Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force sponsors of West Ford had answers ready. The wires, they explained, are made so that they reflect only a narrow band of microwaves about 1.4 in. long ( 8,000 megacycles"). Other waves will not be reflected efficiently, and even if the wire belt causes some unexpected kind of trouble for radio astronomers, it will not last forever. The almost invisible wires are strongly affected by the pressure of sunlight. In five years or less, they will be pushed out of their orbit and will burn like junior meteors in the atmosphere...
Lincoln Lab scientists watched the cloud by radar and saw it grow longer and longer as the thin wires separated. In about two months the wires should be evenly distributed around the earth, occupying a belt five miles wide and 25 miles thick...
Fossil Science. The welcome signals reflected from the wire belt were almost drowned out by new protests from radio astronomers. "The experiment is not useful." said Dr. David Heeschen, director of the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Observatory. "It may have a long-range effect on radio astronomy." Said Dr. Harold Weaver, director of the University of California's Hat Creek Observatory: "We object. We may be a fossil science barely after we've been born...
...copper wires are now circling the globe in a polar orbit at an altitude of 2300 miles. These "needles" are part of Project West Ford which began in 1958 when it was first suggested by Mr. Walter E. Morrow of M.I.T.'s Lincoln Labs. Morrow planned to place a belt of copper wires above the earth in order to provide a jam-proof, fail-proof, destruction-proof communication system...
...Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt their coats, all at the iron whim of a woman whose face is as rarely photographed and widely unknown as the moon's other side...