Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world of lobster thermidor at 600 m.p.h., electronic brain radar, moving sidewalks and hotels for parakeets; see BUSINESS, Airport Cities: Gateways...
Since 1946, when U.S. scientists first bounced radar signals off the surface of the moon, the poor old man in the moon has been the target of constant electronic bombardment from earth. Last week the clear, familiar strains of America the Beautiful, broadcast from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Goldstone. Calif., were picked up three seconds later in Holmdel, N.J. after a 500,000-mile round trip to the moon. The dramatic experiment was staged by Bell Telephone Laboratories to demonstrate new equipment with which Bell hopes to bounce signals off a string of ''passive" gyroscopic satellites. Launched...
...hungry jets have made obsolete the ubiquitous airport fuel truck; Idlewild, Seattle, London, O'Hare and Brasilia are all installing underground fueling systems. Hong Kong Airport has solved its space problem by building a runway 8,350 feet into Hong Kong bay. Miami has a new $350,000 radar approach system. Near San Francisco, the Federal Aviation Agency is building an ultramodern, $5,000,000 radar air-traffic control center, whose Remington Rand electronic brain will track all aircraft in a three-state zone. Hardest-to-lick problem thus far is jet noise, but airport officials hope that...
...Valhalla from heavy, cardboard-shield and plaster-throne cliches. But by now, this once revolutionary style has produced some bothersome clichés of its own. The basic stage set of last week's Ring was an eight-ton, segmented concave disk looking somewhat like a huge radar antenna. In the second and fourth Rheingold scenes it was used intact, tilted toward the audience to suggest the rugged slopes of Wotan's mountain home; in other scenes the disk's movable segments represented a cave...
...facts well-larded with interpolation. Only a few areas (Europe, parts of the U.S., Japan) have tight networks of weather observation posts, and even these can only monitor a relatively small patch of weather. A ground observer can see cloud effects about five miles away. If he has radar, he can report heavy rain at a somewhat greater distance; even aircraft at 45,000 ft. can see only 150 miles. Between the observers are wide-open spaces big enough to hold whole strings of tornadoes. Some 80% of the earth's surface has no reporting stations...