DUBYA'S NOT JUST HOWLING AT THE MOON

New York Post ^ | 12/05/03 | BRIAN BLOMQUIST

[Moonman62]

Furthermore, because of the need to miniaturize the size of satellite technology, NASA, the US space agency, has developed computers much smaller than the large machinery originally in use. The new components paved the way for the development of small, portable computers and other small systems.

First of all, satellites are unmanned. Secondly, I believe it was Harris computers that did most of the mini-computer work for NASA. Harris has struggled. Intel is the representative company for microcomputers, which obviously has done extremely well. Their premise was that the computer could be put on a single chip based on Moore's law (computing power doubles every 18 months, whether we go to the moon or not).

[Moonman62]

The biotech industry went where the customers were. That doesn't mean that they didn't use the technology developed by NASA.

They went where the potential employees were, and that was near the research centers.

[Miss Marple]

POssibly. That still doesn't mean that they didn't use the space technology.

However, I would point out to you that biotechnology uses engineers as much as doctors, if not more. I believe few engineeers are employed at Scripps, and certainly not when the industry was in its infancy.