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Originally Posted by summerops77
...putting certain objects into space (such as the needles placed in orbit by the United States several years ago against protests from many scientists).
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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