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Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford

 
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PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2006 5:42 pm    Post subject: Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford Reply with quote
In May 1963, the US Air Force launched 480 million tiny copper needles that briefly created a
ring encircling the entire globe. They called it Project West Ford. At the height of the Cold War
in the late 1950s, all international communications were either sent through undersea cables or
bounced off of the natural ionosph...read more
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