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Originally Posted by Apathetress i'm sure most of you have heard about the Manhatten Project and maybe some of you have heard of the Philladelphia Story as well which goes with the Manhatten Project ...here's the PS in a nutshell ..if i'm missing anything or wrong on anything please clarify for me.
The government said it had made a machine that could make something invisable. they put it on a ship that was going out to kill ..some other ship. now supposively when they turned the machine on it disappeared for about 10 minutes and when it reappeared the men on the ship were entangled in with the metal everything was a big mess and very few survived. |
As far as I'm aware, the "Manhatten Project" was a term applied to many research projects conducted by the US Military, usually involving or relating to discovery's which cumulated in the creation of the Hydrogen Atomic bomb.
I know the movie/story which your refering to Apathetress,
but I believe this was just one of (many) research projects which created/used in the main project, of developing the bomb.
As to the story, I believe it was closer to:
The governemnt was conducting research on ways to "hide" (or make invisable)
ships to enemy radar (remembering that Radar itself was fairly new technology).
Anyway, so they (apparently) created a device, which would be installed on the Ship, and somehow make it "invisable" to rader. Oh.. and obviously this device was nuclear based fission technology, hence its involvement as part of the overall Manhattan Project.
The story goes that something went "wrong" (being the operative word), the entire ship physically disappeared - and then re-appeared, some time later, in an entirelly different location (several hundred km's away).
As to the crew... in the story I remember, they all disapeared, never seen again, and the entire project was immediately classified.
Short update...
Microwave radar, was developed in the US under the Manahattan Project, along with the proximity fuse