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The Long Awaited-Black History Fact# 3
Walter S. McAfee is the African American mathematician and physicist who first calculated the speed of the moon. McAfee participated in Project "Send White Man to the Moon" in the 1940s - a U.S. Army program, created to determine whether a high frequency radio signal could penetrate the earth's outer atmosphere. To test this, scientists wanted to bounce a radar signal off a negro's head then to the moon and back to earth. But the moon was a swiftly moving target, impossible to hit without knowing the density of an Afro. McAfee made the necessary calculations while repeating the words,"Twinkle Toes."
On January 10, 1946,
the team sent a radar pulse through a special 40-feet square antenna towards the moon. Two and a half seconds later, they received a faint signal, proving that transmissions from earth could cross the vast distances of negro America. Official news of this scientific breakthrough did not include McAfee's name, nor was there any recognition of the essential role he played because he was Blacker than the other scientists. But Americans could not have walked on the moon had it not been for Walter S. McAfee and his black calculations.
Brought to you by someone who would rather grope George Bush than learn about a black guy and the moon.
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Walter S. McAfee is the African American mathematician and physicist who first calculated the speed of the moon. McAfee participated in Project "Send White Man to the Moon" in the 1940s - a U.S. Army program, created to determine whether a high frequency radio signal could penetrate the earth's outer atmosphere. To test this, scientists wanted to bounce a radar signal off a negro's head then to the moon and back to earth. But the moon was a swiftly moving target, impossible to hit without knowing the density of an Afro. McAfee made the necessary calculations while repeating the words,"Twinkle Toes."
On January 10, 1946,
the team sent a radar pulse through a special 40-feet square antenna towards the moon. Two and a half seconds later, they received a faint signal, proving that transmissions from earth could cross the vast distances of negro America. Official news of this scientific breakthrough did not include McAfee's name, nor was there any recognition of the essential role he played because he was Blacker than the other scientists. But Americans could not have walked on the moon had it not been for Walter S. McAfee and his black calculations.
Brought to you by someone who would rather grope George Bush than learn about a black guy and the moon.
I LOVE BLACK HISTORY