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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: J. P. who wrote (6574)1/31/2004 9:56:41 AM
From: Amelia Carhartt  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered
that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this
problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a
pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface
including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.

The Russians used a pencil.
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