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Date Posted: 17:09:47 01/17/04 Sat
Author: READ ON ------
Subject: Oh KATHY, YOUR SO RIGHT. I TRUST NASA TO SPEND OUR MONEY WISELY
In reply to: Let's-Talk 's message, "Mars" on 05:38:37 01/11/04 Sun

ZERO GRAVITY

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they
quickly discovered
that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity.
To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade
and $12 billion
developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside
down, on almost any
surface including glass and at temperatures ranging
from below freezing to over
300 C.

The Russians used a pencil.

Enjoy paying your taxes--they're due again.

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[> [> Re: Oh KATHY, YOUR SO RIGHT. I TRUST NASA TO SPEND OUR MONEY WISELY -- KATHY, 03:19:51 01/18/04 Sun

Many people have to write things in strange positions,such as mechanics,this makes the cost cheaper.


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[> [> Re: Oh KATHY, YOUR SO RIGHT. I TRUST NASA TO SPEND OUR MONEY WISELY -- HUH?, 05:31:14 01/18/04 Sun

what the hell does that mean?

This was not a private company developing the pen, it was the US Govt. and they are NOT profitting from it. I'm a mechanic, and I never had a need for one. IF I had to write upside down I'd use a ....PENCIL.

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