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From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Giant Magnet
Message-ID: <147@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 10:06:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 10:06:39 1984
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> Wasn't there a plan to put a giant (miles on a side) antenna
> someplace in upstate Wisconsin, for communication with submarines
> while they were underwater? As I recall, the plan was scrapped
> because the Wisconsinners (sp?) didn't like the idea.
> Might this have been the "giant magnet"?

  I'm afraid that the navy is going ahead with project ELF
in Nothern Wisconsin, near the town of Clam Lake.  There
have been lots of protests and lawsuits.