[tbpiper]

..enlighten all us poor white trash types as to just how the billions spent on the manned space program are responsible...

It was a forcing function.

[newgeezer]

Your partial response would seem to imply that you were just blowing smoke with your previous statement, "If it weren't for the 'foolishly spent billions' of the manned space program, you would not now have the computer on which you bitch."

If so, thanks for admitting it. Aside from the occasional and/or accidental by-product, NASA's manned space program amounts to precious little more than publicly-funded, pork-barrel joyrides for a lot of so-called "conservative," armchair Captain Kirks.

But, if not, let's have those facts about how and why NASA's billions spent on manned space missions was the only way to get our bitchin' PCs.