A Plethora of Inventions–Don’t you just love the word “Plethora?”
Life, Space March 24th, 2007
What’s Space exploration done for us lately—say, in the past 40++ years? Let’s jump beyond the usual answer of Tang (I could live my whole life without ever drinking Tang!): How about satellites used for live TV broadcasts anywhere in the world; Telecommunications ;beds (Tempurpedic, etc); smoke detectors; cordless tools such as drills, vacuums, hedge trimmers; digital imaging now commonly used in CATscans and MRIs; helped us detect words in the Dead Sea Scrolls (through technology used by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory); we can safely disarm landmines; mapping and hopefully containing forest fires; ear thermometers (bye bye mercury thermometers!); scratch resistant lenses (I keep forgetting that resistant doesn’t mean immune!); better golf balls. Anyway, you get the idea!
We are all intertwined; our countries; our peoples; flora; fauna; the wild and the tame; planets; stars; galaxies; the ever expanding universe. May we strive to grow this unity of energies and always keep the Higher Purpose in mind.
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March 24th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I believe there were a significant number of medical breakthroughs vis-a-vis space exploration. Can anyone elaborate?
March 25th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Charlie, go to http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinselect.html, ” If you enter the word “medicine” in the box labeled “search for text”, you’ll get a long list of articles that talk about the vast number of ways NASA has advanced the field of medicine.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Thanks, again
March 27th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Your mention of Tang brought back all sorts of memories from the 60’s space race … does anyone remember the candybar-like food they took up … as a young girl, I still remember the marketing campaign from it … just can’t remember the product name. I do remember that they were horrid, but because the advertising for them made them so intriguing and hip, they were palatable. They were wrapped in a paper/foil wrapper.
Anyone?