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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tiros II has five detectors that measure different kinds of infra-red radiation coming up from the earth. They are working splendidly, and their reports will give new information about the earth's albedo (reflectivity) and about the temperature and humidity of the upper layers of the atmosphere. This...
Tiros I misbehaved in an unexpected way. Its internal electrical circuits reacted with the earth's magnetic field and made the satellite's axis swing slowly away from the desired direction. To keep this from happening again. Tiros II has turns of aluminum wire running around its girth...
A scientific answer: it is probably seeking the company of other chickens, and if it is a young chicken, this sociability indicates that it was raised with other chickens around. These are the findings reported by University of Maine Psychologists Alan Baron and George B. Kish, who measured the effect...
After four weeks, the chickens were tested for sociability by putting them one by one in an apparatus that kept automatic track of how much time they spent near a "stimulus" chicken, separated from them by a partition of wire mesh. The chickens raised in a flock or in pairs...
After the first tests were completed, all the chickens were put in a single flock and kept together until they were ten weeks old. When they were cooped again in the togetherness tester, they all behaved pretty much alike toward the stimulus chicken on the other side of the wire...