Word: radars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approach. Then they're captured -- in a flash. A combination cameraradar-computer unit snaps the car's license number and the driver's frequently startled face, as well as the date, time, speed and location. Since May, some 1,200 drivers have been nailed by the high-tech Doppler radar system.The film is developed, the license plate number matched to the car owner, and then the offenders are notified by mail. Only clearly photographed drivers are fined...
Like the Kennedy assassination, the KAL incident has created a cottage industry of conspiracy theorists. R.W. Johnson, a politics don at Oxford University, has written Shootdown, which offers the hypothesis that the flight was a surveillance mission designed by the CIA to test Soviet radar capabilities. But Johnson provides no direct evidence for this theory other than that it "fits -- or can be made to fit -- just about all the known facts about the 007 tragedy." David Pearson, a doctoral candidate at Yale, has argued in the Nation magazine that top U.S. officials must have known at the time that...
...been difficult to find a newborn star because outer regions of the collapsing cloud hide the new star within. Ordinary light cannot penetrate the haze. The long-wavelength infrared and radio waves produced by a warming embryonic star can pierce it, however, just as a radar signal can cut through the densest...
...center of the cloud. It was also clear that there was systematic motion inside. Just as a train whistle is higher in pitch as it approaches than when it recedes, radio waves also vary in frequency according to direction of motion. Using the radio telescope like a police-radar detector, the astronomers measured the movement within the cloud. "We didn't detect any motion in the outer, cooler regions," reports Wilking. "It was as we probed deeper and deeper that we began to see evidence of gas falling inward...
...crowded," insists William B. Cotton, manager of United's air-traffic system. "It's the air-traffic-control system that's crowded." The strain was compounded last week when 34 of the 238 air-traffic controllers at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Center at Palmdale were suspended from radar duty pending a probe of alleged off-duty drug...