spin off of space industry

For school I have to make a papaer over the benefits of space
exploration for leisure. A hard case for me. I am only familiar with a
few inventions. For example:
A satelite provides lots of TV channels
Or GPS for Geocaching
But I also heard about the development of sneakers was a spinn off of
this industry.
And off cause all the things that are provided by the electroic
industry. ( PC- game boxes)

My question here is. Have I something forgotten wat is really important
or interesting.

Perhaps is there somebody who knows a web page about this subject.

Greetings from The Netherland, Frans

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For school I have to make a papaer over the benefits of space exploration
for leisure. A hard case for me. I am only familiar with a few inventions.
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Greetings from The Netherland, Frans


Hi there,

Off the top of my head: Teflon coating and extreme heat resistant materials,
cordless power tools, batteries, lasers, optics (polarised glass),
robotics, telemetric/radio systems. The facility for our better
understanding of micro wave (ovens), weather, ocean, astronomy and super
computing systems, closed human environments that are dependent on precious
resources. The ‘black’ art form of engineering the lightest structures to
perform, absolutely, in the harshest of dynamic conditions and the science
of combustion, getting a rocket motor to propel at maximum thrust, without
exploding! Perhaps to support the most precious of cargo, ourselves. Also
the understanding of how to persuade the most complicated, autonomous
instruments millions of miles away from earth to do the most delicate of
manoeuvres and missions, without the aid of ’real time’ control, whilst
it's being bombarded by particles and radiation. This, to my mind represents
an exquisite, yet very expensive mechanical ballot dance. The leap of
knowledge
of how to be able to error correct and re-programme software on the ’fly’ to
flex a system, adapting perhaps to; part system failure or unpredictable
physical circumstances. Naturally this is what we do, as humans, to maximise
the odds of success out of potential failure. space exploration is
challenging and tapping into, in varying degrees, all our mental,
physical and financial resources, to build on the knowledge base of the
past, for our people of the future. I also observe that their appears to be
a collective/collaborative desire to do this stuff by all/most peoples of
the world,
transcending boundaries, creed and wealth. Intriguingly the ultimate
product/prize/understanding of this monumental effort is pricelessly
unknown.

I’m sorry about shifting a tad off topic, but once I get going on this
subject ;~) I’m also not involved in the space business in any way, but I’m
pleased to be supporting it, in a small way, through taxation, Michael.

Michael Butler wrote:
[[supposed spinoffs from space exploration]]

Off the top of my head: Teflon coating
Teflon was invented in the late 1920s to early 1930s, first
mass-produced for the US atomic bomb project in the early 1940s
(it's one of the precious few seal materials that can resist UF6),
and commercially used for coating cookware in the 1950s.
Teflon isn't a space spinoff.


The facility for our better
understanding of micro wave (ovens)
There were prototype microwave ovens in the mid-1930s, and Boot and
Randall demonstrated the first cavity magnetron in 1940. The first
commercial microwave ovens were marketed in 1947.
Microwave ovens aren't a space spinoff.

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Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut),
Golm, Germany, "Old Europe" http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html
"Space travel is utter bilge" -- common misquote of UK Astronomer Royal
Richard Woolley's remarks of 1956
"All this writing about space travel is utter bilge. To go to the
moon would cost as much as a major war." -- what he actually said

Hello Jonathan Thornburg,

Many thanks for your corrections, I found the facts interesting, but you
have taken me too literally. I wasn’t trying to suggest that the items I
mentioned where invented by the space industry, just that the space industry
has contributed to our better understanding of the physics of these products
and their evolution. That there is an invaluable, incalculable science
ripple down and perhaps up effect, a vertical drift. Space exploration
provides an excellent medium for some of the finest brains of humanity, the
opportunity to push out the boundaries of our knowledge, on
many subjects and their products. ‘Teflon’ is a product in a class of heat
resistant materials, micro wave ovens generate micro wave energy at a
frequency, I think, 2.54GHz, the resonance of water molecules. Both of these
physical
properties/understandings, are, I feel certain, make a
contribution and benefit from the space effort. In the same vain I should
also imagine that the now, ubiquitous, low cost digital cameras have
benefited from the development of CCDs for space applications. There is a
symbiotic relationship between space exploration and all our lives, just not
too many people realise it, perhaps they should. Though I also suspect that
I’m
preaching here to the already converted ;~) regards, Michael.


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Michael Butler wrote:
[[supposed spinoffs from space exploration]]

Teflon isn't a space spinoff.

Microwave ovens aren't a space spinoff.

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-- "Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply"

Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut),
Golm, Germany, "Old Europe" http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html
"Space travel is utter bilge" -- common misquote of UK Astronomer Royal
Richard Woolley's remarks of 1956
"All this writing about space travel is utter bilge. To go to the
moon would cost as much as a major war." -- what he actually said

Try the NASA website for SPINOFFS.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/tec...ffs_index.html

Here is another site with several links to NASA Spinoffs by year.

http://www.techbriefs.com/spinoff/

"LisaGF" wrote in message
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Try the NASA website for SPINOFFS.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/tec...ffs_index.html

Thanks for that LisaGF, I liked 'LiquidMetal', that's glass at room temp and
I presume, like glass or very, very slooow treacle, can be poured from a,
well a glass. If you can wait a few thousand years, that is ;~)