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plankton
20-01-2008, 06:25 PM
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, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300° C.











The Russians used a pencil.

dekdel
21-04-2008, 07:46 PM
hi planton

$12 billion dollars that a log of money foe a ball point pen.

dekdel