The President's Space Initiative Speech

Tom

I've still got my Abacus and 'Slip Stick', Log Log Decitrig (sp), that
I can use when the energy runs out and we go back to the caves and
bear skins. Still have the instruction book to refresh operations. G

I take out every few years and run the slide to keep smooth for
precision operation.

Big John
Pilot RNAF


On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:51:56 -0700, "Tom Sixkiller"
wrote:


"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
In article . net,
"Mike Rapoport" wrote:


No, you have it backwards. The Apollo program happened when all
the
technologies were in place. It USED technology, same with the
space
shuttle.
[snip]
OK I'll accept that a lot was developed by the Apollo program but this
is
not what I think of when I think of NEW technology.

I think it comes down to what each of us understands "all
the technology were in place" to mean. I took it to be
roughly equivalent to the technology being mature. I gather
you meant something between that and brandnew stuff.

A little trivia (from the depths of memory): The on-board computers in
Apollo were obsolete by the time they flew the missions, and 2) the Space
Shuttle was designed and built using the old slab-sides sliderules.

"Big John" wrote in message
...
I've still got my Abacus and 'Slip Stick', Log Log Decitrig (sp), that
I can use when the energy runs out and we go back to the caves and
bear skins. Still have the instruction book to refresh operations. G

I take out every few years and run the slide to keep smooth for
precision operation.

Kids. Bah humbug. I have one of those fancy new fangled slip-sticks, too.
I'm trying to find some Napier's bones and an abacus however.

"William W. Plummer" wrote:

I'm trying to find some Napier's bones and an abacus however.

It's not very hard to find an abacus in this neck of the woods. My wife uses one
to keep track of stiches on complex knitting patterns.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."