After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded
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@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
But we need our Memory Foam and a few other expensive inventions . Ugh
NASA didn't invent that, though. NASA paid for it, but a private firm that does actual research invented it. That kind of stuff I'm okay with, but we can do all of that without NASA wasting resources in the middle.
Howstuffworks states its a NASA invention.
Wikipedia says that it was a NASA Ames contractor that did it.
Based on a couple other things I just read, it looks like NASA had the idea and then farmed it out. Either way, still used NASA dollars.
$50 billion for memory foam... Yay
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@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
But we need our Memory Foam and a few other expensive inventions . Ugh
NASA didn't invent that, though. NASA paid for it, but a private firm that does actual research invented it. That kind of stuff I'm okay with, but we can do all of that without NASA wasting resources in the middle.
Howstuffworks states its a NASA invention.
Wikipedia says that it was a NASA Ames contractor that did it.
Based on a couple other things I just read, it looks like NASA had the idea and then farmed it out. Either way, still used NASA dollars.
NASA dollars is just another way to say "US tax dollars". If NASA doesn't do the work themselves, they didn't do it.
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@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
But we need our Memory Foam and a few other expensive inventions . Ugh
NASA didn't invent that, though. NASA paid for it, but a private firm that does actual research invented it. That kind of stuff I'm okay with, but we can do all of that without NASA wasting resources in the middle.
Howstuffworks states its a NASA invention.
Wikipedia says that it was a NASA Ames contractor that did it.
Oh wait, maybe I assumed something in the wording that was wrong. Maybe they didn't mean a contract firm, but a person that was contracting.
Either way. It still came from the public's pocket.
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@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
But we need our Memory Foam and a few other expensive inventions . Ugh
NASA didn't invent that, though. NASA paid for it, but a private firm that does actual research invented it. That kind of stuff I'm okay with, but we can do all of that without NASA wasting resources in the middle.
Howstuffworks states its a NASA invention.
Wikipedia says that it was a NASA Ames contractor that did it.
Oh wait, maybe I assumed something in the wording that was wrong. Maybe they didn't mean a contract firm, but a person that was contracting.
Either way. It still came from the public's pocket.
But if it came from NASA - at least you could say they made something.
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@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
But we need our Memory Foam and a few other expensive inventions . Ugh
NASA didn't invent that, though. NASA paid for it, but a private firm that does actual research invented it. That kind of stuff I'm okay with, but we can do all of that without NASA wasting resources in the middle.
Howstuffworks states its a NASA invention.
Wikipedia says that it was a NASA Ames contractor that did it.
Oh wait, maybe I assumed something in the wording that was wrong. Maybe they didn't mean a contract firm, but a person that was contracting.
Either way. It still came from the public's pocket.
Right, it's US taxpayers who paid for it. So to say that the "US taxpayers developed memory foam" would be one thing. NASA was just one of several middle men in the process.
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@Dashrender said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
But we need our Memory Foam and a few other expensive inventions . Ugh
NASA didn't invent that, though. NASA paid for it, but a private firm that does actual research invented it. That kind of stuff I'm okay with, but we can do all of that without NASA wasting resources in the middle.
Howstuffworks states its a NASA invention.
Wikipedia says that it was a NASA Ames contractor that did it.
Oh wait, maybe I assumed something in the wording that was wrong. Maybe they didn't mean a contract firm, but a person that was contracting.
Either way. It still came from the public's pocket.
But if it came from NASA - at least you could say they made something.
No, it did not. It came from Stencel Aero Engineering Corp.
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Stencel Aero Engineering Corp was the company that developed memory foam using US taxpayer money that was financially managed by NASA, NASA was just an accounting firm in the middle of this process.
When the government was no longer interested in memory foam, Dynamic Systems was incorporated by Charles Yost, the Stencel Aero Engineering Corp engineer who was in charge of developing memory foam, and he continued to develop it under the new company.
NASA was involved in the same manner that the president or H&R Block were involved... just part of the money handling in the middle.
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@Dashrender said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@scottalanmiller said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
@pmoncho said in After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded:
But we need our Memory Foam and a few other expensive inventions . Ugh
NASA didn't invent that, though. NASA paid for it, but a private firm that does actual research invented it. That kind of stuff I'm okay with, but we can do all of that without NASA wasting resources in the middle.
Howstuffworks states its a NASA invention.
Wikipedia says that it was a NASA Ames contractor that did it.
Oh wait, maybe I assumed something in the wording that was wrong. Maybe they didn't mean a contract firm, but a person that was contracting.
Either way. It still came from the public's pocket.
But if it came from NASA - at least you could say they made something.
True... Well, our government has made a lot of something. It's called dependency!
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To make things worse, NASA hid the fact that it was made by someone other than NASA until 1973 (it was developed by Stencel in 1966 and taken to Dynamic in 1967.)
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In 1974, the formula was sold to Beckton-Dickinson to make football helmet linings. But we don't claim that the technology was developed by football players.
