I have believed that the vacuum tube delayed the advent of solid state electronics. The crystal detector was in use before the vacuum tube was invented, http//www.solarbotics.net/bftgu/starting_elect_sem ic.html, if that avenue had been persued before the tube came of age maybe I wouldn't have spent a large part of my time in the Navy (1957-60) lugging a tube caddy around the ship.
Come on, all these scientists are standing on a big ball of natural resources. Pretty much like the "valuable resources" on the moon and asteroids.
These Buck Rodgers guys just want another excuse to put big bucks into space. Leave space to the unmanned spacecraft which can do any job you can think of without the massive added expense of carrying man's environment with him wherever he goes.
(Maybe I spent too much time in the NASA network pushing back the frontiers of space)
Used to work at a sister site in Alaska for NASA, same 85 ft antennas.
Not particularly creepy, had a crew of 35, 24/7.
The site was a tourist attraction, once gave a tour to Mr. Sulu,(George T.) and his family.
I was there when Kennedy was assasinated, hey, we were tracking satellites, doing our job, just like everyone else... sinister stuff mainly exists in imaginations.
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I have believed that the vacuum tube delayed the advent of solid state electronics.m ic.html, if that avenue had been persued before the tube came of age maybe I wouldn't have spent a large part of my time in the Navy (1957-60) lugging a tube caddy around the ship.
The crystal detector was in use before the vacuum tube was invented, http//www.solarbotics.net/bftgu/starting_elect_se
Come on, all these scientists are standing on a big ball of natural resources. Pretty much like the "valuable resources" on the moon and asteroids.
These Buck Rodgers guys just want another excuse to put big bucks into space. Leave space to the unmanned spacecraft which can do any job you can think of without the massive added expense of carrying man's environment with him wherever he goes.
(Maybe I spent too much time in the NASA network pushing back the frontiers of space)
Used to work at a sister site in Alaska for NASA, same 85 ft antennas. Not particularly creepy, had a crew of 35, 24/7. The site was a tourist attraction, once gave a tour to Mr. Sulu,(George T.) and his family. I was there when Kennedy was assasinated, hey, we were tracking satellites, doing our job, just like everyone else... sinister stuff mainly exists in imaginations.