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From: spike1 on 29 Jul 2010 06:01
And verily, didst ian field <gangprobing.alien(a)ntlworld.com> hastily babble thusly:
> That may have been a reference to NASA spending $millions designing a ball
> point pen, only to find it still didn't work in zero gravity - the allegedly
> bacward Russians used pencils and didn't have any problem.

Urban myth trounced by Qi.
Pencils are dangerous in space, graphite granuels floating around willy
nilly getting into the electronics and shorting things out...

A NORMAL ballpoint pen will work in zero G, there's no need to design one
that'll work upside down or anything.
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From: Ace on 29 Jul 2010 06:15
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:01:33 +0100, spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote:

>And verily, didst ian field <gangprobing.alien(a)ntlworld.com> hastily babble thusly:
>> That may have been a reference to NASA spending $millions designing a ball
>> point pen, only to find it still didn't work in zero gravity - the allegedly
>> bacward Russians used pencils and didn't have any problem.
>
>Urban myth trounced by Qi.

Never!

Christ, what is this, 2005 all over again?

From: darsy on 29 Jul 2010 06:54
On Jul 29, 11:15 am, Ace <b.rog...(a)ifrance.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:01:33 +0100, spi...(a)freenet.co.uk wrote:

> >Urban myth trounced by Qi.
>
> Never!
>
> Christ, what is this, 2005 all over again?

only as far back as '05?

Seems to me the spacepen nonsense has been going since I was in P6
(and had a Parker space pen), around 1977 or so.

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From: Ace on 29 Jul 2010 07:12
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:54:25 -0700 (PDT), darsy <darsyx(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Jul 29, 11:15�am, Ace <b.rog...(a)ifrance.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:01:33 +0100, spi...(a)freenet.co.uk wrote:
>
>> >Urban myth trounced by Qi.
>>
>> Never!
>>
>> Christ, what is this, 2005 all over again?
>
>only as far back as '05?
>
>Seems to me the spacepen nonsense has been going since I was in P6
>(and had a Parker space pen), around 1977 or so.

You're right, but I think loads of people still believed it.
From: darsy on 29 Jul 2010 07:16
On Jul 29, 12:12 pm, Ace <b.rog...(a)ifrance.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:54:25 -0700 (PDT), darsy <dar...(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Jul 29, 11:15 am, Ace <b.rog...(a)ifrance.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:01:33 +0100, spi...(a)freenet.co.uk wrote:
>
> >> >Urban myth trounced by Qi.
>
> >> Never!
>
> >> Christ, what is this, 2005 all over again?
>
> >only as far back as '05?
>
> >Seems to me the spacepen nonsense has been going since I was in P6
> >(and had a Parker space pen), around 1977 or so.
>
> You're right, but I think loads of people still believed it.

-ed it seems!

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