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Kevin Owens

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When NASA first started sending up Astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would no 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 items ranging from below freezing to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.

 

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I think that's an urban myth. Besides a pencil would be terrible in space. All those flecks of graphite spraying everywhere, and the mess when you sharpen it

So? It's still funny.

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Just notice, the Soviet Union is in little pieces. The United States are still stuck together. Perhaps space-pens were worth it. :P

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I think that's an urban myth. Besides a pencil would be terrible in space. All those flecks of graphite spraying everywhere, and the mess when you sharpen it

So? It's still funny.

jokes: serious business

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I think that's an urban myth. Besides a pencil would be terrible in space. All those flecks of graphite spraying everywhere, and the mess when you sharpen it

So? It's still funny.

jokes: serious business

why so serious?

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Just notice, the Soviet Union is in little pieces. The United States are still stuck together. Perhaps space-pens were worth it. :P

The joke has been ruined

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I think that's an urban myth. Besides a pencil would be terrible in space. All those flecks of graphite spraying everywhere, and the mess when you sharpen it

So? It's still funny.

jokes: serious business

why so serious?

Joculation is no easy business

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