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grantspain:
hey ark do you have an american accent yet,trying to get my head round a lancashire/nevada dialect.
ay up duck ---goshdarn--- muther ;D

Grasshopper:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on July 19, 2008, 03:09:58 pm ---
We can thank Bill Gates for bringing the price down with respect to Windows and having a computer on every desktop, ...


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Not really. We can thank the clone manufacturers who reverse-engineered the IBM PC's BIOS, and also thank IBM for their complacency and stupidity. Microsoft simply took advantage of the situation and then created a monopoly of their own.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on July 19, 2008, 08:21:19 am ---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!  :cheers:

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HAD

by the way, no one has mentioned the asstastic wonder that is Teflon (tm)! apparently that was an offshoot of the space race. and those pens that can write upside down...

shmokes:
Yes, why has nobody mentioned Teflon, LMAO?

Here are a couple links to Apollo technology making our lives better:

http://space.about.com/od/toolsequipment/ss/apollospinoffs_3.htm
http://space.about.com/od/toolsequipment/ss/apollospinoffs_2.htm
http://space.about.com/od/toolsequipment/ss/apollospinoffs.htm

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on July 20, 2008, 03:33:11 am ---Yes, why has nobody mentioned Teflon, LMAO?

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--- Quote from: patrickl on July 18, 2008, 05:07:27 pm ---I could only think of Teflon.

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--- Quote from: Level42 on July 18, 2008, 05:17:15 pm ---Ha, teflon was commercially released in 1946 !

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Teflon/Teflon-HistoryDuPont.htm

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I guess those 3 list explains why noone remembers these advances (other than technological advances being stressed by NASA I'll bet)

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