Thursday, July 01, 2004

ADVICE MY DAD PASSED ALONG TO HIS MAILING LIST

I know we all consider ourselves to be bright and excellent problem solvers. Remember don't over do it.

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.

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