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The Economic Failure of the Space Program
- olefoo 17y agoFrom the article: """There’s no manufacturing in space, and unless I’m wrong, there’s been little research done in space which has had great practical applications (please let me know if I’m wrong about this).""" Well there is this list http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/apollo.htm http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/apollo.htm of technology developed for the space program. But if you want space-based research of economic consequence; what of all of the weather satellites, the remote-sensing work done for resource management and discovery and the microgravity metallurgy and materials science work. This article reinforces the technological and economic illiteracy of BusinessWeek.
- olefoo 17y agoCharles stross said it better than I did. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/what_have_the_romans_done_for.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/what_hav...