The More, the.
Oct. 4th, 2006 05:47 amThe ruins of an ancient White Alice relay station, quietly mouldering away.
The White Alice system. These things were still in use during my lifetime. The brute-force ingenuity and determination of the Cold War can still amaze me. They needed a long-distance communications relay, and a simple lack of satellites wasn't going to deter them.
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The Foley debacle continues to grow wider and deeper, much like some political equivalent of the Indonesian Mud Disaster.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/10/04/ap3065031.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/new_foley_insta.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/fbi_contacting_.html
The White Alice system. These things were still in use during my lifetime. The brute-force ingenuity and determination of the Cold War can still amaze me. They needed a long-distance communications relay, and a simple lack of satellites wasn't going to deter them.
*****
The Foley debacle continues to grow wider and deeper, much like some political equivalent of the Indonesian Mud Disaster.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/10/04/ap3065031.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/new_foley_insta.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/fbi_contacting_.html