gcreekrch
Well-known member
No wonder the Americans have financial problems;
Guess they thought they'd never run out of money !!!
When NASA first planned to send 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 $1.2
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 +300 C.
Confronted with the same problem, the Canadians used a pencil.
Guess they thought they'd never run out of money !!!
When NASA first planned to send 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 $1.2
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 +300 C.
Confronted with the same problem, the Canadians used a pencil.
