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When the Army Signal Corps bounced the first radio signal off the moon in 1946, there were high hopes that the moon would soon serve as a reflector to angle microwave radio messages around the curve of the earth. Nothing much happened for 14 years; the practical difficulties proved considerable. But last week the Navy proudly announced the establishment of man's first practical communications system by way of the moon, linking Washington and Hawaii. To celebrate the occasion, Navy officials displayed a radio photograph sent from Hawaii via the moon, of the carrier Hancock with its crew lined...
...Koerner device: psychological perspective. The Negro workman looms twice the size of the Plymouth in the foreground, simply because he is more important. In fact, Koern says, he represents a god of darkness and regeneration, just as the fat man sunning his face with the aid of a metal reflector is a disguised god of light and life. The Plymouth will eventually join the junk pile, and, remelted, may yet become a bridge. The setting is the North Side approach to Pittsburg's Manchester Bridge, leading to the Golden Triangle...
...M.I.T., Dr. Otto Struve, director of the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., announced a project that aims to bring earthlings out of their isolation. Starting New Year's Day or soon thereafter. Green Bank will point the observatory's 85-ft. parabolic reflector antenna at the most likely stars, listen for radio signals from planets around them...
Russian telescopes and other astronomical instruments are far behind U.S. instruments. The Russians' biggest optical telescope is a 50-in. reflector that they took from the Germans after World War II. They are building a 104-in. reflector and designing a 200-incher. Their radio telescopes are good, but no better than those of France or Holland...
Glaring Error. In Chitose, Japan, after a thief had removed three of four radar reflectors from the landing strip of a nearby U.S. Air Base and a ground radar man had detected the fourth and last reflector drifting off on his scope, police, summoned by the radarman, found the reflector loaded on the bicycle of Shigeru Takagi, 32, who confessed that he had taken the others, but grumbled that a local pawnshop had paid him only $2.78 apiece...