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space research since 1960 has brought about a very large number of spinoffs to medicine, including remote sensing of bodily functions, minaturiza
tion of equipment, etc. 'Star Trek' came from Rodenberry
's fascinatio
n with space; people are busy developing medical tricoders and the diagnostic bed. vaccines and more can be more efficientl
y produced away from gravity.
NASA maintains a spinoff site at
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/ . the database is located at
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/spinoff/database . you can enter almost anything into search fields and get a lits of spinoffs that affect you, your family, your town or the nation. almost anything from a new efficient bicycle wheel to meals for the elderly to patient care's listed, from the 70's to now.
Robert Heinlein's congressio
nal testimony years back, from personal experience
, described a LOT of medical spinoffs about 30 years ago, including bypasses and fiber optics. it's available in his omnibus 'Expanded Universe'.
i could go on and on and on. one medium-siz
ed nickel-iro
n asteroid could contain more pure iron that all of that ever found or used in human history. others contain the elements of life (CHON) and could be synthesize
d for foods. more resources=
more wealth=bet
ter economy=be
tter standards of living and more. we're moving into a worldwide fresh water crisis; climate's getting warmer and warmer, killing off plants and animals. space exploratio
n and research could help us manage it. there's a billion people in poverty; space exploratio
n and research could help.
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