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Speaker 1: welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette. I'm
Speaker 1: an editor here at how stuff works dot com, and
Speaker 1: as usual, I have sitting next to me senior writer
Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. Ola, Amigo, I'm wondering when you're gonna run
Speaker 1: out of countries. Uh, there are many of them. He
Speaker 1: watched Anomaniacs. You would know the names of all of them. Actually,
Speaker 1: I have that c anyway speaking, and you can see
Speaker 1: all these countries if you are looking at the Earth
Speaker 1: from space No. Nine. That was that was a quickly
Speaker 1: manufactured So yeah, we're gonna talk today about uh inventions
Speaker 1: that we can we can attribute to our wonderful space
Speaker 1: race and space exploration programs. This actually as an idea
Speaker 1: that we got from an email we received. So I'll
Speaker 1: let me let me start off by reading the email. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is from Justin in Chicago. I know how
Speaker 1: you love to receive haikus from fans. Oh wait, wrong podcast.
Speaker 1: I've always wondered whether people knew what they were talking
Speaker 1: about when they credited NASA with the invention of certain
Speaker 1: technologies velcro, m r eyes, and that delicious dehydrated ice cream,
Speaker 1: to name a few. Is the alleged government origin for
Speaker 1: dozens upon dozens of everyday products just a public exaggeration
Speaker 1: or misconception Which of these are actual NASA technologies. I'm
Speaker 1: too lazy lazy to research it myself, so I'd like
Speaker 1: to hear you guys talk about it for fifteen or
Speaker 1: twenty minutes instead. You got it justin excellent. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: first of all, um, well let's go ahead and and
Speaker 1: uh and crush velcrow, Well, crunchy noise. So Velcrow is
Speaker 1: not a NASA invention. It was a Swiss invention dating
Speaker 1: back to the nineteen forties. Yeah, that's much older than NASA, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: NASA was not around in the nineteen fourties. No, they were,
Speaker 1: say space was actually out there in I think I
Speaker 1: think space first appeared on the scene somewhere right around
Speaker 1: six o three. Um, please don't write me. I know
Speaker 1: I'm making that up. The so so yeah, dated back
Speaker 1: from the nineteen Fouries is a Swiss invention. Now, NASA
Speaker 1: did use velcro in the Apollo missions. Um, and that
Speaker 1: kind of made velcro more famous, So that might be
Speaker 1: where people got the idea that NASA invented it. They
Speaker 1: did not. Um. Also, let's go ahead and get the
Speaker 1: other two big ones out of the way. They did
Speaker 1: not invent teflon, and they did not invent tang as
Speaker 1: the powdered sweet sweet drink. No. According to the end
Speaker 1: the NASA website, Tang predates the Space missions by a
Speaker 1: few years. However, astronauts do find it yummy, yes, and
Speaker 1: NASA did use it in various kind of promotional materials,
Speaker 1: So that'd be where you'd get that idea from. Too. Well,
Speaker 1: there are lots of things like that that uh you know,
Speaker 1: I mean vell Crow, NASA loves ll grow. It's it's
Speaker 1: great environment, very useful stuff, and I'm thinking that's probably why,
Speaker 1: you know, and Tang was still fairly new when the
Speaker 1: astronauts were going up in the space, so you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense that public perception might have
Speaker 1: been that NASA picked those up and they amended him, right.
Speaker 1: I briefly debated on arguing that UM that Nicholas the
Speaker 1: second Infinite Oval Team, but then I realized that that
Speaker 1: would spreading misinformation is not what we do here, just
Speaker 1: going to get more emails. So he did not, to
Speaker 1: my knowledge anyway, I just made that up. So if
Speaker 1: it's is true, I was totally by chance. Moving on
Speaker 1: to the actual inventions that NASA is responsible for, there
Speaker 1: are many of them. Justin he asked us if there
Speaker 1: were some if if if that was just kind of
Speaker 1: a misconception. No, it's not a misconception. There are plenty
Speaker 1: of inventions out there that we can credit NASA for
Speaker 1: bringing to life. And we have an article on the
Speaker 1: site called ten NASA inventions you might use every day,
Speaker 1: written by our colleague Kristen Conger, who is an excellent
Speaker 1: writer here at how stuff Works dot com and UM.
Speaker 1: She mentions that NASA has filed more than sixty three
Speaker 1: D patents with the US government. Uh, and not all
Speaker 1: of those are specifically for things that can only apply
Speaker 1: to space exploration or or space you know, uh missions.
Speaker 1: Many of those things that that NASA has filed patents
Speaker 1: for we now use in uh in everyday applications. Should
Speaker 1: I should I mention one? I it sounded like you
Speaker 1: had one on the top of your head. Well, the
Speaker 1: very first one, she mean gins I guess I can
Speaker 1: kind of go in descending order. We're not going to
Speaker 1: mention all of the ones in the article because there's
Speaker 1: some she doesn't mention that I like. Yeah, there's quite
Speaker 1: a few that we wanted to talk about and we
Speaker 1: didn't want to just you know, regurgitate the article. But
Speaker 1: the first one she mentions, um, would be invisible braces.
Speaker 1: I never had them. However, if I had, you'd never
Speaker 1: have known it, right. Uh. They're made from translucent poly
Speaker 1: crystalline alumina t p A and uh. The reason why
Speaker 1: we can credit NASA for this is that they were
Speaker 1: using this material to protect infrared antenna of heat seeking
Speaker 1: missile trackers. Yeah, but it turns out that there was
Speaker 1: another company called Unitech that was working on a new
Speaker 1: kind of design for braces, and so you take the
Speaker 1: material created by NASA essentially, but Sara Dyne was the
Speaker 1: company that really developed it, but NASA was behind the
Speaker 1: whole research stage. And then you take Unitech that's making
Speaker 1: this brace the um this new form of braces, and
Speaker 1: you apply the material to the design and you come
Speaker 1: up with invisible braces. Wow. Yeah, So thank you NASA
Speaker 1: for straightening out some teeth. And you know they can
Speaker 1: chew on some missiles. Um. I guess I wasn't done
Speaker 1: being goofy. You know my favorite on that list? What's
Speaker 1: that memory foam? Memory foam? That some good stuff. Man.
Speaker 1: If you've ever put your hand on a memory foam
Speaker 1: mattress and watched your fingerprints stay there after you pulled
Speaker 1: your hand away, thank an astronaut or probably a NASA researcher. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The whole temper pedic mattresses, that all comes from the
Speaker 1: whole NASA research. Yeah. I'd like to be on one
Speaker 1: right now. Me too. I was just thinking that. I'm like,
Speaker 1: why did you go with that? Yeah, I'm sorry, I've
Speaker 1: been thinking. This is the end of a very long day. People.
Speaker 1: We have recorded two other podcasts today. I hate to
Speaker 1: break the veil here, but uh yeah, So the idea
Speaker 1: of laying down on foam that develops you and comforts
Speaker 1: you since really really nice. We need a we need
Speaker 1: a house. Stuff works dot come like nap room anyway, right,
Speaker 1: making a note, Ok, moving on, so yes, yes, the
Speaker 1: memory foam that also comes from NASA research. Um oh
Speaker 1: she Kristen also mentions shoe in souls, which we can
Speaker 1: thank Moon Boots for. Yeah, we're talking about like the
Speaker 1: insoles and shoes that are used to help your you know,
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of a boost with athletic
Speaker 1: shoes and and make it breathable and comfortable like a
Speaker 1: felon like Magellan. We should get paid for by them,
Speaker 1: I mean we don't anyway. So again we're talking about
Speaker 1: you know, it seems kind of silly that you're thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: just chee in souls, but no, seriously, there's this. The
Speaker 1: technology for these cushy shoe and soules that give you
Speaker 1: a lot more support came out of NASA research. Well, honestly,
Speaker 1: if you if you think about some of the other stuff,
Speaker 1: like invisible braces, well we could use visible braces, but
Speaker 1: it does add something and adds a quality of life
Speaker 1: and not everything is um you know, it has to
Speaker 1: be some kind of groundbreaking new science, you know, for
Speaker 1: it to be useful and functional for us. So it's
Speaker 1: you know, these are good things. Now, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of things that are different between Chris and yours, truly,
Speaker 1: you know, there are a lot of things that you know,
Speaker 1: we don't. There are a lot of things that we
Speaker 1: we feel very differently about. But um, we also share
Speaker 1: a few similarities. One of those that we both wear
Speaker 1: spectacles glasses. Do you have scratch resistant lenses? Um? I
Speaker 1: certainly hope so, because my youngest daughter likes to grab
Speaker 1: them and rip them off my face and try to
Speaker 1: eat them nice. Um, they have not scratched yet. My
Speaker 1: jackerosal terriers like to do the same thing. Perhaps they
Speaker 1: all get together while we're at work and plot things
Speaker 1: to do to us. But yes, scratch resistant lenses, that's
Speaker 1: another thing we can thank NASA for now. NASA the
Speaker 1: reason they developed this material the special coding to help
Speaker 1: protect equipment and face because I mean it's very sensitive equipment. Uh,
Speaker 1: and there are particles out in space that are floating
Speaker 1: around and you could come into contact with it, and
Speaker 1: you definitely don't want something scratching up your your equipment
Speaker 1: while you're out in space, especially if it's going to
Speaker 1: end up, you know, endangering the people on the mission,
Speaker 1: much less endangering multibillion dollar equipment that's up there. So
Speaker 1: this material they've created, the special coding they you know,
Speaker 1: scientists adapted it to create the scratch resistant coding they
Speaker 1: put on lenses. So if you have glasses that have
Speaker 1: this coating on them, you can thank NASA for it. Definitely,
Speaker 1: thank you, NASA, Thank you very much. Otherwise I couldn't see.
Speaker 1: So do you want to diverge from the well, I
Speaker 1: think I have one. I think I have to tell
Speaker 1: me which one is you like? So the other one
Speaker 1: I was thinking about talking about long distance telecommunications, that's
Speaker 1: a gimme. Yeah, And the satellite dish was when I
Speaker 1: was going to bring up. But they're they're sort of
Speaker 1: intertwined because they use satellite technology to communicate, right, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the you know, the NASA had to
Speaker 1: create telecommunication devices that would be able to span enormous distances.
Speaker 1: Because you're talking about trying to maintain contact with people
Speaker 1: in outer space. It's hard to get further away than that. Yes,
Speaker 1: otherwise Tom Hanks would be stranded in space right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then we would have been spared that horrible haircut
Speaker 1: from the what was it the Da Vinci Code. But
Speaker 1: anyone don't know whether to thank them or curse them.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping him in mind. Of course that was a movie,
Speaker 1: right exactly. Of course, again, they would have been in
Speaker 1: bad shape if they hadn't been able to communicate with Houston,
Speaker 1: and we're very thankful that they were. But yes, the
Speaker 1: same technology that they developed in order to communicate with
Speaker 1: astronauts was then of course used to for you know,
Speaker 1: broadcast technology, for telecommunications technology, uh, you know, with out
Speaker 1: Without NASA, I'm sure we would have gone down those
Speaker 1: roads eventually anyway, but probably not with the same kind
Speaker 1: of alacrity that we did thanks to NASA. With the alacrity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like a lot of throw that in there. And
Speaker 1: the other one that I thought I mentioned from the article,
Speaker 1: uh was water filters. Yeah, which again you're talking about
Speaker 1: if you're gonna send people out up in space, you
Speaker 1: may need a way to filter some water so that
Speaker 1: they can have something to drink or something else that
Speaker 1: you have to filter some sort of liquid so that
Speaker 1: you would have drinkable water. It doesn't take a whiz
Speaker 1: to know what we're talking about. So um so again
Speaker 1: water filters, the same sort of water filters we use
Speaker 1: for our tap water. We can thank NASA for creating
Speaker 1: that kind of technology, and I thank them for that
Speaker 1: horrible joke. You can blame them for it if you like.
Speaker 1: All Right, So now we can go and talk about
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that is not on the in
Speaker 1: the actual article, and then there are more on in
Speaker 1: the article if you want check it out. Yeah, speaking
Speaker 1: of lenses, they helped invent some sunglass technology that works
Speaker 1: with polarization and keeping out frequencies of light that may
Speaker 1: be harmful to your eyes. Well, that makes sense because
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you're out in space. You don't
Speaker 1: have that kind of you don't have the benefit of
Speaker 1: the Earth's atmosphere to to filter that out. That's true,
Speaker 1: and from what i've from what I read, it was
Speaker 1: also because they were working on welding and the incredibly
Speaker 1: bright light from you know, certain kinds of welding can
Speaker 1: do serious damage to your eyes, and they needed an
Speaker 1: inability to you know, protect the eyes of the astronauts.
Speaker 1: But with the blast shield down, I can't see anything.
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to be able to fight? Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna have to pick another one. Huh um,
Speaker 1: thermal gloves and boots. Oh yeah, okay. I mean it's
Speaker 1: cold in space, very cold, very cold in space, thank you,
Speaker 1: con So you know they the astronauts need protection. I
Speaker 1: didn't mean to do that, I swear, um, but that
Speaker 1: trains slates. You know. It's also very cold in certain
Speaker 1: parts of the Earth, and you know, applying that technology
Speaker 1: white weight technology and not so much a matter in space,
Speaker 1: but when you're you know, dressed in that stuff to
Speaker 1: get into the cockpit before you blast off, it's kind
Speaker 1: of heavy. Those early space suits were pretty gargagein yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, they were not smelled no, but you know,
Speaker 1: as a result, we have lighter and thinner uh and
Speaker 1: warmer fibers. And on a similar note, uh, we've had
Speaker 1: the same sort of material coming handy for things like
Speaker 1: a firefighting equipment. So we're talking about like the suits
Speaker 1: that that firefighters wear, that our fire resistant fabrics, I
Speaker 1: mean the a lot of that fabric was originally developed
Speaker 1: um to be used in space suits, which have to
Speaker 1: not just be able to withstand intense uh well the
Speaker 1: intense heat and intense cold. So um. Yeah again, NASA
Speaker 1: came up with the technology and that's that's on the
Speaker 1: ways we use it today. Um. Apparently they're also responsible
Speaker 1: in in some way for redundant flashlight technology. UM. Well,
Speaker 1: you think about it. You may need a flashlight and
Speaker 1: then you might need another one. The thing is, uh,
Speaker 1: if you have one of those flashlights that is supposed
Speaker 1: to be have multiple sources of power in case, uh
Speaker 1: the electricity goes out in one of the batteries isn't charged,
Speaker 1: or you're in a fire, um, and you need a flashlight. Well,
Speaker 1: they you know, one of the projects that came out
Speaker 1: of NASA was you know, the multiple backup power systems
Speaker 1: for flashlights built in, which is again not exactly glamorous,
Speaker 1: but very useful. Nice And of course you know justin
Speaker 1: mentioned MR eyes which the m R e s and
Speaker 1: cat scans we can we can trace that back to NASA.
Speaker 1: Do you have information on those? That was one of
Speaker 1: the ones that I read may have been amiss. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: I have heard they have done work with medical um
Speaker 1: imaging technology and I think that's part of it too.
Speaker 1: But because uh, there's a NASA website that goes into
Speaker 1: all the different things, and the thing is, I think
Speaker 1: what happens is uh NASA says, oh my gosh, that's brilliant.
Speaker 1: We absolutely need this in the space program. And it
Speaker 1: gets so well known and so associated with the space
Speaker 1: program that people assume that, you know, well, those geniuses
Speaker 1: and NASA, I've done it again, when in fact it's
Speaker 1: genius that NASA is working with. Sure, sure you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think yeah. And in that case, I
Speaker 1: think they were using that technology in order to to
Speaker 1: look for vulnerabilities within the various UH equipment they were
Speaker 1: using to make sure there weren't any cracks or anything
Speaker 1: like that. And you absolutely need to check the integrity
Speaker 1: of your equipment if you're going out in the space,
Speaker 1: as we have all found out unfortunately. Um, do you
Speaker 1: have another one? I have a favorite one, don't you know?
Speaker 1: If I should go ahead and drop your favorite on? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm looking through my list space pens. The space pen
Speaker 1: is awesome. I know, I know. It's the space pen
Speaker 1: for the uninitiative and initiated uninitiated. There we go. Um
Speaker 1: is a pressurized ballpoint pen. He may be saying, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really exciting there dude, Well, no, okay, it's not.
Speaker 1: But you can write in all kinds of different environments
Speaker 1: using the space pen. And it's very handy if you
Speaker 1: have one and only one pen to use, and keeping
Speaker 1: in mind, this is not the kind of environment where
Speaker 1: you're going to take your favorite fountain pen and have
Speaker 1: little drops of ink floating all over the capsule. So well,
Speaker 1: you would do it just for fun. Uh you know, anyway,
Speaker 1: other other ballpoint pens wouldn't write in space a fountain
Speaker 1: pen again, blobs of ink. So what do you do?
Speaker 1: You pressurize a ballpoint pen and you can still buy it.
Speaker 1: It's it's very widely available. You can get it from
Speaker 1: pen companies. You can't even get it from office supply stores.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more expensive than a regular pen,
Speaker 1: but you know, it can rune in virtually any environment.
Speaker 1: So kind of nice that and I like pens. How
Speaker 1: about joysticks? Oh yeah, you're gonna you're gonna argue with
Speaker 1: me with joysticks. Well, you know what do they used
Speaker 1: to fly those planes before NASA? Yeah? I saw that too.
Speaker 1: I saw that on a NASA website. Going, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: that that seems well, it says a little different. I
Speaker 1: mean the joy sticks they're talking about are probably are
Speaker 1: more along the lines of the ones they're using for UM. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's almost the multi button video game style. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're talking about you know, that's the same sort of
Speaker 1: stuff that you see in video games now. Really kind
Speaker 1: of Trent goes back to the NASA uses for various vehicles. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, you think about it. When you're in these
Speaker 1: space suits. Uh, you've got very limited mobility, so you
Speaker 1: have to have controls that are easy to grip and
Speaker 1: use when you're you know, otherwise a little encumbered, so
Speaker 1: you may not be able to use the same sort
Speaker 1: of control devices that you would for other kinds of vehicles,
Speaker 1: like a steering wheel. Um. You know. One of the
Speaker 1: other things I discovered as I was going through my
Speaker 1: research for this podcast was, UM, I learned about the
Speaker 1: group that I didn't know about before, which is the
Speaker 1: NASA Inventions and Contributions Board. UM. They've actually giving out
Speaker 1: more than nine thousand awards according to their website, for
Speaker 1: different technologies related to the Space program. And it can
Speaker 1: be from NASA, from other government agencies or you know,
Speaker 1: even public industry or or academic environments. UM. They give
Speaker 1: away awards that they can't be any more than a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars unless they talk about it with Congress first.
Speaker 1: I had to get Congress, is okay, So it's like
Speaker 1: getting permission from Dad before you can you know, right right,
Speaker 1: and actually you can. You can learn about a lot
Speaker 1: of the technologies that are going around that NASA came
Speaker 1: up with. There's a magazine that they offer, uh called Spinoff. UM.
Speaker 1: It's available in print. You can't buy a subscription to it. UM.
Speaker 1: It's a little you know, you have to be in
Speaker 1: certain groups. I mean, it is available to the public,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, members of Congress, the NASA community.
Speaker 1: It's it's not the kind of thing that I would
Speaker 1: imagine most people want to read. But you can sign
Speaker 1: up for a free trial issue, which um, which I said,
Speaker 1: which you did because you know, I'm interested in this stuff. UM.
Speaker 1: And you know there are other tools too that people
Speaker 1: give NASA credit for, um, such as barcodes um and
Speaker 1: quartz clocks. So you know these things some of them
Speaker 1: and you know are used by NASA in different forms,
Speaker 1: but you know the ones that you see on the
Speaker 1: package at your local grocery store, you know, not really Yeah,
Speaker 1: just because it says space age does not necessarily mean
Speaker 1: that it came from NASA, although I could. I think
Speaker 1: I know what my favorite, my favorite invention based off
Speaker 1: of NASA's research really is. And I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: the Speedo suit swimming So okay, because all right, so
Speaker 1: you've got NASA, You've got this, uh, this enormous organization
Speaker 1: that I don't think there's another organization out there in
Speaker 1: the world that knows more about friction than NASA would.
Speaker 1: They've got to be at least among the top elite,
Speaker 1: top three, top three, easy, ye. So yeah, So Speedo
Speaker 1: goes up to NASA and says, hey, you know so
Speaker 1: much about friction, what's the best way to reduce it
Speaker 1: so that we can create a product that will move
Speaker 1: through the water effortlessly. Oh so you're not talking about
Speaker 1: the standard issue Speedo. You're talking about that Superla swimsuit
Speaker 1: reduces drag, breaks records, NASA spinoff. Yes, yes, that that
Speaker 1: Speedo and um and so according to NASA, the resulting
Speaker 1: suit reduces skin friction drag twenty more than the previous
Speaker 1: Speedo racing suit. You won't see me wearing one of
Speaker 1: these at the local pool because there are laws against
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And thank the legislators who passed them. Yes,
Speaker 1: so I'm done. Oh you know there was there was
Speaker 1: one that neither of us mentioned that that it did
Speaker 1: come in the email. Oh yeah yeah, freeze dried ice cream.
Speaker 1: Freeze dried. They absolutely did have something to do with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can blame them, but yeah, I mean they need
Speaker 1: freeze dried food. There's not there's not a fridge on
Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle. But not dippin' dots. They didn't do
Speaker 1: the No, I don't think they did dipping outs, but
Speaker 1: there are no sense why would you have dipping dots
Speaker 1: floating around the space cabin? You would, well, I mean
Speaker 1: I would, but that's because i'm you know, very Homer
Speaker 1: Simpson asked, as far as my astronaut training goes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, they're they're tons more. But those
Speaker 1: are just some of the more fun ones to talk about,
Speaker 1: right right, And like we said, patents actually more than
Speaker 1: that now. But um, yeah, it's a lot of rebound
Speaker 1: to have. Yeah, you're bound to have some some applications
Speaker 1: that go beyond just the space race. So justin there
Speaker 1: are plenty of inventions out there that meet your strict criteria,
Speaker 1: just not all the ones that you mentioned. Now, usually
Speaker 1: this would be the part where I would say that
Speaker 1: we have listener mail, and Chris would hide under the
Speaker 1: table because the alarm would go off. But we I
Speaker 1: don't have listener mail for this particular episode. And this
Speaker 1: is this is why it's not the legislators again to
Speaker 1: do it, because I will, I will go down and
Speaker 1: kiss their boots. No, I actually do have listener mail.
Speaker 1: But the listener mail I have comes in the form
Speaker 1: of questions, and there are several of them. And we thought,
Speaker 1: rather than throw in a listener mail at the end
Speaker 1: of an episode and try and answer the question at
Speaker 1: the very end of something that's totally unrelated, we're gonna
Speaker 1: try and do an episode that's really just questions from
Speaker 1: listeners and we're going to answer them. And we've got
Speaker 1: several stored up already. So we'll be trying that in
Speaker 1: the very near future and hopefully it'll be a big success.
Speaker 1: And if it is, then I certainly hope people will
Speaker 1: continue to write questions in because it makes it a
Speaker 1: lot easier when Chris and I sit down and say, so,
Speaker 1: what do you want to talk about? Yeah, So it's
Speaker 1: a lot easier when you just put listener mail jamboree,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what we're calling it because I just
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