NASA and the ball point pen.

[H@rsh]

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 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.
The Russians used a pencil.

 

[Checksum]

a classic!!! just dont fade with the years

 

[dipdude]

The Russians used a pencil.

Now thats what i call Height Of Ingenuity

 

[reef_d]

thats called common sense

 

[Josh]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Google is awesome with his jokes....

 

[digital_brain]

yaap read it long time ago and posted it in another forum ..

But its a gem of a joke ... :lol:

 

[Params7]

And then i wonder how it were the Americans that first made it to the moon.

XD! Great one.

 

[Trajan]

Guys this was a joke on NASA and it isnt real... read for more information from the following link...

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/spacepen.htm

 

[Abhishek]

heh...??
heard it LOOONG back....

 

[Aditya]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Awesome!!

 

[Mohit]

:rofl: :rofl: is this really true ???

 

[Chaos]

This is a hoax... never was true .

 

[x86]

awesome google awesome!!!
and bout nasa and moon goin thingy i had a video tht said it has a hoax infact there were real plenty of reasons behind tht which kinda made me belif *roman mob*

 

[H@rsh]

@x86

I saw that video too, and other such videos on Discovery and NGC. Very convincing stuff there.