water would be essentially like concrete. it would hit it with tremendous force and be absolutely misshapen, torn apart, broken up by this impact. what does that mean to recovery? what it means is the first thing they have to do, get divers down, 47 feet down, that s good. a good, workable depth. there they have to look at this figure out how many pieces it s in, where they are, assess it. figure out if some of it is buried in the muck below. and then come up with a list of priorities. what do they want to bring up first? how do they want to bring it up to protect all of this as much as they can? and how long it s going to take. these operations typically are longer than most people expect, even though they believe this one could be pretty fast. think of it this way, this is like an underwater crime scene now. they have to protect their evidence as best they can if they want to learn all they can about this balloon. some of the battle tanks
chamber of congress, there is constantly going to be something, always going to be something between now and election day 2024 that is going to cause congressional republicans to erupt in outrage. it just kind of there s a demand. something has to fill that spot on any given day, and right now this is the thing that will fill it for the next few days. but i suspect it will not dominate political conversation any longer than the balloon itself lasted over the u.s. i do think it is going to kind of advance that debate, and it isn t a debate at this point. it s really more of a movement in both parties toward a harder line towards china, but i think this is more about providing this week s kpaexample for that existing conservative audience for why joe biden is a failure as president. china is sticking with the civilian craft story. that might be true. doesn t look like it according