"raden" wrote in message
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In message , SteveS
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"raden" wrote
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Now that's where you're wrong. The cooker ignition circuit was developed
(along with PTFE) by NASA scientists for lighting Saturn 5 rockets from
a
distance after they had several failures with the "light blue touch
paper
and retire to a safe distance"

It's untrue, BTW, that Teflon came out of the Apollo program. PTFE was
actually discovered accidentally by Roy Plunkett at DuPont in 1938.


No, really ?

Is that where they first learned to extract urea


Just pointing out a popular misconception. No need to get sarcy.