That's OK, the Chinese will establish a moon colony using our money and
copies of our technology. Of course, it then becomes possible to deliver
really large moon rocks to selected positions on the earth... who needs
nuclear warheads or missiles? Excuse me, I have to go out and buy another
substandard toilet seat...
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Forster" <j...@quik.com>
To: <d.sei...@comcast.net>
Cc: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
<time-nuts@febo.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver
Kind of sad, IMO, the way the US has squandered our space competance.
FWIW,
-John
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The city of Sunnyvale was thinking of replacing it (the Blue Cube, etc)
with car dealerships, but decided against it because only 3 dealers would
fit. I was happy; who needs more car dealers?
They now want to do something that won't increase traffic too much. They
also just opened a bike trail in the wetlands behind Moffet (in reality,
it took them a few years to remove 2 locks). There are still signs back
there banning cameras (or they were there a year ago).
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Forster" <j...@quik.com>
To: bro...@pacific.net, "Discussion of precise time and frequency
measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 9, 2010 9:27:20 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver
About the only doors in the place that did not have electronic combo
locks
were the bathrooms.
Sad to see it's being shut down. IMO, it was one of the kewl places to be
in the heddy early days of space.
OTOH, it probably makes some sense to muve the thing into the bowels of a
mountain somewhere.
FWIW,
-John
==============
Hi Dave:
Yes, it was right on the central expressway and was part of the GTE
military electronics complex.
Hi John:
My recollection of the antennas at the Blue Cube is that they are out in
the open. See photo at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cube
Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
d.sei...@comcast.net wrote:
We had similar dome in Sunnyvale (Ca) until the late 80's, but I can't
remember who owned it, maybe GE?; it's all housing now.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Dent"<golgarfrinc...@yahoo.com>
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Friday, October 8, 2010 5:06:34 AM
Subject: [time-nuts] 60 KHz Receiver
Lester Veenstra-ââ,¬Å"No, Andover Maine.ââ,¬ï¿½
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The white Dacron fabric dome of the station in Andover,
Maine, really stood out and could be seen by hikers on the
tops of mountains miles away. Somewhere I have photos I
took looking down at that white speck in the distance. On
one of my hiking trips I stopped to check out the facility. The
Dacron fabric dome that was held up only by air pressure
(like a carnival funhouse) was still standing but was scheduled
to be taken down in the near future. Below is a link to a video
about Telstar that appeared on the History Channel and another
link to still photos of the horn and the inside of the dome. The
date given for removal in the second link was 1985 but I was
thinking the dome was removed a few years later than that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyfGuSmSHWM
http://users658.mainememory.net/slideshow/386/display%3Fformat=list&prev_object_id=1050&prev_object=page&slide_num=1.html
-Arthur
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