From: Pete & Renee Davis (pandr@metrocast.net)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 09:17:04 PDT
Oops. Please excuse my rehashing of this previous list message. I was sharing
it with some friends and relatives and I must have clicked the wrong listing
in my address book. Better go make another pot of coffee.
Pete Davis
Pete & Renee Davis wrote:
> 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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