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From: Eiron on 28 Jul 2010 08:06 On 28/07/2010 10:11, darsy wrote: > "the Russians used a pencil" "Some bum's got my pencil."
From: Jim on 28 Jul 2010 09:52 On 28/07/10 14:39, ian field wrote: >>>> Q: What does NASA stand for? >>>> A: [it's obvious] >>> >>> <sigh> >>> >>> "the Russians used a pencil" >> >> Need Another Seven Astronauts >> (see, it was obvious) > > > 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. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
From: Pip Luscher on 28 Jul 2010 13:41 On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:25:09 +0100, Cab <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >Get many opportunities to write upside down? Writing on a blackboard for a class of bats. But that would require chalk. -- -Pip
From: Mark Olson on 28 Jul 2010 13:55 Cab wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:08:01 -0500, Mark Olson wibbled: >> I have a couple of Fisher Space Pens FWIW. >> >> Pressurized, with special ink, and they do write when upside down. >> > > Get many opportunities to write upside down? In space? No, why do you ask? In fact, they're nice pens, and there are times when writing on a vertical surface puts the point of the pen above the barrel, and these pens handle that situation well, unlike a standard biro.
From: Mark Olson on 28 Jul 2010 15:24
Cab wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:55:07 -0500, Mark Olson wibbled: >>>> I have a couple of Fisher Space Pens FWIW. >>>> >>>> Pressurized, with special ink, and they do write when upside down. >>> >>> Get many opportunities to write upside down? In space? >> No, why do you ask? > > Subtle humo(u)r :-) > >> In fact, they're nice pens, and there are times when writing on a vertical >> surface puts the point of the pen above the barrel, and these pens handle >> that situation well, unlike a standard biro. > > I don't doubt you, but tbh, I can't see the point of them. They're not supposed to be especially practical, although they do work as a normal pen. They're sold as a curiosity of the space age, a chance for an average joe to own something the astronauts used. Having just had a glance at the website and seen the prices, I'm gobsmacked and must agree, I don't see the point. The ones I have were given to me as gifts. |