atma 0 Report post Posted March 22, 2002 When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and many millions of dollars to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, writes upside down and underwater on almost any surface, including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300C. The Russians used a pencil. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tarun 6 Report post Posted July 21, 2002 VaikunthanAth Prabhu asks & answers: What do StarTrek & Toilet Paper have in common? They both hang aroung Uranus searching to wipe out Klingons. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tarun 6 Report post Posted July 22, 2002 Back on VNN Forums (some 10,000 yrs ago) we defined NASA: N eed A nother S even A stronauts Since then we've received tons of calls, mostly regarding our deportation, but since no other country wants us we're safe other calls came in regarding employment, deployment, ploy, soy, spacejoy, ki joy, RaMAnanda Roy, Jagoy, Madhoy, Nitoy, Nimoy, Gadoy, hoi polloi, hoy hoy & the like. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites