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Originally Posted by gacook View Post
You do realize nearly all technology-based items you use in your daily life got their start at NASA, right? Your "hate everything government" attitude gives you a very myopic view of the world you live in, Sammy.
Gotta call bull **** on that one.

But just to give you a chance, start naming them.
Here's a head start:
Let's see ...tang, Velcro,..... mylar ......... uh ........ hmmmm....... uh... oh then there's .......

My father and grandfather made careers out of being rocket scientists, and they would NEVER repeat the urban myth you just posted.

And even the things that THE SPACE PROGRAM (NASA itself doesn't make ANYTHING, they pay other companies to do it for them) did develop would have been 1/100th the cost if the same money had been offered to private enterprise R&D companies instead of plundering it in the muck that is gubmint waste.

And I do not hate everything government,
I hate government waste and manipulation and over-regulation. That's all.
But that pretty much sums up what all of gubmint is, doesn't it?
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