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Jan. 9th, 2005 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyMy friend Rachel is over. She just shared a historical tidbit with me.
On one of the first flights into space, American astronauts discovered that their pens wouldn't work without gravity. They proceeded to spends millions of dollars of NASA money developing a pen which would work with or without gravity.
The Russians used a pencil.
On one of the first flights into space, American astronauts discovered that their pens wouldn't work without gravity. They proceeded to spends millions of dollars of NASA money developing a pen which would work with or without gravity.
The Russians used a pencil.
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Date: 2005-01-10 12:55 am (UTC)Why, yes, that is my entire comment.
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Date: 2005-01-10 03:22 am (UTC)http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
Gnu, killjoy-scientist-at-large
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Date: 2005-01-10 06:24 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-01-10 08:59 am (UTC)Thanks for wasting untold minutes listening to me ramble tonight.
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Date: 2005-01-10 09:02 am (UTC)Although I *still* kinda like the idea of the Russian astronauts laughing in the face of flying pencil leads and going on about their work, and eventually taking advantage of the American ingenuity while still enjoying their Communist principles ...
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Date: 2005-01-10 09:22 pm (UTC)Although, geek as I am, I still enjoyed the motivation for the space pen even more: the regular pencils burst into flames in the 100% oxygen atmosphere... imagine how suprised those poor austronouts must have been.