[ILS21R]

Again, not true

Again, it is true. I shouldn't have to do the legwork for lazy libs, but here:

"Smoke detectors were first developed and installed aboard the Skylab space station in the 1970s. This technology eventually reached the consumer market, and these devices are now standard household items."

Any idea how many lives smoke detectors have saved?

Read more: Space Inventions Used on Earth | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_7350873_space-inventions-used-earth.html#ixzz1ka5qM26I

Now go occupy something.

[from occupied ga]

Wow - smoke detectors and Tang AGAIN you assume that none of this stuff would have been developed without the space program. Just not true. If there is a consumer demand for it, then it will get developed. Government funding is the least effective way to get stuff done. Just look at the difference between the post office and UPS.