[meteorite-list] OT - Technology Boom - was BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer

From: Greg Catterton <star_wars_collector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:03:41 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <817371.80890.qm_at_web46414.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

I often marvel at some of the things that came about and the massive boom in tech areas after Roswell.
Regardless of what anyone will say, I firmly think that we did get technology from the craft we recovered (yeah, we did recover it and it was no balloon.)
Why cover it up? Religion.

Hope everyone is doing good!


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--- On Mon, 11/29/10, Mark Ford <mark.ford at ssl.gb.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Ford <mark.ford at ssl.gb.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, November 29, 2010, 11:58 AM
>
> >>the NASA spin offs that many of us enjoy today
> including computers,
> >>velcrov, freeze dried foods and the list goes on in
> many ways I can't
> >>list have to also be taken into consideration.
>
>
> Except that Computers, Velcro and Freeze dried foods where
> NOT invented
> by Nasa for the space program!
>
>
> - The hook-and-loop fastener (Velcro) was invented in 1941
> by Swiss
> engineer, George de Mestral from Commugny, Switzerland
>
> - Computers where invented in the 1940's and already in
> widespread in
> academia BEFORE the Apollo era.
>
> - Freeze dried foods where used by the Inca's, and in
> Victorian England.
>
>
> The often misquoted Lunar program spin offs where not
> nearly as
> widespread as is often touted, granted there were many
> advances, but
> using the few spin off's as sole justification for
> multibillion dollar
> space programs is maybe stretching it..
>
> We should go back to the moon though for sure!
>
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com]
> On Behalf Of
> almitt2 at localnet.com
> Sent: 29 November 2010 08:21
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer
>
> Hi Richard and all,
>
> If one figures the cost of going to the moon the returned
> lunar
> material as the only benifit, then the cost of
> $44,537,594.97 would be
> correct. However there were many, many other benifits as
> well. All of
> the NASA spin offs that many of us enjoy today including
> computers,
> velcrov, freeze dried foods and the list goes on in many
> ways I can't
> list have to also be taken into consideration.
>
> There are thousands of things that mankind has benifited
> from the space
> program.
> I would suggest that the cost of the lunar material coming
> from the
> moon to be only one of those benifits and the cost of the
> lunar
> material to be in the $50,000 to $200,000 per gram range. I
> have no
> effective way to figure exactly but my guess non the less.
>
> Most respectfully
>
> --AL Mitterling
>
>
> Quoting Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com>:
>
> > Below was my response to Shawn.
> >
> > Richard Kowalski
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> > Pretty easy one Shawn, but I'm not sure it'll be the
> one you are
> > thinking of, and I'm sure I won't be the 10th
> "correct" submission...
> >
> > Hadley Rille
> >
> > The Apollo missions cost, in 2005 dollars, ~170
> Billion dollars.
> > Returning with a total of 381.7 kg of material, thus
> each gram costs
> > a whopping $44,537,594.97, so this is the cost, per
> gram of Hadley
> > Rille, 5 years ago. The price has increased since
> then...
> >
> > Since Hadley Rille was an estimated in weight at 3
> milligrams, the
> > total cost of the entire meteorite was, again in 2005
> dollars,
> > $133,612.77
> >
> >
>
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