why i was asking what the blimp looked like. i wondered about the tethers. he said right around the tree line and that if there are outages being reported by barbara in terms of electricity, and the fact that it s decreasing in altitude, this thing eventually has to hit the ground. it does. and actually it s probably fortunate that it is down and going to hit the ground because those tethers aren t like ropes. they re heavy cables, designed to keep this aloft because this is part of the system that was designed to give the united states information about incoming air traffic, incoming missiles, et cetera. and it was down, remember the guy who tried to land on the capitol grounds last spring. sure do. it was down that day, a highly controversial program. hasn t worked well. but it s very sensitive and they ve got to recover the equipment. so if it did can get on the ground without harming anyone, it s very heavy because it s radar equipment. it s not like a balloon. it s got a lot