As if any of their super fit astronauts are going to have a fry-up or cooked breakfast whilst they are fannying about in space counting planets and things. they just eat de-hydrated water and stuff don't they
Makes no sense to me...
2006-09-11 03:13:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Oh Ichi, I love your silly Q's :) Maybe the astronauts want us to appreciate real cooked food more, since all they have to eat is freeze-dried ice cream and maybe some M&M's, so they gave us Teflon pans as a great gift ;)
2006-09-11 03:24:39 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ Luveniar♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, get your facts straight....a scientist at Dupont invented Teflon, the substance that doesn't allow things to stick to it, has many uses
Teflon is a colorless, odorless powder, a fluoroplastic with many properties which give an increasingly wide range of uses.
Somebody decided to put the new invention on frying pans, so things don't stick while cooking....
it's the TEFLON that's the invention, not the TEFLON on frying pans
TEFLON is used in many products (carpets-stain resistance, etc)
trying doing a YAHOO search on Teflon, and get your facts straight.....
2006-09-11 03:48:36 · answer #2 · answered by just me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lady on top of me (?) is right.
But she doesn't realise that NASA itself created the fictitious industrial giant 'DuPont' to take the blame for the invention of Teflon by Scotty Beamiupp Jr, a NASA scientist, in 1972.
Teflon was originally designed to be a special clothing fabric to deter 'lonely' astronauts from undressing each other on moonlit spacewalks.
In 1974, the American astronaut Lt. Robert 'Porky' Bratwurst III discovered its unexpected utility in cooking, and smuggled 4 strips of bacon on board the ill-fated Vibrator 2 mission.
This caused most of his crew to be sucked out into space, as his fellow astronauts outside the space-craft opened the hatches to get a better smell of the bacon frying in the Vibrator 2's kitchen.
2006-09-11 07:51:15 · answer #3 · answered by Bowzer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh puleeze. Tell me your joking. Many products we use in our everyday lives were invented by NASA scientists for use in the space program. Your example of Teflon (which by the way was developed byDuPont) is a good one, Teflon was designed as a heat protectant fabric, I believe. It was after it's industrial use that consumer uses were developed.
2006-09-11 03:27:54 · answer #4 · answered by MARIA K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They lined their arsenals with it ( Holy, leapin' arsenals!) ... antigravity conditions can cause "sticky issues" that can't be remedied with floating tissues ...
Maybe I don't mean "arsenals" exactly ... but it has some censor resistance .. lol
I even managed a dram of iambic pentameter up there!..Tell Bowser Petey Dupont cornered the rope market by not inhaling his hemp ...lol .. I concur halfheartedly!
I always ask my rabbit friends about the problems they may have with stuff "sticking" to their fur .. Seems a polite query, before exercising my next move ...
2006-09-11 07:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by gmonkai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a shame i just found out how dangerous that stuff is and how much damage teflon has done to the human body such as kidney failure. i'm sad to say that was one invention maybe not worth making for consumer use.
2006-09-11 03:33:50 · answer #6 · answered by Thebronx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space Sticks! Remember those tree-branch snacks?
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2006-09-11 03:21:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they invented it, by trying to keep them safe while out in space,they could care less about our eating comfort, they just knew they could make big bucks off of it
2006-09-11 03:28:17 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So when they go into re-entry they slide right in ? No stick no hassle ?
2006-09-11 11:35:04 · answer #9 · answered by bbq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe because its a non-stick pan?you fry eggs it won't stick?
2006-09-11 03:17:27 · answer #10 · answered by ##$SoulStryker$## 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋