Hi, Björn Felten!
I read your message from 11.04.2019 22:16

  BF>     Without that huge bill, we would probably still barely be
  BF> having pocket calculators and still be having rotary dial
  BF> phones over copper wires.      All of the recent NASA
  BF> adventures are still totally awesome. You should be proud of
  BF> what your country has achieved rather than denying it!

IMHO is more correct to say - without an arm race "we would probably 
still barely... etc" ;-) If a new technic was made then - it was the 
rocket Saturn V and new materials to build it. Electronics had been 
developed without great connection with space flights. B-52 made for 
electronics more than Appolo 11. ;)

Bye, Björn!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.fidonews 2019

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