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Buzz Aldrin knocks out a reporter
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on July 18, 2008, 05:25:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on July 18, 2008, 05:21:36 pm ---For lunar lander related "technological advances used in everyday life"?
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Why you gotta be like that?
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Well, I'm wondering what Saint is referring too. I saw people naming Teflon, Tang and Velcro. All these were actually invented just (around a decade or two) before the lunar landings. I guess their rise to fame coincided with their use during the lunar landings and so people falsely assume they are results off the lunar landing program. Still, they aren't really.
Level42:
I'm not discussing the benefits of space programs, but that of _moon_ landing missions.
Have we all forgotten what the Apollo program was REALLY about ?
It was about a stupid race between the US and the USSR to put a man first on the moon. Why ?
It was a spin-off of the cold-war.
A way (they thought) to prove which "side" was "better". Also to frighten each-other even more....
Jdurg:
Teflon was simply one of the more serendipitous "accidents" we've come across. :P
Ed_McCarron:
If it wasn't for the moon landing, we'd never have built the moon-based launch site for the giant space ark.
Remember a few years back, when the earth was about to be destroyed by a giant asteroid?
The government put us all into the giant space ark, and sent us to the planet we live on now?
Remember?
Then, they decided not to tell the stupid people because they were afraid it'd cause a pani...
Oh.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: whammoed on July 18, 2008, 07:12:36 am ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 18, 2008, 01:52:25 am ---Is panache really even an ingredient, let alone the number one ingredient in rebuilding NASA from the ground up? ;D
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It is if you want your new NASA to be fabulous.
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How about some balls? I don't know about anyone else, but I got bored with space walks since the late 90's. Want to ignite interest in the space program again? Put your astronauts into a life threatening situation, plop a research facility right onto the surface of the moon or send their asses to Mars for a walk-about. Enough of the stupid remote controled rovers and lost Beagles, send a human to land and see if we don't screw up again.
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