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The Forgotten Cold War Plan That Put a Ring of Copper Around the Earth - Wired Science »

In 1963, the United States launched half a billion whisker-thin copper wires into orbit in an attempt to install a ring around the Earth. It was called Project West Ford, and it's a perfect, if odd, example of the Cold ... Source Main page (current trends)
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