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9. What nonsense.
All technology and science piggybacks. No one is dumb enough to try to reinvent the wheel.

The Boeing 707 was created by the US Air Force as a tanker? and then the technology was given for free to Boeing.

Practically all Research and Development in military technology ended up in civilian hands where we are all enjoying the products of what we paid for as taxpayers funding military and space programs.

Ever heard of Tang?
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  Are the moon landings tainted because the technology piggy-backed on the U.S. nuclear program? arcadian  Jul-21-09 01:42 PM   #0 
   Military program? The Apollo program was a great accomplishment.  FSogol   Jul-21-09 01:46 PM   #1 
   going to the moon was more about the cold war than space exploration.  dysfunctional press   Jul-21-09 01:48 PM   #4 
   Indeed.  Robb   Jul-21-09 02:16 PM   #22 
   Yeah, creating technology that wasn't even good for one generation is always a good investment.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 01:49 PM   #5 
      the spin off from apollo includes the web and the pc  endarkenment   Jul-21-09 01:52 PM   #6 
      Yup. There very idea of people using computers, or velcro, or teflon  RaleighNCDUer   Jul-21-09 01:54 PM   #10 
         Teflon was around before the space program.  redqueen   Jul-21-09 01:58 PM   #12 
         Ha. I know I was taught that teflon was invented for the space program.  RaleighNCDUer   Jul-21-09 02:12 PM   #18 
            Dude, how can you be *wrong* about Tang?  Robb   Jul-21-09 02:17 PM   #24 
            Actually you are wrong about Tang  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:19 PM   #28 
               Oh, crap.  RaleighNCDUer   Jul-21-09 02:26 PM   #37 
               Not so much an urban legend as NASA propaganda  FarCenter   Jul-21-09 02:30 PM   #40 
         O RLY?  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:07 PM   #16 
         Care to respond to post 12?  PVnRT   Jul-21-09 02:17 PM   #23 
         You want me to pick apart every one of those things? No problem.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:29 PM   #39 
            It's only too easy because you're being lazy.  redqueen   Jul-21-09 02:43 PM   #46 
               Wow, a few trinkets here and there, fascinating.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:52 PM   #53 
                  A few trinkets? You really are lazy!  redqueen   Jul-21-09 02:55 PM   #54 
                  A magazine that highlights NASAs achievements that is put out by NASA is hardly a credible source.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 03:04 PM   #57 
                     Oh yeah, it's all lies. Year's worth of lies...  redqueen   Jul-21-09 03:07 PM   #58 
                     Are you having a dialogue with yourself?  arcadian   Jul-21-09 03:25 PM   #63 
                        Hahaha... okay then what did you mean when you said it wasn't credible?  redqueen   Jul-21-09 03:33 PM   #68 
                     The weight of disproof lies with the critic...  LanternWaste   Jul-21-09 07:23 PM   #86 
                  Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-21-09 07:19 PM   #85 
         Sure - check out Redqueen's link above, post #12.  RaleighNCDUer   Jul-21-09 02:18 PM   #25 
            Check out arcadian's response above, post #39.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:32 PM   #41 
         there's nothing laughable about teflon cookware.  dysfunctional press   Jul-21-09 02:21 PM   #31 
            Yeah teflon is hardly an achievement. That shit is poison.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:41 PM   #45 
   No. Next question.  Richardo   Jul-21-09 01:47 PM   #2 
   That's cool  arcadian   Jul-21-09 01:48 PM   #3 
      I imagine we all...  LanternWaste   Jul-21-09 07:26 PM   #87 
   Yes. Everything America does sucks.  Richardo   Jul-21-09 01:52 PM   #7 
   Attention whore  arcadian   Jul-21-09 01:55 PM   #11 
   Heck why not go back to V1 V2 and slave labor? nt.  endarkenment   Jul-21-09 01:53 PM   #8 
   Remember the Vanguard?  FarCenter   Jul-21-09 02:14 PM   #19 
      That's my point. Our space program directly benefited from  endarkenment   Jul-21-09 02:20 PM   #30 
         Although it directly benefited from the Nazi program, it probably didn't benefit from the slave labo  FarCenter   Jul-21-09 02:26 PM   #38 
            You think wrong.  endarkenment   Jul-21-09 02:57 PM   #55 
               Mittelbau-Dora was producing V2s after the designs were complete  FarCenter   Jul-21-09 03:15 PM   #61 
                  Carefully separate the tainted parts of the spoiled meat  endarkenment   Jul-21-09 03:22 PM   #62 
                  I'd be careful about talking about spoiled meat  Confusious   Jul-21-09 11:02 PM   #94 
                     WTF - we took nazi scientists who built and tested missiles  endarkenment   Jul-22-09 10:26 AM   #100 
                  If you are turning to the Wiki...  Carl Skan   Jul-21-09 05:07 PM   #79 
                     You must have meant to reply to endarkenment  FarCenter   Jul-21-09 06:25 PM   #82 
                        If somebody here on nazi apologist underground cares  endarkenment   Jul-22-09 10:27 AM   #101 
   What nonsense.  suston96   Jul-21-09 01:53 PM   #9 
   Is baseball tainted because warfare used to be done with wooden bats?  havocmom   Jul-21-09 01:58 PM   #13 
   No, but I'd say it is because of it's discriminatory practices against blacks.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:09 PM   #17 
      And by "it" you mean Western Civilization. nt  Robb   Jul-21-09 02:19 PM   #27 
      I'm pretty sure Europe didn't have the same discriminatory practices  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:23 PM   #32 
         You're probably right  Robb   Jul-21-09 02:25 PM   #35 
         You asserted that "Western Civilization" was behind the unfair treatment of blacks.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:37 PM   #42 
            Deleted sub-thread  Name removed   Jul-21-09 03:37 PM   #69 
         Yea, but go back far enough,  Confusious   Jul-21-09 11:45 PM   #96 
      Prehaps, but that is not the logic of the OP  havocmom   Jul-21-09 10:34 PM   #92 
   Of the things it could be tainted by...  Carl Skan   Jul-21-09 02:01 PM   #14 
   BINGO  havocmom   Jul-21-09 10:36 PM   #93 
   It Worked. Almost Nobody Got Killed.  MannyGoldstein   Jul-21-09 02:05 PM   #15 
   Yeah Gus Grissom was almost a nobody.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:16 PM   #21 
      And I'd bet you every one of them would call your OP what it is: utter neo-luddite gibberish.  Warren DeMontague   Jul-21-09 02:18 PM   #26 
      Speaking for the dead now are we?  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:24 PM   #34 
         Look who's talking. nt  Robb   Jul-21-09 02:25 PM   #36 
         No, you are.  Warren DeMontague   Jul-21-09 02:39 PM   #43 
         Let me dig out my English to 3rd Grade dictionary.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:45 PM   #48 
            What was your point, then? That the Astronauts didn't know they were risking their lives?  Warren DeMontague   Jul-21-09 09:18 PM   #91 
         Almost as dishonest (and quite a bit more ghoulish) ...  LanternWaste   Jul-21-09 03:32 PM   #67 
      That's Not What I Said, Of Course  MannyGoldstein   Jul-21-09 02:50 PM   #50 
   Only the early days  zipplewrath   Jul-21-09 02:15 PM   #20 
   Nope. Not even a little.  Raskolnik   Jul-21-09 02:20 PM   #29 
   +1...  SidDithers   Jul-21-09 02:39 PM   #44 
   Not at all. I love the record of the space program. Having our flag on the moon makes me proud  rockymountaindem   Jul-21-09 02:23 PM   #33 
   Guess what? The Soviets put their flag there first and there are more of them.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 03:27 PM   #64 
      Really? What was the cosmonaut's name? n/t  Raskolnik   Jul-21-09 03:32 PM   #66 
      Unmanned probe.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 04:13 PM   #71 
         Funny, doesn't sound like a Russian name.  Raskolnik   Jul-21-09 04:32 PM   #74 
         Crashing into the moon and being smashed to pieces is a weird way to plant a flag  NickB79   Jul-21-09 05:04 PM   #78 
      Ooooh, robots  rockymountaindem   Jul-21-09 06:17 PM   #81 
      As a proletarian, I am proud that our red flag stands there!  JVS   Jul-21-09 06:42 PM   #83 
   PCs and the Internet are technology which are leftovers from the Cold War too.  baldguy   Jul-21-09 02:44 PM   #47 
   "...nuclear delivery..." ??? We didn't use nuclear for space. Or did you mean  Ilsa   Jul-21-09 02:47 PM   #49 
   Yeah but the question is does that make it "tainted"? (nt)  redqueen   Jul-21-09 02:51 PM   #51 
   Atlas, Redstone and Titan launch vehicles were all dual use.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 02:58 PM   #56 
      I stand corrected. Screwed that one up, didn't I? nt  Ilsa   Jul-21-09 05:39 PM   #80 
   Told ya we should have gone with the hemp-fueled boosters. n/t  Davis_X_Machina   Jul-21-09 02:52 PM   #52 
   With enough hemp, you don't need the boosters.  MilesColtrane   Jul-21-09 04:23 PM   #73 
   No.  DireStrike   Jul-21-09 03:09 PM   #59 
   Agree - scientific research and discovery itself cannot be blamed  fujiyama   Jul-22-09 12:00 AM   #98 
   No. This is idiotic. n/t  Cessna Invesco Palin   Jul-21-09 03:10 PM   #60 
   We should never do nothin' because America sucks  theboss   Jul-21-09 03:29 PM   #65 
   They were busy turning their nose up at it  Confusious   Jul-21-09 11:08 PM   #95 
   All metal-hulled ships are tainted because they're derived from the Monitor battleship  NickB79   Jul-21-09 03:59 PM   #70 
   That is not a very good analogy.  arcadian   Jul-21-09 04:46 PM   #76 
   WTF? Hell no.  Odin2005   Jul-21-09 04:20 PM   #72 
   There's no end to the "is this or that tainted because...?" game. Everything's tainted by something.  VOX   Jul-21-09 04:32 PM   #75 
   Not one fucking bit  MicaelS   Jul-21-09 04:57 PM   #77 
   If you think a robot could have done what was done  Bluenorthwest   Jul-21-09 06:49 PM   #84 
   Better yet... who cares?  Fearless   Jul-21-09 07:26 PM   #88 
   I'm actually shocked that it took so long for someone to finally say out loud  cherokeeprogressive   Jul-21-09 07:28 PM   #89 
   Only to someone who wants to bend reality. Rockets capable of getting into space  ChimpersMcSmirkers   Jul-21-09 07:28 PM   #90 
   Wonder's well is far deep into the earth and spans the heavens.  saltpoint   Jul-21-09 11:46 PM   #97 
   Of course a big part of it was propaganda  fujiyama   Jul-22-09 12:15 AM   #99 
 

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