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Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit
coondoggie writes "Imagine 500 million short copper wires — no longer than the tip of your index finger — floating in space creating what amounts to an antenna belt that could be used to send messages and conduct other space communications research. That would describe the 1960s era Project Space Needles or Project West Ford as it was sometimes called that NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last undertook in 1963 which saw the blasting of millions of those copper hairs into space. NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office this month did a 'Where are they now' look at those copper wires and said that after 50 years, some of them indeed still make up a small amount of orbital debris."
Today must be Alzheimer's Day, the previous story was a dupe, too.
Copper may play key role in Alzheimer's disease
August 19, 2013|By Melissa Healy
Copper, including trace amounts in water that passes through copper pipes like these, appears to cause a cascade of events that feeds the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.
New research finds that copper in amounts readily found in our drinking water, the foods we eat and the vitamin supplements we take likely plays a key role in initiating and fueling the abnormal protein build-up and brain inflammation that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.
link:http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/19/science/la-sci-copper-alzheimers-disease-20130819
The RAF screwed up Nazi radar with "Window", which is the precursor of the NASA Project West Ford:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_(codename)
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
Today must be AIzheimer's Day, the previous story was a dupe, too.
Past tense. They put the copper in space 50 years ago.There's nothing hypocritical about it. The situation has changed. Attitudes have cahnged