Don't forget medical technology. My premature son born in 1992 was surrounded all sorts of machines that went buzz-click and all had 'NASA' plastered all over them...monitors, oxygen saturation readers...a whole whack and I am eternally grateful. He studies History/Music/Education at the University of Toronto now.
Dan
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Daily <pocotron@...> wrote:
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>  I was there for the Apollo 15 launch. Filmed it in shaky Super-8!
>  We owe some of our digital audio technology to the space program. I read that the messages to/from the moon were done using 4-bit digital audio. With the low power transmitters they used on the moon, it was the only method that would work. I don't know about the video technology they used.
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> --- On Tue, 12/21/10, Bob Snyder <bob.snyder@...> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Speaking of the moon.....total lunar eclipse Dec 20 / 21
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 9:19 PM
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> We only "faked" it six times: 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17.
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> Apparently 25% of American youth less than 30 y/o firmly believe it was all a hoaxâ¦.
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