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[NEWS] nasa eyes urstar fish for missions in 2030s
thegoodperry:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 18, 2017, 03:36:14 PM ---That's the thing you're missing here. These technologies sprout as a byproduct of sending probes to do scientific research. If you aren't sending probes to do scientific research, then you aren't getting spin-off technologies. It's not a waste.
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So 3d printed food was a space anomaly that a probe discovered on some distant planet?
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: thegoodperry on June 18, 2017, 03:16:26 PM ---WW2 brought several new technologies, including nuclear power and aircraft technology, but that doesn't mean that the war was a good thing.
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haha yeah what did the national socialists ever do
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: thegoodperry on June 18, 2017, 03:51:27 PM ---So 3d printed food was a space anomaly that a probe discovered on some distant planet?
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No but all the software, components, instrumentation, and manufacturing techniques were a result of making a probe. Those patents translate into billion dollar industries fam
thegoodperry:
but why don't we just skip the 'making of the probe' part and focus on what matters, which is the software, components, instrumentation, and manufacturing techniques
this way you can invest in technologies without spending billions on rocket fuel and building a whole probe
Deus Ex:
--- Quote from: thegoodperry on June 18, 2017, 04:29:01 PM ---but why don't we just skip the 'making of the probe' part and focus on what matters, which is the software, components, instrumentation, and manufacturing techniques
this way you can invest in technologies without spending billions on rocket fuel and building a whole probe
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How would you advance technologies without finding out what breaks when you send it into space