I am a French old timer, at the time of the moon landing I was 11. It was something huge for me and as a much older person I visited several times the Cap Canaveral, Kennedy Space center and one time Houston' Johnson center.
But no Nasa, did not invented Teflon nor popularized Teflon. I remember ads for Teflon frying pan at the same time as the Apollo program.
There is nothing unusual about it. Teflon was invented in 1938 more than 30 years before Apollo's moon landing.
And there were mass market Teflon frying pan starting from 1956, the NASA did not even existed at that time.
The article actually says that NASA didn't invent Teflon. The fact that Teflon pans were in ads does not invalidate the claim that NASA popularised it though.
This of course follows the point of the article amazingly well: Crypto developers didn't invent zero knowledge proofs, but they are bringing them into the mainstream and making them more available general software development.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 19.1 ms ] threadBut no Nasa, did not invented Teflon nor popularized Teflon. I remember ads for Teflon frying pan at the same time as the Apollo program. There is nothing unusual about it. Teflon was invented in 1938 more than 30 years before Apollo's moon landing. And there were mass market Teflon frying pan starting from 1956, the NASA did not even existed at that time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frying_pan#Non-stick
This of course follows the point of the article amazingly well: Crypto developers didn't invent zero knowledge proofs, but they are bringing them into the mainstream and making them more available general software development.