Monday, August 13, 2012

Site Poses Question: What the F@!# has NASA Done For Us? Then Answers.

The site WTF NASA, is quite interesting.
Along the top of the site, the question "What the fuck has NASA done to make your life awesome?" is asked. 
It's a question many have asked in the past, and to this day, if not in that exact wording. 
But unlike most people, this site has actual answers. And a lot of them. 
In fact, each time you visit the site, a new thing they've done is shown. 
Below are just a couple:
  • Created technology for consumer panoramaic photographic stitching software
  • Provides innovative video stabilization software that's been used at the Olympics, in law enforcement, and commercially
  • Increased flight safety through weather and climate prediction
  • Built the first inflatable antennas to support emergency communication
  • Cooling vest worn by factory workers (and astronauts) in hot temperatures
  • Developed software that can calculate measurements from photographs
  • Created high capacity, clean energy batteries
  • Scratch-resistant eyeglass lenses
  • Applied Hubble space telescope image process technique to detect breast cancer
  • Made advanced weather predicting possible with satellites
  • Gave you satellite television
  • Simplified kidney dialysis
  • 'Invisible' braces
  • Made your food last longer
  • Inspired the design for your Speedo bathing suit
There are many others available on the site, and the list is growing.
At the bottom of the site, in a section labeled "Whoa, really?" that explains each point in detail. 
When you look at it, it's amazing all that NASA has done, you know, besides putting a one ton car on Mars. 

You can visit the site here, or a version without all the "F's" here

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