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    12 hours ago

    Llook geopolitics aside, I cannot believe we americans missed out on having the “JORN” radar system. What an incredible name.

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        10 hours ago

        It’s the most advanced radar system in the world, but inexplicably it’s only used to monitor Iowa…

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        6 hours ago

        Can’t tell if your referring to jorn in relation to meme or why ‘jorn’ is so good.

        Jorn is the Jindallee over the horizon radar network.

        Not sure exactly how it works, but someone put up a big array of radar transmitters and receivers in the outback and it might use the HF band like Ham radio users use to bounce off the ionosphere to get returns.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s just a great word. “joooooooooorn”. Plus the images would undoubtedly be referred to as “jornography” which is just grand.