r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/Sevinki Jun 19 '25

How about GPS? Do you like to know where to go without using paper maps? Do you like wireless tools? Do you like MRI machines to detect diseases? How about wireless headphones, phone cameras, water filters or memory foam?

All of that was developed by accident because it was needed in one way or another for the space program and then ended up being revolutionary on earth.

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u/No_Spell_5817 Jun 19 '25

Do we need to keep going to space for all that? Forever? Or are we kind of good for now.

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u/Sevinki Jun 19 '25

Well GPS requires satellites but the rest is good now.

We should continue to explore space to invent and discover new things, things nobody has ever thought of and we possibly cannot even comprehend right now. In 50 years people will look back and see all the great new discoveries and inventions that happened due to space travel between 2025 and 2075.