Word: eshleman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates. At Michigan, for example, classified electronics research has produced at least 30 doctorates. There is also considerable nonmilitary fallout from secret work. A 26-acre antenna built at Stanford to help the U.S. learn how to detect enemy missile launches was used by Stanford Electrical Engineer Von R. Eshleman to bounce the first radar signals off the sun.* Classified research at Michigan helped Emmett N. Leith develop the new science of holography (see SCIENCE), which uses laser light to produce three-dimensional images with potential uses in art, television and industry. Says Leith: "The idea that you can close...
...sunset and a sunrise, which occur 59 earth days apart. When it was high in the sky, the sun would appear as a familiar disk-if it could be seen through the murky Venusian clouds. But as it set, according to Stanford University Engineer and Physicist Von R. Eshleman, the disk would gradually diffuse itself around the entire horizon as a glowing band for the remainder of the night; sunlight is so bent, or refracted, by the dense atmosphere that it circles around to the dark side of the planet. At dawn, nearly two earth months later, the band would...
...other bizarre effects. Looking toward the horizon with a powerful enough telescope, the visitor might be able to see the back of his own head. And wherever he was, he would appear to be standing in the center of a depression, or bowl, looking up toward the horizon. Concluded Eshleman: "We can now say that Venus is not only hell, but a hellhole...