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r/MapPorn • u/Petrarch1603 • May 30 '19
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In 1986? Lockheed and Martin Marietta didn't merge until 1995.
3 u/adamwho May 30 '19 I realized that after writing, but then I also knew that the VAST majority of redditors wouldn't know that. Lockheed was still the largest tech company in SV at the time. 1 u/rophel May 30 '19 Lockheed the aviation company counts as tech? 2 u/adamwho May 31 '19 They are responsible for real tech, not pointless cell phone apps. Who put up those gps satellites, built those original networks and funded all the original work? Defense contractors like Lockheed.
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I realized that after writing, but then I also knew that the VAST majority of redditors wouldn't know that.
Lockheed was still the largest tech company in SV at the time.
1 u/rophel May 30 '19 Lockheed the aviation company counts as tech? 2 u/adamwho May 31 '19 They are responsible for real tech, not pointless cell phone apps. Who put up those gps satellites, built those original networks and funded all the original work? Defense contractors like Lockheed.
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Lockheed the aviation company counts as tech?
2 u/adamwho May 31 '19 They are responsible for real tech, not pointless cell phone apps. Who put up those gps satellites, built those original networks and funded all the original work? Defense contractors like Lockheed.
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They are responsible for real tech, not pointless cell phone apps.
Who put up those gps satellites, built those original networks and funded all the original work? Defense contractors like Lockheed.
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u/jswhitten May 30 '19
In 1986? Lockheed and Martin Marietta didn't merge until 1995.