Timeline for Is there any practical use for astronomy?
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| Apr 3, 2015 at 6:09 | comment | added | pela | @HDE226868: Ha ha, okay thanks, but I don't know, maybe the typo was actually right… :) | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 22:51 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @pela That was a typo! I edited the comment to add something - It originally said, "you're not being too pretentious". Sorry about that! | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 21:08 | comment | added | pela | Okay, okay, @HDE226868 and DavidHammen, re-reading my answer I agree with you on being pretentious. But I would consider aerospace engineering to be a part of astronomy, even though I also agree that the original motiviation was less noble. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 21:44 | comment | added | David Hammen | Inventing rockets is not astronomy. It's aerospace engineering. Almost all of those spinoffs are from aerospace engineering, not astronomy. | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 20:24 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | I agree with you on the last bit - and you're being too pretentious! - but the advances you list were thanks to engineering, not astronomy itself. Astronomy has motivated space exploration, but the original motivation for sending up humans was - for the US and the USSR - less noble. I suppose that sounds a bit pretentious. . . | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 19:40 | history | answered | pela | CC BY-SA 3.0 |