On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 10:48:19 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > >At some point he looked out of the window and he saw the radar tower, >which is about >half a mile away and is needed for the traffic control of the airport >nearby. So he speculated > A co-worker had worked for the FAA at a commercial airport near a military airfield. Military controlled its airspace; airport controlled its. He made a scatter plot of where planes vanished from civilian control, thinking it might be useful..He showed it to a military colleague who was aghast that the boundary of military control, classified, was publicly available.
I heard a story of a physics lab that tried to operate a computer room next to a spark chamber. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN