I kid you not! I just checked my
sitemeter for this journal and I saw THIS:
w00t w00t! That is just sooooo friggin' cool, man! I feel like a celebrity now! :-D
I LOOOOOOOOOOVE YOU, NASA!! MUAH!! You know, we should really do lunch someday! *wink* Especially if you look anything like
Joshua Jackson in
Fringe. :-) Om nom nom! I'll also take
David Duchovny in
The X-Files. teehee (Hey! I have a weakness for sexy geeks!
The Big Bang Theory is my favorite show! Geeks who look like
Napoleon Dynamite or
Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons tho? Yeah, not so much. LOL)
Seriously though, I grew up wanting to work for NASA someday (or the FBI and/or CIA, erm...as long as it didn't require me to take a bullet or anything. LOL) but I never had the slightest clue how to apply. :-( I didn't necessarily want to
go into space, but I wanted to be apart of it somehow.
NASA doesn't only focus on space, it has contributed to a LOT of the cool inventions we use to benefit our daily lives!
From
About.com:
Every day, in a variety of ways, American lives are touched by space technology. Since 1976, about 1,400 documented NASA inventions have benefited U.S. industry, improved the quality of life and created jobs for Americans. The Apollo program has helped change the way of life in America, especially in health care.
Here are
10 NASA Inventions you might use every day:
- Water Filters
- Cordless Tools--Can't live without your cordless drill? Thank, NASA. NASA also invented bluetooth.
- Safety Grooving--Keeps us safe on the roads and in the air!
- Adjustable Smoke Detector
- Long-Distance Telecommunications--Hello, cell phones, video phones and satellite TV!
- Shoe Insoles
- Ear Thermometers
- Memory Foam--Soooooooooo comfy!
- Scratch-Resistant Lenses--A Godsend for anyone that wears glasses!
- Invisible Braces--How many painful childhood memories have been averted by these??
Wow! How amazing is that? I'm sure we owe our flatscreens and iPhones to NASA too. I can totally see them developing touch screens for use on space shuttles, can't you?
So here's a great big fat THANK YOU to all the fine men and women at NASA for all the hard work they do on behalf of humanity:
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Hopefully we'll get to this point someday! :-)
xoxo
Miss ♥ Mia