and it's time to reclaim our cyber so we have to put in them a something that can all be sold we are creators we are optimists we are rebel geeks give us back our data at this time on

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