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.
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.
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