just read this on the huc alumnae list:
"NASA found that it was impossible to use a ballpoint pen in space because the ink would not flow freely, so they spent $1.2 billion dollars developing a pen that was functional under -330 F degrees to +471 F. conditions.
Very proud of his achievement, the chief project engineer boasted of his success to one of his Israeli peers, who replied, "in our experiments we found the same thing, so we decided to use pencils"."
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