What's Nasa's real contribution?
By Peter Cochrane, 1 November 2007 12:48
In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane reports from Florida where he has been visiting Nasa's Merritt Island space centre. The media may be hung up on non-stick frying pans but Nasa's contribution to technology is massive and goes far beyond its materials programme.
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1. Dr Mark Hosey
Nasa, though probably the biggest, is not the only establishment to make huge but largely unrecognised contributions to our society. The general public, who take for granted all the benefits bestowed upon them by the scientific and engineering community, are terrifically ignorant of the technology that provides them with the life of relative ease they enjoy. I became aware of it many years ago when as a student I was asked by a very well educated arts friend “What use is science” and again when looking for employment through a technical job agency “Physics? That’s something to do with chemicals, isn’t it?”
I’m not surprised that fewer kids want to be engineers or scientists. They see no future in science and engineering because they are not shown one by the media, one of the biggest influences on all our lives. It’s more interested in making money by any cheap underhanded trick it get away with than in providing stimulating and informative articles and programming.
Government, made up largely of people from non-technical backgrounds, must also take some of the blame for allowing the present state of affairs.
And industry too, which is currently telling us all that technical skills come secondary to other business orientated skills.
Hopefully things will sort themselves out and organisations like Nasa, Cern, etc can continue to be supplied with that most important resource of all. Brains with good ideas and technical skills capable of creating the stuff others (unfairly) get rich on.
2. anonymous
Are these Video blogs here to stay?
It is a great shame as I always enjoyed reading your blogs during lunchtime in the office but, unfortunately, audio version is a no no.
Are you planning to transcribe them at all? If you do that already - could you advise the link please.