Let's not forget the most important government invention - invented as part
of the NASA Apollo missions.
Velcro.
Where would we be without it.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip.
Tom
From: "Joe Gwinn" <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxx>
<snip>
> There are many technologies that were first developed for or even by the
government, most often for a military purpose, that later become commercial.
Most often, it's the diffusion of the engineers from government projects
into commercial projects that causes diffusion of military technology into
the commercial world.
>
> Nor is this anything new. Arcimedes developed war engines for the
government of the Greek city-state Syracuse 200 years before Christ:
<http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html>
>
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