NASA and the ball point pen.

H@rsh · Apr 22, 2006

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 · Apr 22, 2006

a classic!!! just dont fade with the years

dipdude · Apr 22, 2006

The Russians used a pencil.

Now thats what i call Height Of Ingenuity

reef_d · Apr 22, 2006

thats called common sense

Josh · Apr 24, 2006

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

digital_brain · Apr 24, 2006

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

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

Params7 · Apr 24, 2006

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

XD! Great one.

Trajan · Apr 24, 2006

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 · Apr 25, 2006

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

Aditya · Apr 25, 2006

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Awesome!!

Mohit · Apr 25, 2006

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

Chaos · Apr 25, 2006

This is a hoax... never was true

.

x86 · Apr 25, 2006

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 · Apr 25, 2006

@x86

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