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Artificial Heart - The technology used in space shuttle fuel pumps led to the development of a miniaturized ventricular assist pump by NASA and renowned heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey. The tiny pump -- 2-inches long, 1-inch in diameter and weighing less than four ounces -- is currently undergoing European clinical trials where it has been successfully implanted into more than 20 people.

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How many lives has it changed? Not many.

You really want to keep on going down this road, because I can go on with various devices that were built on NASA research and technology. Devices that have been developed by NASA and their spinoffs have saved millions of lives. How about you quit while you're behind and just admit that you were wrong and that you'll listen to people smarter than yourself, which pretty much consists of this entire board and humanity at large.

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Posted by pensacola

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Posted on 2/22/15 at 10:13 am to OMLandshark

The hyperloop

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Posted by runningTiger

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Posted on 2/22/15 at 10:20 am to OMLandshark

Heart transplant, not LVAD, but I don't expect someone like you to pick up the nuances.

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Posted by Peazey

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Posted on 2/22/15 at 10:21 am to OMLandshark

The guy uses the fact that the NASA program achieved so much in so little time as a mark against how impressive it truly is. He completely disregards the possibilitye of some kind of advancement in space travel. As if these things need to happen on a scale of decades to be possible. He works with inconsistent cross uses of reasoning. He also downplays the importance of the current level of space exploration and what we have learned from it about the nature of our universe. Dude is an arse.

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