Top 10 Tech We Miss - #1 - Manned Space Exploration

[Mark Reiff <markreiff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI,

"Top 10 Tech We Miss"
CNet
http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6259955-1.html?tag=txt

: Technology evolves. Good technologies and products usually survive; poor ones
: usually go extinct. But not all of the technologies and tech products that have
: swirled down the drain of the tech gene pool deserved their fate. Here are some
: big, and some small, ideas that we thought we'd have with us forever, but that
: unfortunately have gone the way of the dodo.

: #1 Manned Space Exploration

: It's been 33 years since humans have set foot on the moon or journeyed beyond
: the close orbit of the Earth. In other words, we've stopped exploring. Sure,
: robotic spaceships and Mars rovers are adding to our knowledge of the universe,
: but the last people to explore the final frontier are past retirement age--and
: so are the engineers who put them there. In other words, next time we go into
: space, we're going to have to retrain people from scratch. There may be no
: firsthand knowledge of what it's like to be in space or to build a space
: vehicle. This is progress?

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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