Why Earth Once Had An Artificial Ring Made From 500 Million Needles: Project West Ford
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Project West Ford was a crazy experiment performed by the U.S Military and NASA during the height of the Cold War. During this experiment, the U.S. launched nearly 500 Million Needles into Space in hopes of making a giant antenna reflector for long range communications. Check out this video to learn the history of this crazy Cold War project.
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Animations courtesy of Vincent de Langen
US Army:
Six of your satellites blew up.
NASA:
How ?
US Army:
We detonated a nuke in space.
NASA:
Why ?
US Army:
We wanted to see what would happen.
Navy: you guys got nukes?
NASA:
Well, what happened?
US Army:
Like I told you, six of your sattelites blew up.
The navy also lost one of its early positioning satellites.
*"Falling space debris can't hurt you. Nobody has died from it."*
Falling space debris:
Fortunately I don't believe it has hurt anyone yet.
@@reallifelore2174 _Yet_
It would burn up while entering the atmosphere, so you’re good
It is unlikely but it is possible.
Falling space debris: _Harmlessly burns up in atmosphere_
0:57 and essentially create the worlds largest...
Me: barbed wire like thingy to stop the russians from getting to space?
RLL: radio antenna.
i was looking for this exact comment. i thought the same thing
@@bhoomisavla4571 same
I really don’t like the fact that needles are still circling the earth...
they disintegrate on the way back into the atmosphere
Why do you really not like that?
DougTheDog6 why?
@@Sausketo they have so little mass that they probably won't.
If something hits you at 17,500mph, it doesn't really matter what shape it is, you're going to be splattered
Could you talk about the São Paulo suspended bridge?
Suspended or suspensing? xd
@@eeevoo "suspension bridge" lol
I will look into it!
(1:40) Around the curvature..
Flat earther: *HMM*
Space needles can't killl someone
Random space Needle :ima gonna end his life
Also space Needle: can't make it I'm burning in atmosphere
At least it tried
Why is this on the second channel? This is top level interesting right here
🤔
@@reallifelore2174 ❤️❤️😘😘❤️❤️
Bruh
Love this channel ❤️
Meanwhile in Space:
Guy 1: I think i just broke my underwear again.
Guy 2 : I gotchu fam, **goes outside and grabs a needle**
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
*grabs EVA suit*
Artificial ring:
HALO THEME INTENSIFIES
Just imagine if every raindrop that exists on Earth became a needle.
i would shower on that
Would that include the entire ocean? Imagine an ocean of metal.
Michael NSC Would the ocean be solid metal or liquid metal?
Michael NSC Sure, we can include the ocean, too.
@@liam-man7265 yikes, imagine the ocean life.
For what it's worth, I thought the video was well done and informative. Ignore the trolls.
😃
What trolls? I couldn't find any in this comments section
Wouldn't those needles easily burn when they enter earth's atmosphere? I mean chunks of space rocks burn out, so why wouldn't small copper wires?
M Alenezi they would
Not over the poles, as those would have no vertical velocity so when they fall down there is negligible friction.
pafnucek what are you talking about?
pafnucek that’s not how reentering the atmosphere works. They renter on an angle, no matter where they renter, as they will fall more as air friction increases. This increase also increases the temperature, which is why most space debris burns up. In fact, even if something just dropped out of the sky and fell straight down somehow, it would still hit the air friction and likely burn up.
Launching millions of tiny antennas into space to avoid ionospheric disturbances... Wouldn't it be easier to just agree not to nuke our own planet?
No. Nuking is easier.
You’d think so
but apparently not
Humans in a nutshell.
Yes let's beg our enemies not to nuke us
Prisoner's Dilemma.
You know, I can't help but wonder what crazy things the Soviets did.
Yes I did.
Scott Manley of Kerbal Space Program fame talked about it.
Bethesda are really missing out on these real-life inspirations for Fallout lore
We really can't escape from pollution wherever we go
Now that's what I call a *space needle*
HA. GET IT.
That's not even a joke. Or funny
@@kaizermierkrazy6886 wee woo wee woo. He doesnt get the joke so it's not funny everyone. Nobody can laugh at this or like it cause this guy doesnt think its funny
@@darkhero6303 well there's a reason you've only got 1 like. Because its not funny. And yes I get it but it's still shit
@@kaizermierkrazy6886 r/whoosh
how can this be better than the main channel.. xd really good!
😃
Wouldnt the needles burn when reentering the atmosphere? So there is no way you can find them in the poles.
I got an ad for the USAF before this
The biggest issue is that the Soviets would probably have been able to use the needles too.
Soviets didn't invade countries on the other side of the Globe, so they didn't need long range communication as much as US.
pafnucek They still needed long range communication.
Thanks man! It was very interesting. I am happy that I follow your channel. 🤗
5:51 wouldn't the needles have burned up upon re-entry into the atmosphere? How does that work?
just curious
Great video man, keep it up! ✌️
😀
*Why did you remove the video on the most controversial base?*
I live... a single town away from Westford.
I live in Chelmsford, the town to the east of Westford.
Westford used to be a part of Chelmsford, but it was formed out of Chelmsford.
Hence the name, Westford, West-of-Chelmsford.
Huh, that is an interesting note. Thanks!
I live in Westford lol
@@atomcrusher1236 Same
Wouldn't the needles burnt out completely if it's entering the earth atmosphere?
Yes. None of these will survive re entry
Even if they did their terminal velocity is too low to harm us.
@@keriezy "terminal velocity is too low to harm us" tf bruh if theyd survive the heat of re-entry, then gravity would pull the needle towards earth speeding their velocity. 1 needle would tear you apart dumbass.
@@XzX_Noscoper_Swar__Gaming_Walk
They would have too low mass to hurt even if dropping at max speed
@@juhailmarisalminen what about bullets? When fired from a rifle? Yet bullets are smaller than coins.
5:56 - You show that clip a lot.
For anyone wondering, that's the Gaspé Peninsula (Quebec) and New Brunswick, Canada. Except the clip that's shown is mirrored, so the places are flipped in the video.
One space Needle in Seattle wasn't enough, we needed several thousand. Number 1 in space needles baybee! USA! USA! USA!
West Ford is the Best Ford
Sounds like a car dealership slogan
I prefer Chevy to be completely honest
Better than Chelms Ford for sure
"Created 'outrage' around the world"? Wow, Project West Ford invented Twitter.
Needles were 17.8mm x 0.0254mm x 0.0178mm ; at that size I doubt they'd be dangerous as projectiles, but they might be able to drift down slowly and survive re-entry.
The sky is falling needles!
Fairly interesting video. Thank you!
I thought such small things falling towards Earth would get burnt from the friction with Earth's Atmosphere.
My grandpa was leader during the Cold War, he was amazing
The best
Just give it up, we all know you're a 6 year old minecrafter with a fake profile
Great Video!
This was insane! At least from todays pov!
I clicked on the video without reading the title and was very confused when you said 'needles'
Yes, he says it in a matter-of-fact way without any sort of emphasis, even though the idea of putting needles into space is weird. a sort of "WTF?" moment.
You showed an icon of space shuttle deploying needles however it didnt exist at that time
The newer generations have no clue about all this " ancient " tech lol. Anyone who has played with CB or ham radios should know. It's called radio skip, and before the 1970's was the best to gets comms to the other side of the world. It sounds absolutely crazy to us today, but to them back then, it was cutting edge technology. I'm sure in say 50 years they will be looking back at us and there will be something we are doing today they will look at and say we were nuts for doing.
Side note: space junk is a huge issue. All in favor of putting a low power laser in space to start dealing it say ey..... Something like a 25 to 50 watt max, able to burn up small centimeter pieces but also able to " push " larger piece to lower orbit for re-entry.
Troy Blanchard yeah the space laser is a pretty good idea to get rid of debris but I’d assume it might have to be more powerful than that, but I’d have to do the research first.
ok boomer
"Ancient" tech... yeah okay but do you know how to predict the next eclipse by using a fucking sundial?
Nobody:
USA: bro send needles to space
"it is likely that today, most of these needles are beneath the snow of the North and south Pole"
Why should that be?
Large clumps falling from 36km might not burn through
@@andrewthag did he mention that the needles were released at 36km?
@@scavi my bad 3500km**
@@scavi and around 5:18
Mijn Natuurskunde examen opdracht ging hier over
Thats America dear people...
Make a video about Nickolai Tesla's inventions.
Why do I get notifications for a channel I’ve watched one video of but not for a channel I’ve subbed to, turned notifications on, and watch 95% of their videos
All the gas giants: I feel bad for the rocky planets for not having any rings. some of them used to have rings from collisions, but they faded away. :(
This video: Am I a joke to you?
I doubt needles that small would survive reentry. If there were 500 million of them and the total mass of them was just 20kg that works out to each needle having a mass of just 0.04mg. 20kg/500,000,000 needles. For perspective, a paperclip has a mass of about 1 gram, so it would take 25,000 of those needles to equal the mass of a single paper clip. And given copper's incredible thermal conductivity, there's little to no chance of it surviving reentry. But please correct me if I'm missing something and am mistaken about this.
Also, if they're in an orbit that goes over the poles, and they did survive reentry, they wouldn't just land in the poles. It's not like they just clumped together at both poles and stayed put. You said so yourself that the needles dispersed too much to be of any use as a radio reflector. So they would presumably land over the entirety of their orbits.
Other than these two pretty minor errors, I thought this video was quite interesting and enjoyable. I'll definitely be looking into this in more depth as this video left me wanting more. Thanks for taking the time to make this. Cheers.
Stupid people who thought this might work without considering the lives of others.
Great video, with superb animation and that space junk website. Thanks
Arib Anwar well it did work and testing it showed to them that it wasn’t reliable and then they were forced to try different methods which led to the creation of communication satellites which make much of our modern world work. And the needles are far too small to hurt anyone so I fail to see how this would’ve affected the lives of anyone.
That’s interesting and kind of cool.
where did the latest video go?
i have a fear of needles...
Sources?
2:10 Holy FUCK that's my great uncle. I knew he worked at LL at some point but had no idea he worked on this project
Dafuc did new voice?
*reads title of the video
"um, excuse me?" (never thought something like that would ever be a thing)
Good video. 💯
How much Space junk is in orbit of the earth will Blow your mind
If the space needles didn't survive re-entering the atmosphere, how do you explain the one in Seattle?
Copper wire you say?
Crack heads: Building a rocket.
Highly doubt it was paranoia, more like untethered ideas
Needle can only be vertical antenna.
Wouldn't the needles burn up in the atmosphere before they landed?
5:13 _”This time the needles were successfully released roughly _*_thirty five hundred kilometers_*_ above the earth...”_
What’s that supposed to mean?
cool video man, subbed because you didn't ask for it 😉
These things really aren't that big a deal. They're the result of a *dumb* idea, but back in the day when orbital mechanics wasn't really all that well understood.
The bigger issue is all the spent rocket stages living between LEO and GSO. They're relatively large ( GSO is ~25000 km ) and heavy, and have a *lot* of energy.
This is an interesting point. I wonder how many used up stages are in orbit providing no actual benefits.
@@reallifelore2174 Spacex deorbit most of their second stages and those they can't are required to be moved to a graveyard orbit. There are quite a few things in graveyard orbits but it's on an orbital plane that everyone has agreed not to use for satellites.
i find it hard to believe there are needles still in orbit, its not like oops i threw the needles out too hard and now they are in another prolonged orbit, even if they did clump together i dont see how they could still be in orbit. From my understanding of orbital mechanics you cant go from 2 years in orbit to several decades that easily.
And they were making such a huge and cry about space debris when India destroyed its own satalite.
Also seen this video a few times before on other channels...
It does not seem insane at all. As you said yourself, sattelites were not a thing. So there were only those 2 ways to send a message across the ocean. And of those two, one in space is invariably harder to defeat.
Of course the needles would have been useable by everyone - including the russians.
And actually, with the proliferation of anti-sattelite weapons, we might see it being brought back up. They have not become any easier to disrupt. While OTH Radio has fallen out of favor, at least in Radar it seems to be making a comeback: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
What a small world.. westford gang
chelmsford gang but westford’s cooler imo
Wouldn't these needles have burned up instead of landing at the North and South Poles?
let's hear more about starfish prime
I thought the needles was for earth's defense system against aliens, i guess i'm wrong
*Earth already has an Artifical Ring*
of Space Trash
Duchi if that’s true, why am I still here on the surface?
@@carl9022 cause ur not worth enough hahaha
Lourenco Vieira agreed
I would have said a weird sphere
Lego Wagfles ?
Nobody:
usa: *needles*
This meme fucking sucks
Tough crowd I guess
@@reallifelore2174 lmao
HAHA
Space needle
Everyone, literally every species we know about in the entire universe lives on one planet.
NASA: Let's use it for experiments..........
Just came here to tell that Destiny just posted a video about the same topic and I feel this is way better
First comment in 4 months ?
really, cold war paranoia aside... in a world before satellite communication, this really does make sense to try. think about it, a technology that may have eliminated the distance and reliability restrictions of radio communication... how is that crazy? hell we do the same damn thing today, just with things more complicated than small copper filaments, the only reason people say that was crazy is because it didn't work.
Imagine getting killed by a needle from the sky
Imagine being so dumb that you think a needle won't be destroyed in the atmosphere and it'll reach the surface of earth to kill someone
@@evilpimp2475imagine being a total dumbass and not understand what a joke is
Rainning grandma needles
The more stuff in orbit the higher the chance that something could f up and we will never be able to leave the earth because debris will shred our ships.
Lol i live a town over from the place they named the project after
How.. I thought the world was flat?
What if the moon was made out of copper?
Please, real life lore is a serious channel, can you avoid statements in the titles that make you think that these project where actually turned into factual reality? UA-cam is already full of this kind of marketing... By the way, love your videos.
+1
Um, if you watched the whole video you would know that it was actually done.
5:57 where is this? I think it might be Canada, but I'm not sure
Yes. What you are seeing are the three Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, and Quebec. It may be difficult to tell if the landmass is Canada at first because the original image has been mirrored. The large water body featured in this clip is the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, which drains into the vast Atlantic Ocean.
@@liam-man7265 Ah, that's what I was thinking; thanks for the confirmation!
Nick Westbrook No problem!
Pilot: Were leaving the athmosphere sir!
*5 Minutes later**
Why are there toothpicks?
Sir, uhh we have lost control over oxygen sir!
SIR IT'S NOT TOOTHPICKS! IT'S EXTREMELY HOT NEEDLES SIR!!
*STOP IGNORING ME SENPAI!!*
Your infographic is inaccurate, the space shuttle program did not launch until the 1980's. The project was launched on Atlas Agena rockets.
Aliens intercepted and failed the project because it is dangerous and stupid. 😁
Is this mother 3
Wait what?^^
.. Wait, what?
The space shuttle did not yet exist..
It’s pronounced Westfahd. Or Westfurd if ur not from the area it’s all one word don’t separate it as much
Operation Credible Sport
nuclear mines :(