Word: blips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth and raises general hell with the tides. Enormous glaciers crash into the sea, earthquakes rumble, and, in a particularly satisfying scene, New York City is destroyed and inundated by the Atlantic ocean. The actual collision between earth and the second planet is shown as a mild pink blip on the TV screen of an escaping rocket ship...
Near week's end Captain Richard M. Heyman, flying a B-26 Invader near Seoul, dropped down to investigate a suspicious blip picked up by radar. At 500 ft., he sighted an enemy plane that looked in the moonlight as though it might be Bed Check Charlie's crate. Captain Heyman fired a single burst from his .50-cahber guns, and the plane flew apart in midair. Air Force officers were pretty sure they had finished off Bed Check, but refused to say so definitely, suggested that other Bed Checks might turn up. If that happened...
...back & forth motion. In doing this mannered dance, it probes the air ahead with far-reaching radar pulses. If the air is empty, a single line of light glows on the radar-man's scope. When a pulse bounces back from the enemy, a jog or "blip" appears in the line...
...observer makes his adjustments; the radar "locks" to the enemy and steers the plane toward him. The "blip" grows brighter and clearer. By this time the pilot is watching his own radar, which shows a bright green targetlike circle with a smaller circle inside...