Comments on: Earth’s Artificial Ring: Project West Ford https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Tue, 09 May 2023 14:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-73607 Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:53:59 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-73607 This time, it is here as the result of the DI random article generator posted on Thanksgiving. I like randomness. It’s the stuff of life.

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By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-72826 Mon, 27 May 2019 02:31:40 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-72826 This came back so very soon.

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By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-72816 Mon, 20 May 2019 22:47:22 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-72816 Never mind the physicists.

Engineers are the true geniuses.

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By: aSmego https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-26841 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:29:08 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-26841 kid of 1963 said: I would like to know if the West Ford Project has anything to do, technically, with the launching of chemtrails by stratotankers since 1998 by the US army (trails of chemical gases made of berilium and aluminum)

those are actually test to produce/control weather.. as in rain storms over parched land… there are also test going on to see if certain gases in bulk in the atmosphere have any control over the green house effect and our ozone layer. cant say how i know or can verify this information… but none the less, very neat.

those small needles of copper, pure copper, would do something very interesting with any moisture in the lower atmosphere… but thats a whole nother story. those needles are also actively impacting ISS. wonder how thats going>

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By: prower https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-25688 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:11:05 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-25688 I recall hearing about Project West Ford in 1962 or 1963. I was working at Arthur D. Little, Inc. (Bldg. 15 – metallurgical group headed by Dick Davis) and attended a talk given by engineers from MIT-Lincoln Lab(?) about this project. My reaction was outrage. I asked what might happen to a ship, or worse still a man in a space-suit, if a clump of this trash was on an intersecting orbit. This question was met with near derision. The concept of what was to become EVA hadn’t been figured in. So much for the imagination, and responsibility, of some of our leading engineering/military thinkers. Only now is serious consideration being given to cleaning up all manner of debris in long lived orbits. Project West Ford was a testament to the bovine stupidity of certain sections of the science/military alliance that prevailed in those benighted years. Is that sort of thinking still prevalent? A rhetorical question.

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By: shideg https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-25475 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:58:51 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-25475 Devices have ANTENNAS. Bugs have antennae.

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By: Mirage_GSM https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-24124 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:58:47 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-24124 Comprendo su lengua también.
What I don’t understand is your reason for posting this…

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By: carola https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-24123 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:31:58 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-24123 son todos ultra graciosos…. por suerte en nuestros paises no nos hace falta saber como se llaman las agencias de inteligencia ni cuantas armas tiene nuestro gobierno porque no andamos con tremenda paranoia de que el resto de los paises del mundo un buen dia nos ataquen y nos hagan la guerra… no tenemos miedo a que se nos estrellen aviones en nuestros edificios ni tenemos miedo de que nos invadan… tampoco es nuestra responsabilidad la muerte de miles de personas al otro lado del mundo solo por buscar petroleo… asi que cool . felices y aventurados los que no saben de sus agencias de inteligencia.
And we also know your language, so we can understand what you say! kisses!

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By: cinndave https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-22979 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:50:27 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-22979 Hey, I live in Westford, Massachusetts. I wonder if this was named after my boring-ass suburban town. It’s about an hour away from Millstone Hill, Massachusetts.

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By: chronoso https://www.damninteresting.com/earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford/#comment-22688 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:39:26 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=516#comment-22688 [quote]swolfaz said: “I dont believe there were any satellites in the sky in 1963.”[/quote]

i have registered just so i can post this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar_1

aaand this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1

oh, and this too, in case everyone forgot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_program

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