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Board Politics & Society
Re: The Space Industry: An example of why governments fail and freedom prevails.
by
compro01
on 25/07/2011, 21:58:37 UTC
Your point: That only Government can come up with new technology.

Patently false.

a great many things we use daily were invented at a government mandated basic science research institute, namely bell labs.  said labs now focus on "immediately marketable technologies", rather the basic science and material physics research they once did.

- the transistor
- the photovoltic cell
- the microwave radio relay
- the concept of the laser and several specific types of laser.
- the MOSFET transistor
- the CCD sensor
- the C programming language and UNIX
- fibre optics