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Knowledge for what? What do we want to know? Is it for the sake of putting in a text book or showing neat pictures in a museum that people will forget about by
by quest88 4y ago
Knowledge for what? What do we want to know? Is it for the sake of putting in a text book or showing neat pictures in a museum that people will forget about by the next exhibit?
What did spending billions getting to the moon get us, bragging rights? What tangible benefit have we gotten from the space station and other space missions?
- leothecool 4y ago"What is the use of a newborn child?" - Ben Franklin
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- ceejayoz 4y agoAn enormous amount of human achievement comes from basic research that didn’t have an immediate obvious use case. Relativity gives us GPS, for example.
- accrual 4y ago> What tangible benefit have we gotten from the space station and other space missions? > Well-known products that NASA claims as spinoffs include memory foam (originally named temper foam), freeze-dried food, firefighting equipment, emergency "space blankets", DustBusters, cochlear implants, LZR Racer swimsuits, and CMOS image sensors. Plenty more in this well written list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
- quest88 4y agoThanks! This is what I was looking for.