In message , SteveS
writes

"raden" wrote in message
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In message , SteveS
writes

"raden" wrote
SNIP
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.

I've never been driven by necessity

You could also have pointed out that they didn't light the blue touch
paper to start Saturn 5's, IIRC it was usually orange

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geoff