black and white, hand drawn illustration of a belt of needles orbiting the earth around the north and south poles. dated 6 december 1963

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   Lori Emerson (loriemerson@post.lurk.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 00:31:31 JST Lori Emerson

   with the usual relief and happiness to be back working on #othernetworks today, I wrote an entry on Project West Ford which honestly is one of the most bizarre networks I've come across...which is saying a lot. Developed by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a strategy to maintain radio comms in the event of a nuclear attack from Russia, Project West Ford was a belt of 480 million copper dipole needles that created an artificial ionosphere around the earth. It lasted between 1963 and 1966 and space debris from the project is probably still orbiting earth...