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Military Tech for Daily Life
PreacherTom writes "It is nothing new to see technology from military and governmental endeavors change daily life profoundly. One only has to look at the fruits of the space program (from computers to microwave ovens to Tang). New military gear is on the horizon that promises to do the same, including biosensors, bandages that clot blood using soundwaves, and the ubiquitous Swiss Army Pen."
denied the facts is already a part of everyones daily life, next story please..
Imagine if that money were directly spent on civilian medical research or civilian technology. Rather than getting lucky on some technologies and then waiting for those technologies to transfer to the civilian world, might we not get even better technologies by investing in the civilian world directly?
I guess you got a crate of Abu Ghraib anal probes too, eh?
*nudge, nudge*
*wink, wink*
The opposite of progress is congress
"It is nothing new to see technology from military and governmental endeavors change daily life profoundly."
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Sure. Military technology can change people's lives profoundly. Ask anyboy who stepped on a land mine.
Or even better: Why don't you ask the troops yourselves? Start with the ones who have breathed in depleted uranium
and have cancer, then talk to the guys who ended up terminally sick from the vaccination shots they were given.
All that is: Beyond Treason
http://www.beyondtreason.com/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=500514363