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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Because it was simply a smokescreen to fool the gullible public into thinking it was NOT an excuse to fund ICBM development?
The cold war is over, we have thousands of ICBMs, the public is used to giving NASA $19 billion a year for nothing, there's no need for the excuse anymore.
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The dumbest post on Pelican I have seen in a while.
The technology derived from the NASA is staggering. Walk into any hospital and you will see tons of technology invented to monitor astronauts that all hospitals use. The computer we all use is from NASA driven research. The inventions of the IMU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_measurement_unit
The technology used to purify the water on the space station used all over the world now. The list is endless.
Nothing will ever change your closed mind, I realize that.
The pure science of the Hubble telescope to the rovers on Mars right now all have technologies you will be using on a day to day basis to make your life, and your children's lives better. Yea, really.