No wonder the Americans have financial problems;
guess they thought
they would never run out of money!
When NASA first planned to send 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 $1.2
billion to develop a pen that writes in zero
gravity, upside down,
underwater, on almost any surface including
glass, and at
temperatures ranging from below freezing to +300C.
Confronted with the same problem, A child would use a pencil.
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