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...southern Vermont try Haystack Mountain in Wilmington, a new area this year which offers a double chair and three T-bars. Visionary long-range plans call for a gondola and two more chairs, but the present equipment opens up 75 acres of skiable terrain at all levels of difficulty. Slightly further north, Stratton Mountain begins its third season with a new 5100-foot Heron double chair and 30 acres of new trials. Stratton is one of the most substantial of the new developments and the lifts, trails and lodge have all been carefully--and expensively--built. The area's four...
With the new Haystack antenna that can project a narrow beam of 8,000-megacycle, 1.5-inch microwaves that behave just like light. Dr. Shapiro plans to follow the planet Venus around its orbit, accurately measuring the time that the microwaves take to reach their target and bounce back. While Venus is well away from the sun, that time can be translated into the planet's calculated distance on its well-known orbit. But as Venus begins to swing behind the sun, the microwaves will pass through the strongest part of the sun's gravitational field. If Einstein...
...southern Vermont try Haystack Mountain in Wilmington, a new area this year which offers a double chair and three T-bars. Visionary long-range plans call for a gondola and two more chairs, but the present equipment opens up 75 acres of skiable terrain at all levels of difficulty. Slightly further north, Stratton Mountain begins its third season with a new 5100 foot Heron double chair and 30 acres of new trials. Stratton is one of the most substantial of the new developments and the lifts, trails and lodge have all been carefully--and expensively--built. The area's four...
...give the 171-ton Haystack its phenomenal accuracy required miracles of designed precision. The huge aluminum antenna floats, for instance, on a film of oil not much thicker than a human hair, moves on a 30-ton bearing with the ease of a ship's gyro. The oil bearing eliminates what engineers call "stiction," for static friction, enables the antenna to rotate through more than three degrees of arc in less than one second, make a complete 180-degree about-face in less than one minute. With such agility, Haystack can track anything that can be tossed into space...
Magnetic Memory. Haystack's radio antenna will also be the most versatile anywhere in the free world. By changing transmitters and receivers it can be used as a superradar, radio telescope, or a radio transmitter to talk to and listen to communications satellites or spacecraft probing the planets. Haystack is so sensitive, and its tasks so enormous, that its operation could never be entrusted to mere men. The antenna beam will be pointed by a Univac 490, which will be able to call on a magnetic memory with a complete astronomical almanac for the sun, moon and eight planets...