9 Jun
2000
9 Jun
'00
6:32 p.m.
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Hans Franke wrote:
Seriously, I doubt that any usefull development has been done by accident.
None of these technologies have been invented because of the space race,
it's plain old hard work to do it - and this will have happened anyway.
Of course the space exploration did bring a vast amount of new knowledge
about nature and the universe, but no new technology that wouldn't have
been developed at all. Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% pro space exploration,
we just should be smart enough to see marketing schemes when they creep
around.
No, I'm not. As usual, I have no idea what Dick was blathering about.
But, the point is that WWII and the Space Race brought about unprecedented
advancements in many fields of technology, not the least of which was
computing technology.
This is moronically obvious and I am not making any sort of astute
observation here.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Looking for a six in a pile of nines...
Coming soon: VCF 4.0!
VCF East: Planning in Progress
See http://www.vintage.org for details!
Yeah, things like the Space Race and WWII did nothing
for rapid
technological evolution and development, the least of which benefitted
from this was computers.
So many of these major discoveries were made purely by
accident. Accidents
which might not have happened if Engineers and Scientists hadn't had the
freedom, and the funding, to take time with this or that strange phenomenon
observed in conjunction with an accident. I certainly hope you're joking!
He is :)