[tbpiper]

My 'partial response' was actually a 'short' response, having been pared down for lower capacity comprehensions. As far as 'armchair Capitan Kirks', said capitan was only an actor,whereas Neil Armstrong, for instance, was actually in space! Unless, of course you buy into the story that the whole thing was staged on a movie set. But I don't even think you're that stupid.

Not knowing of you understand the concept of 'forcing function', I'll give you a couple of examples:
WWI & WWII were forcing functions for advances in medicine and aviation. We would not have the petroleum industry today, had Henry's Ford not been so popular.

The manned space program was a forcing function for the technologies needed to make it work. The computer was not invented by the space program, but its development was heavily pushed by the need for greater computing power. I'm sure a true conservative will grasp the entrepenurial picture.

NASA has a technology utilization program. There are many processes and patents essentially 'free for the taking' to someone enterprising enough to develop a business from them. That is just one way we can reap the benefits of billions of 'foolishly spent' dollars. You really ought to keep up with things.

[newgeezer]

Once again, you have said in so many words that you were just blowing smoke in that previous post when you said we "would not have" computers if it weren't for the space program. In case you couldn't tell, I comprehended that just fine.

As for the rest of your blather,