It has come to my attention that much of the great technology in the world has come from the human want to kill anther human or defend its self from being killed. I am talking about the Military. Let me list some examples, I don't feel like citing and its not the point of my post any way.

The US and Soviet Space program - The military technology and influence is so blatant. Most of the rockets up to the N1 and US's Saturn V and Soviet's N1 were rather misses with the nuclear bomb replaced with a money or something or the space rockets where made of several parts of other military rockets. Its a shame that there was no need to nuke mars.

Hubble telescopic - Optics from spy satellites, but faced the other way

Nice satellite view maps - spy satellites with nothing better to do

A large Amount Early Nuclear research - You know this story

Teflon - made in the pursuit to extract uranium (not the space program) , UF6 is some really corrosive stuff

The internet - ARPANET was started by the US DOD

A large amount of the advancement in aviation - Those commies lived a long ways away, we need good planes.

Gyroscopic auto pilot - First seen in the V2 rocket

Now to the point of my post does any one have any more information on this? I would really like to read more on this concept.

Automatic transmissions for motorcars and the Haber process for producing ammonia.

the use of solvents to extract metals came from the Manhattan project.

alot of chemical production methods come from various armed forces finding ways to make toxic gasses (in a similiar fashion to the haber process mentioned) and the like.

there are hundreds of examples. i wouldn't be surprised if wikipedia had a big list of them.

This is the best I could do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar...ing_of_science

http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbook...e/uu38ne0a.htm Also seems to have some interesting information.

Duct Tape, Band Aids, etc.

GPS

Improvements in metallurgy and the understanding of materials

Not to mention alot of modern medicines, drugs and surgical techniques for treating patients.

Microwaves ;D

war always drives the fastest advances in technology, its the competetion.

I'm guessing the shit that the governments know how to do isn't anywhere near what is released to the public, imagine all the recovered crashed alien craft over the years, reverse engineering all them, finding out how things work, surely they would of had an idea how to do things better, propulsion (aurora spyplane?), weapons, anti gravity, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cern#Computer_science