- Polycrystalline Alumina (TPA) was developed to protect the infrared antennae of heat-seeking missile trackers. We now use it for invisible braces like the ones Tom Cruise is wearing.
- Polyurethane-Silicon Plastic was created for use in NASA aircraft seats to lessen impact during landings. This same compression foam is now in football helmets and is partly responsible for making us have to put up with Brett Favre for so long..
- Infrared digital thermometers not only assist NASA scientists in assessing the energy in machine components, but hypochondriacs can take the temperature in their ear in under 2 seconds over and over again.
- Scratch Resistant Plastic Coating protects astronauts' visors. However they also keep Paris Hilton's giant sunglasses scratch free.
- Satellite communication was necessary to stay connected to all the space vehicles outside the atmosphere. Now your kids can communicate entirely through texting without your knowledge.
- Ionization Detectors were put in place in Skylab to let astronauts know if noxious gasses were present. That same technology in today's smoke detectors require you to stand on a chair waking a dish cloth at the ceiling every time you make toast.
Velcro was a godsend to astronauts who needed to keep things from floating around in a weightless environment. Male strippers can utilize the same advance to quickly get out of their policeman, fireman or lumberjack outfits.
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Your pics today are a sausage-fest. Two dudes and a chick. C'mon, Trooper. We expect better.
Good list though. I think it is totally worth spending millions of taxpayer dollars so we can have clear braces :)
Given the opportunity and slight inebriation, I would gladly put a bullet through the right lense of Paris Hilton's, circa Elton John before he came out, scratch resistant sunglasses ending her scourge upon this earth and giving back some of the world's oxygen for more important endeavors than running people over and spending daddy's money.
I'm an easy gong guy with much love for most, but that girl is a total waste of space, if she had a single original thought it was perish from loneliness.
I feel better already.
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