Friday, October 07, 2005

Ballpointheads

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 above 300 C.

The Russians used a pencil.

And its fools like me who cross the sea that pay the damn taxes.

1 comment:

shreya said...

where so you get this kind of useless info? and where have you been?

and what was that "quote" of yours...the one about the size of the pencil vis a vis sex?