9 Jun
2000
9 Jun
'00
6:45 p.m.
Ahoi Dick,
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.
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 :)
Gruss
H.
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