No wonder the USA has financial problems...

[DaTT]

Guess they thought they’d 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 million 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 +300 C.

Confronted with the same problem, the Canadians used a pencil.

😀

I remember getting this in my email around, ohhhh, sometime in the 90's. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp Considered locking it, but who knows, maybe some good will come out of the thread. -DrPizza

 

[WT]

And when confronted with a critical situation which called for writing on glass, or at temperatures ranging from below freezing to +300 C, the Canadians (I heard this story and it was the Russians who used the pencil, not our Canadian friends) ended up calling the Americans and asked "Can we borrow that cool pen you guys have ?"

 

[busydude]

Guess they thought they’d 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 million 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 +300 C.

Confronted with the same problem, the Canadians used a pencil.

😀

Quoting, just in case.

 

[Oyeve]

I have one of those pens.

 

[Doppel]

Guess they thought they’d 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 million 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 +300 C.

Confronted with the same problem, the Canadians used a pencil.

😀

You've been on the internet at least 8 years, you should know better than this!

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

 

[0roo0roo]

Guess they thought they’d 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 million 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 +300 C.

Confronted with the same problem, the Canadians used a pencil.

😀

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

yeerp....egg on ur face!

 

[arkcom]

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

yeerp....egg on ur face!

He spent over $1 million designing that pen and then sold 400 of them for under $3 each... lol

 

[Jeff7]

Older than the space program.

 

[sdifox]

Guess they thought they’d 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 million 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 +300 C.

Confronted with the same problem, the Canadians used a pencil.

😀

It was the Russians.. Not the Canadians, or so the myth goes

 

[arcenite]

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

yeerp....egg on ur face!

:biggrin:

 

[boomerang]

 

[Doppel]

 

[sdifox]

He spent over $1 million designing that pen and then sold 400 of them for under $3 each... lol

the marketing value of that was probably more than the dev cost. Still being marketed that way to this day.

 

[ichy]

They're launching mounties into space? Do they feed them dehydrated space poutine while they're in orbit?

 

[bignateyk]

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

yeerp....egg on ur face!

That GIF is amazing. I've been watching it for about 10 minutes now. :biggrin:

 

[KillerCharlie]

Hahaha, he changed it from Russian to Canadian... now it looks even dumber.

 

[bignateyk]

Thanks for the forward Grandma.

 

[Exterous]

For some reason I read this and thought of those AOL floppies they used to send out

 

[Zargon]

I have a space pen! 😀

 

[DaTT]

Lol, I figured it was old but is the first I have seen it. Maybe I will eventually upgrade from my 28.8 modem to a 56k?

 

[Fritzo]

I have one of those pens.

Take my pen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKHW61Y118A

 

[Arcadio]

There's nothing wrong with a funny repost once in a while.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Bill Clinton ordered 50 Tomahawks Cruise missiles costing $1,000,000 each to destroy $50 mud houses that belonged to Osama's family. What a stupidity? What a poor ROI (Return On Investment)! And then Bush went into Iraq!

In return Osama's attack on the US.
Cost: 19 martyrs and less than $500,000.
Cost to the West: over 3,000 dead.

At least $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) dollars economical loss in one year. This includes the ripple effect.

Osama's ROI with respect to: life = 3,000/19 = 158 fold.
Dollar = $1 tr./500K = 2,000,000 fold

That is modern warfare.

Thats where some of it went as well

 

[ichy]

It should be "economic loss," not "economical loss."

 

[RavenSEAL]

This thread can only get better, LOL @ Canadian Cape Canaveral and self nut check...