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DaOld Man:
Amen Brother!
Back to the original post: Way to go Mr. Aldrin!
Singapura:
--- Quote ---What did we get out of the space missions and going to the moon?
Kennedy said we are going to the moon, and America answered the call and we did it. Not Russia, not China or Europe.
Shows that we have the power to do anything, thus the reason why Americans are the leaders of the world, the rest of the globe follows.
We go into space because we can.
You cannot get any better than that. Don't like that? Get over it!
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What complete and utter nonsense. The US went to the moon because they had the resources to do it. It doesn't have anything to do with one nation being better then another nation just that one nation had more money to do it. If Donald Trump decides to hire a football team that becomes world champion, it doesn't mean he's good at playing football. It just was a pissing contest on a global scale. The conspiracy theorists just like to say it didn't happen because it makes their miserable boring little lives a bit more interesting.
Jdurg:
One thing the moon mission DID do was increase space funding more which allowed more modern technologies to exist. Computers today are light and small, and I'd be hard pressed to believe that the research into that wasn't caused by space exploration needs. A LOT of technology today didn't come out directly from the moon mission, but did develop from later space exploration research that wouldn't have existed without the moon mission.
Level42:
--- Quote from: Jdurg on July 19, 2008, 10:21:33 am ---Computers today are light and small, and I'd be hard pressed to believe that the research into that wasn't caused by space exploration needs.
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FYI, the Space Shuttle's main computer was run by a processor that was already obsolete after a couple of years.
Computers didn't get small because of space needs, they became small because of the advancing technology (from relays to tubes, from tubes to transistors, from transistors to IC's. The technology to do it was developed first, then the computers became smaller.
I'm not going to respond to Arc_Ader's response because that's something for the political section and there's a reason why I don't want to be allowed there :)
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Level42 on July 19, 2008, 11:16:14 am ---
--- Quote from: Jdurg on July 19, 2008, 10:21:33 am ---Computers today are light and small, and I'd be hard pressed to believe that the research into that wasn't caused by space exploration needs.
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FYI, the Space Shuttle's main computer was run by a processor that was already obsolete after a couple of years.
Computers didn't get small because of space needs, they became small because of the advancing technology (from relays to tubes, from tubes to transistors, from transistors to IC's. The technology to do it was developed first, then the computers became smaller.
I'm not going to respond to Arc_Ader's response because that's something for the political section and there's a reason why I don't want to be allowed there :)
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Nothing political about it. Its history.
See how the world reacts to American Markets today and you will see that the history of the last 40 years is repeating itself. If it wasn't for the involvement of the USA during WW2 Europe of today would still be German. America was and still is the leader of commerce, and foreign policy. I'd hate to think what would have happened to Russia if America didn't help out when Hitler broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Well Russia wouldn't have gone to the moon, lets say that.
I don't have to look at it as a political stance, I'm just invoking history. What we have accomplished as a global power in 60 years is just quite amazing.
We have computers that are smaller and faster, that was originated by WW2 mechanics. The story from Enigma to Colossus to the Duo and Quad Core processors of today is brought in part of defeating Hitler's Third Reich and their code system.
We can thank Bill Gates for bringing the price down with respect to Windows and having a computer on every desktop, thank Ross Perot for screwing up IBM (and helping out Steve Jobs by funding OS X).
Heck if it wasn't from the help from the ruins of the Wehrmacht and V2 wizard of the day, Wernher Von Braun, the space program wouldn't have left the ground until much later.
Did anyone watch the Discovery Channel and the series about NASA last month? All those space missions to the moon, and no base of operations on the moon. Everything just stopped.
Was it because going to the moon was over rated or was it due to the government spending at the time?
History dictates my post, Level 42 not politics. :cheers:
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