• eric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Please tell me you’re being facetious, because radar has been in use for more than 80 years.

    • SaiPenguin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I believe that radar should be read as radar system. That is to say it was a new radar system that had not been fully learned yet not that radar as a concept was new.

    • Eezyville
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      1 year ago

      80 years ago is the 1940’s. But the report was ignored due to lack of training. The way I heard, it was due to radar being relatively new, untested, and thus untrusted.

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      1 year ago

      That would make the radar tech very old and likely you could not trust their work either.