Project West Ford was a hairbrained attempt to envelop our planet with copper needles which portended severe danger to Earth while allaying General’s fantasies about protecting us from Russia. — I do not claim to know the science involved, but Googling Project West Ford will fill in this blank. The paranoid illusion led to such expert angst that on planet Thiaoouba, an expert intervention led to the removal of the bulk of the West Ford needles from the litter that…