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Article: Kodiak's talking heavens. (antenna network to be constructed on Alaskan island)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Global Antenna Network Links Alaska To Space
Scientists worldwide are in the midst of constructing a gigantic network of antennas around the North and South poles to better understand the physics at play in space. The system stretches from Finland to Central Canada and, soon, to Kodiak Island, the first site to be erected on U.S. soil.
Philosophers during the Roman Empire thought the auroras were fissures in the night sky that let light in from the other side of darkness. The Eskimos believed the colorful waves of light were ancestors playing ball with walrus skulls, light leaking out when the tusks poked holes in the dark heavens.
Folklore about the ...