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zx10_bez

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NASA
« on: July 01, 2010, 02:53:37 AM »

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint 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 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.
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Re: NASA
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2010, 11:24:44 AM »

 [rofl] Americans, all the gear and no idea! [clap]
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