Word: reflector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balloons in vacuum. A similar attempt last winter failed when the balloon burst because of too much gas pressure (TIME, Jan. 26). Last week's success means that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will soon try to put Echo II, its bigger and better radio wave reflector (passive communication satellite), in a high, shining orbit for the world...
Plugged Brain. Sure enough, within 20 pages the supersensitive reflector picks up a complex series of dots and dashes speeding earthward from the Andromeda constellation, a thousand million million miles away. Excitedly, Fleming discovers that the elaborate code is written in binary arithmetic and contains the design for an electronic brain far more sophisticated than any known to earthlings. Once built and plugged in. the space computer goes pocketa-pocketa-blink-thump and hands out a formula for creating human life. The formula, concocted by a human chemist, produces a disappointing first model: a large, jellied blob with...
Massachusetts has passed a now safety rule for bicycle riders requiring the following special bike equipment; a white light on the front (visible for 300 ft.) and a red reflector on the book (visible for 500 ft.) for bikes need after dark; a marking of white or reflectorized paint or tape (area about five square inches) on lower portion of rear fender and upper portion on both sides of the front fork; a suitable bell or horn-sirens or here or whistles are not permitted; and on adequate brake...
...Force project was to encircle the globe with a band made up of 350 million tiny copper wires, which could be used as a reflector to relay radio messages. Nothing has since been seen of the wires. *Named for Loveman Noa, a 23-year-old midshipman, who was killed in 1901 near Leyte in the Philippines while fighting insurgents...
...operation began when a Thor rocket took off from Cape Canaveral just before dawn carrying a canister containing a tightly folded deflated balloon of plastic film and aluminum foil. This was Echo A12, an experimental successor to Echo I, the 100-ft. radio-reflector that was launched on Aug. 12, 1960, and is still orbiting the earth. Echo A12 was not expected to orbit; its job was merely to expand in space and test a new kind of aluminized film that would stay rigid after the gas that blew up the balloon had escaped through meteor punctures...