From: Pete & Renee Davis (pandr@metrocast.net)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 09:06:46 PDT
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered
that
ball-point pens would not work in 0 gravity.
To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion
developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater,
on
almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from
below
freezing to over 300 C.
The Russians used a pencil.
Your tax dollars at work.
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