Sunday, January 11, 2009

What's so funny? (2)


When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that would write in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 3oo ºC. The russian used a (...).
What?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it is nonsense to spend so much time and money to develop a pen, which has many qualities.
It would have been much more useful to devote the effort to alleviate world hunger.

Anonymous said...

I only need a cheap pen, because I don't think to work like astronaut.
All this money could be used for another necessities in the world.

Anonymous said...

The Russian could use a simple pencil.

Anonymous said...

I remember when I was working in my job. Our high managers, they were an objective: work without papers. It was the begining of computers.
Now,NASA scientists spend &12 billions for developing a pen.
I ask me. Who are wrong? My boss? the NASA?.
Sinceresly I thik that my boss. Because, if one day they would open a branch in the Shout or North Pole. How write on the papers? Because the computers don't works under those temperatures.
Sinceresly, I think this discovery is good for humanity and its cost is very cheap, if we think about the advantage for the humamnity.