November 2009
18 posts
The Pencil
russianpencil:
There is an old joke, or urban myth if you look at it another way, that goes something like this:
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...
