Good comment - and on top of that, you can't get a better bang-for-the-buck than spaceflight when it comes to exploring new technologies. Yeah yeah, fuel cell technology would have arrived with or without spaceflight, but it sure helped. And when somebody comes up with a more practical way than spaceflight to hold elem student's attention - let me know. Shuttle missions and probes to Mars are great topics for curriculum in K-6 education.
Cover-ups, disasters, budgets --small stuff. I would rather spend the money to do damage control than not travel to space at all.
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It is pitiful when your vidcard has more mem/power than your mainboard..
Maybe after all this novelty wears off, the Sunbeams and Osters will make something we can ACTUALLY use -- TP dispensers that can run Q3Arena..
Good comment - and on top of that, you can't get a better bang-for-the-buck than spaceflight when it comes to exploring new technologies. Yeah yeah, fuel cell technology would have arrived with or without spaceflight, but it sure helped. And when somebody comes up with a more practical way than spaceflight to hold elem student's attention - let me know. Shuttle missions and probes to Mars are great topics for curriculum in K-6 education.
Cover-ups, disasters, budgets --small stuff. I would rather spend the money to do damage control than not travel to space at all.