Thursday, 25 October 2012

Russian Space Pen

An analogy I just came across that amused me...

"When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realised that the ballpoint pen would not work at zero gravity. A million dollor investment and two years of tests resulted in a pen that would write in space, upside down, on any surface and at any temperature from below freezing to over 300 degrees centrigade. When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a Pencil."


 

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