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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:07 PM Original message |
Besides the internet and GPS, what other DoD inventions |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. Google Earth, perhaps n/t |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. Aqueducts? |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Umm, I think this was invented a few thousand years earlier. n/t |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Okay, but aside from the water, sanitation, roads, wine, and public safety |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. LOL |
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Yurovsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
3. What, nobody uses an M-16 to kill their dinner? |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Maybe not a M-16, but an AR-15 |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
5. The Interstate System was initially military |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Yes, General Eisenhower started a lot of this |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
7. Probably satellite communications n/t |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. kinda depends on what innovations in weather predictions the DoD |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. How about all of the advances in medicine? n/t |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
11. Countless including the method you used to send your question. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
14. The spring. |
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Johnny Harpo (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
15. How About Velcro.....n/t |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-21-10 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
16. I wear a tritium watch ... |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
17. Composites and other high strength matierals came from the DoD |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
18. Velcro |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
19. for the monies spent....we got robbed.... |
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davidthegnome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
20. Am I missing something? |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
21. Titanium knees. |
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Angleae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 06:28 AM Response to Original message |
22. I just nuked something in the microwave. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
23. Cell Phones |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
24. An A-2 flight jacket. n/t |
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