Thursday, April 14, 2005

Can't resist. - 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.

Your taxes are due again--enjoy paying them.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your stories are very ammusing. Please post a new one soon!

April 15, 2005 2:53 PM  
Blogger Fickle said...

Nice you f*cking smug son of a Russian!

April 20, 2005 3:14 PM  

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