Welcome to Politics by Faith. I'm Mike Slater. Thanks for being here. If you're new to the show,

we take a story of the day. We tell you what's happening. Then we tell you what's really going on.

What's at the root of the story? Then we lament the brokenness in it then the turn is where we

provide some historical perspective and biblical truth so that we can have some peace because the story

the day more often than not is causing anxiety and this is not a good way to live so we try to get rid

of that anxiety because there's nothing new under the sun. We can do that.

And you get to the biblical truth of it all. And that anxiety, you can feel it wash away by the end of

the episode. Then we talk about what's in your control and then wrap up with the final thought.

That's the outline. And we've been doing it over 100 episodes now and I'm grateful you're here.

So let's talk about this Chinese spy balloon that floated

across the United States. What in the world? They blew it up. We blew it up eventually. But only

after it traversed the entirety of our country at 60,000 feet. All right. So what's going on here? As far as we're told,

the Chinese launched a surveillance balloon. China's far away, by the way. Anchorage to China is

about 4,000 miles. The length of the United States is 3,000 miles. So that's how far away.

So the Chinese launched this balloon. You've maybe heard that it was the size of three city buses. Sort of. That

was the size, we think, of the technology bay, as they call it, the part under the balloon.

The balloon is even bigger. Now, NASA has some of these things I don't know if this is the

exact same balloon but the NASA they call them scientific balloons this is from the NASA website

the most common size so not even the biggest the most common size of NASA's balloons is 40 million

cubic feet now I have no idea 40 million cubic oh. Now, I have no idea. 40 million cubic. Oh, wow, 40

what is that? That is a volume equivalent to more than 195 Goodyear blimps. Have you ever seen

the Goodyear blimp? Imagine a hundred and ninety-five of them?

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