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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
And almost everything to do with science and mathematics has absolutely nothing to do with NASA.
NASA is not a synonym for science, so why are you pretending it is? Perhaps people just see it as a huge waste of time and expense to check out barren, uninhabitable planets when, for example, 95% of our own ocean, covering 70% of this planet, is still unexplored.
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People are fucking stupid. Namely you.
Do you not understand that if it wasn't for NASA and the US Government and the money they invested forty years ago you wouldn't have a computer on your desk right now, no less the Internet.
Did you know that roads are built safer now because of NASA? Scratch-resistant Lenses were created by NASA for space - the same exact ones I'm wearing now. Ear Thermometers, Shoe Insoles, Long-distance Telecommunications and cell phones, Smoke Detectors, cordless drills, water filters, memory foam, Anti-corrosion Coating, hearing aids, frozen food, CAT Scans.... All of this in hindsight seems very obvious now, but do you think if NASA didn't do work with shoe insoles in the 1960s during the Apollo missions that Nike would have the same sneaker they have now?
We might have cordless drills without NASA, but they would be with technology that was twenty years old. Memory foam might not sound too exciting - big deal, we have new mattresses - but I wonder how that has affected car seats and automobile safety...
All of these things sound so obvious and are so common today, but without NASA and our military we would be twenty - forty years behind in developing such simple items today.
Idiot.