Re: some here will find this amusing

On Saturday 17 January 2004 23:15, dep wrote:

> the apollo program produced more in the way of electronics
> development, at lower cost, than anything else could have,

Do you have specific examples ? As far as I know, neither the transistor nor 
the integrated circuit were consequences of the Apollo program.

> it provides returns in a whole
> lot of areas; indeed, the space exploration itself turns out to be a
> small percentage of it.

Then why not focusing directly on those areas, and save a few gallons of 
liquid oxygen and hydrogen while doing it ?

> it requires that we find ways of doing the impossible.

Aren't there plenty of "impossible" things worth doing on the surface of the 
Earth already ?

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