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Mum 30/09/20 Dad 08/08/24
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, A secret Moonbase (shh don't tell anybody)
Age: 56
Services: 2 x TiVo 360s, SH5. Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G, Ton's of Smart Home stuff, & Cuddy Toy
Posts: 17,257
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Re: Obama announces Manned Mission to Mars!
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Why not? The last space race cost a lot of money, but was responsible for massive technical advances in all areas of life. Right from sunglasses (polarised lenses), through cooking (Teflon) to computing (massive advances in computing power and even the Relational Database was invented to help NASA keep track of parts).
There were also (I believe) advance in communications as well as a lot of others.
So, we profited even if the conspiracy theories about no one actually going to the moan (and I still believe they did) are correct.
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Sorry thats an urban legend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off
Contrary to common belief, NASA did not invent Tang, Velcro, or Teflon. [1]
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