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EVieira wrote:

SmkenRez wrote:

ford owns more than half of the stock in nasa whats this tell you...........

NASA is publicly traded?

Me thinks not since it is a not for profit organization..lol

Kmarion wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

According to Wikipedia, Velcro being a NASA thing appears to have come from Men in Black, and they stole it off Aliens. Or else it's just popularly credited with inventing it.

I explained

EDIT: Even if the money wasn't spent on NASA, you can pretty much guarantee it would do much good. That's just the way governments work.

Last edited by ghettoperson (2007-01-08 11:09:01)

NASA has put out some great products, but they are a pretty expessive way to do research and development.

I think NASA is great, but they are a luxury that we just can't afford right now.  We need to pay off some debt first.

ghettoperson wrote:

Wait, so NASA invented flash drives? Or NASA invented badass 2Gb Ti ones?

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/techno … metal.html Liquid Metal ones (visions Terminator 3)
http://liquidmetal.com/

Last edited by Kmarion (2007-01-08 11:15:30)

EVieira wrote:

SmkenRez wrote:

ford owns more than half of the stock in nasa whats this tell you...........

NASA is publicly traded?

no its not publicly trade other wise i would own stock in nasa.

Kmarion wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

Wait, so NASA invented flash drives? Or NASA invented badass 2Gb Ti ones?

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/techno … metal.html Liquid Metal ones (visions Terminator 3)

Neither one. They invented a new alloy, that Sandisk used to make its 2Gb flash drives casings at no benefit to the customer. 2Gb drives could be cased in plastic, it would still be nothing more than a 2Gb drive. But it sounds cool to say your drive is made out of NASA liquid metal, doesn't it ?

NASA kicks arse, its done a lot of good for all of humanity, and is something that Americans have every right to be proud of.

yeah let NASA disband... then the European and Asian space agencies will rule the skies mwhahahaha (and maybe some Australians who knows)

Kmarion wrote:

A few interesting excerpts from the essays posted here http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explo … ive_1.html

"The cost-benefit analysis would not show any economic profit. That makes sense if economic profit is what you think life is all about."

"The late twentieth century will be remembered collectively as the time when humans not only saw the Earth as a fragile planet against the backdrop of space, but also utilized near-Earth space to study the planet's resources, to provide essential information about weather, and to provide means for navigation that was both life-saving and had enormous economic implications. Worldwide satellite communications brought the world closer together, a factor difficult to estimate from a cost-benefit analysis. Names like Landsat, GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites), Intelsat and Global Positioning System may not be household words, but they affect humanity in significant ways not always appreciated."

"The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness toward light. It is therefore to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge. Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man."

russians started it all :p first satelite, first dog, first man :p

Kmarion wrote:

What they were really after was the moon .

usa landed on the moon just to recover the lost honnor :p it was useless to go on the moon :p
but satelite tech is widely used :p

Last edited by Mogura (2007-01-08 12:38:09)

EVieira wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

Mason4Assassin444 wrote:

Improved weather studies- Yet Global Warming is still denied and weathermen can't tell the weather from a hole in the wall.

NASA don't deny it. They say it is the biggest threat to human civilisation short of a super volcano or a meteor hit.

Ok, but we don't need NASA to tell us that. There's plenty of more specialized institutions researching the climate

NASA conduct a vast amount of research into climate change. They are also amongst the leading expert in satellite temperature analysis.

EVieira wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

Mason4Assassin444 wrote:

Hundreds of thousands of people have their jobs linked one way or the other to NASA- clarify please.

NASA is big. A large proportion of their funding goes in paying salaries to Americans.

So is the IRS...

What was the last important scientific discovery the IRS came up with?

EVieira wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

Mason4Assassin444 wrote:

Cell tech- Clarification please.

Many phones and other communication systems use satellite links.

Still far from contributing to mobile phone technology...

How so? Satellites are used for almost all international calls whether on land lines or mobile phones. They are also used directly by satellite phones, which have the correct technology onboard to interface directly with the satellites rather than using a celluar ground based relay centre.

EVieira wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

Mason4Assassin444 wrote:

TV Tech- Satellite FTL! Cable all the way.

If you live in an area with no cable coverage then satellite is better. If you live in the UK Sky (Satellite) is better than any cable offerings.

Nasa did not invent communication satellites, as far as I know. I could be wrong here... They didn't even invent the satellite, the Russians launched the first one.

Sputnik was a communications satellite. The focus here was on media communications. NASA launched most (if not all) of the early media broadcast satellites. In fact NASA makes a lot of money sending satellites into space. You have to pay them loads of money to launch something into space for you. The French have made a lot f money from Arrianne, I'm sure NASA make even more.

EVieira wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

Mason4Assassin444 wrote:

Velcro- Please explain. I mean, velcro......c'mon.

This I don't get. A Swiss bloke invented velcro ages ago.

Well, NASA did invent the zero G pen at the cost of a few million dollars. NASA might think thats money well spent. Well, the Russians prefered to just use pencils in space...

That's not true. It's just been made up.
The space pen was developed independently of NASA and they didn't pay anything towards development costs. Using a pencil in space would be very reckless, I find it highly unlikely that the Russians use normal pencils in space. A normal pen should work in zero G anyway.

Last edited by Bertster7 (2007-01-08 14:04:37)

Al Gore invented NASA.

sfarrar33 wrote:

yeah let NASA disband... then the European and Asian space agencies will rule the skies mwhahahaha (and maybe some Australians who knows)

We're teaming up with Japan, China and Russia. Oh how the world has changed.