Breakthroughs Under Your Feet: Science and Kick-Ass Chili Cookoffs
In the peaceful town of Montauk, Long Island, stands a piece of history: a monument to one of man’s greatest achievements, a commemoration of the full cooperation of science and military spending, and the extravagance of the human mind. Yet, at the same time, it is a simple radar dish.
Built to watch over the uncharted skies of the Midwest, surveying through the clouds for red freedom naysayers, the dish was decommissioned in 1954 due to the rising population in the area threatening its facade as a sleepy fishing town. The dish sat on its hill, an orphaned reminder to Middle America of outlandish military spending habits.
Around 1961, enough “heat” from the Philadelphia Experiment had blown over to continue diving into more frivolous scientific research. With renowned outsider scientist Martin Kane at the helm, an unnamed project was presented to Congress. It was to be a facility that gathered the best scientific minds to explore the fields of time travel, meta-human experiments, subliminal message systems, aircraft prototypes, teleportation, bio-engineering, and the melding of country music with rock ’n’ roll. Having run out of space on the official form, Kane summed the research up as “General Scientific…
