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>

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

I thought a22042 was going to cover how these two points are wrong, but I guess not.

a) the density of the atmosphere varies with distance from the earth (so it slows gradually as the air density builds up – thus it doesn’t immediately generate a ton of heat)

Actually, since the density high up is much lower, it would initially fall much faster since it will quite rapidly reach terminal velocity. At terminal velocity, change in gravitational potential energy exactly matches the viscous drag dissipation, and thus falling faster though the initially less dense air means it would “immediately generate a ton of heat” if it ever would.

b) Copper is one of the BEST heat conductors available and thus would tend to shed its heat quickly to the surrounding (quite cold) enviroment. Factor in its surface area to volume ratio – and I believe what I read – that the wouldnt burn up.”

Copper is a good conductor, so all the copper would be at the same temperature. Air is a terible conductor, so it won’t conduct heat away from the copper very quickly. If the copper can’t reject heat into its environment, it will get hotter. It’s own conductivity has nothing to do with its surface temperature.

In the end, these would never burn up because they are really freakin’ small. Think about how slowly a hair falls to the ground, or if you have a dog or cat, the cloud of fur that hangs around them after you pet them. These bad boys will never get up enough speed to generate any significant heat.

I dont believe there were any satellites in the sky in 1963.

Kid of 1963

From my research, some of the copper needles (dipoles) where sent from Quebec, army base of Valcartier, using two decker rockets called Black Brent. So Canada was part of the West Ford Project. In the same years, a young engineer from Moncton (Chapman) was working on the project of geostationary satellites, Alouette I and Alouette II, Anik I and Anik B. I am not sure, but I recall the first launching of dipoles from Quebec as far back as 1962.

Canada has always been number one in world telecom, especially for circumpolar global telecommunication.

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).