Posted by kazoo on August 31, 2001, at 16:58:20
In reply to Subject: NASA, posted by susan C on August 31, 2001, at 13:05:49
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> When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that
> ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA
> scientists spent a decade and $12 Billion to develop a pen that writes in
> zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass
> and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300C. The Russians used a
> pencil.^^^^^^^^^
But, my dear, the pen(is) mightier than the pencil.
Besides, I found an underwater pen certainly useful when I wrote my memoirs sitting at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle in 1997. Try *that* with a pencil and see what you get.
MEOW!kaZoo
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