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Old 25-May-2008, 12:30 AM
JonClarke JonClarke is offline
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Originally Posted by summerops77 View Post
...putting certain objects into space (such as the needles placed in orbit by the United States several years ago against protests from many scientists).
This would be a reference to project West Ford otherwise known as the needles experiment, a project of considerable notority at the time (1961-1963)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford and a good example of inadvisable satellite technology.

Unadvisiable it may have been, but it was nothing to do with weather modication but was a communications experiment.

Jon
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