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Re: Gas turbine/electric hybrid?
Mike Hunter wrote:
> More importantly what about the need to make things small that let to
> better computers, cell phones, and microscopic surgery such as eye surgery,
> organ surgery and transplants. As well as the ability to reattach severed
> limbs etc?
>
Most of the things you mention had a tangential relationship to the
space program. It's true the space program speeded up many of those
things, but not that we would not have any of it without them. And
perhaps the pace of progress would have limited some of the regress we
have to face too, like offshoring of jobs, elimination of repair jobs,
and cheapening of all manner of products. It goes both ways.
Once a company has derived most of its income from NASA or the Air
Force it is permanently spoiled and will never want to work again for a
living. You'd have to fire or kill all of the executives and most of
the management to get them to pursue gainful market endeavors at
reasonable per-piece profit levels.
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