Yeah, that's really stupid, I read that in a school book of mine too. The russians must have laughed their asses of.
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This is a true story about how the Soviets and NASA both went at space exploration:
When NASA first started sending men to space, they soon realised that ball point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA spent over a decade and 12 million dollars to develop a pen that could write upside down, in zero gravity, underwater, on any surface including glass, and temperatures ranging from freezing to 300 degrees.
The Russians just used a pencil.
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Yeah, that's really stupid, I read that in a school book of mine too. The russians must have laughed their asses of.
Reality, is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn\'t go away.
ha ha ha ha, the russians had good cause to laugh their arses off!
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'Should've just used crayons...
The prolonged barrage engulfed Zero-One in the glow of a thousand suns. But unlike their former masters with their delicate flesh, the machines had little to fear of the bombs' radiation and heat. Thus did Zero-One's troops advance outwards in every direction. And one after another, mankind surrendered its territories. So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet. A final solution: the destruction of the sky.
-- The 2nd Renaissance (Part2), Animatrix
Or they should have used (I don't know if this is the correct english word for it) finger paint.
Reality, is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn\'t go away.
Yah, we Russians have a thing with being more intelligent than Americans..... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*cough*
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lol, yea we had a conversation about this when we were in a shop and my sister asked what a space pen was. We explained then she asked why they didnt just use a blue pencil, because "it makes the same colour doesnt it??
My sister was 6 at the time, what does that say??
(Edited by mcleodstickle at 11:10 am on Sep. 29, 2002)
I think it was Truman who said that Russia is a nation of chess players whilst the US is a nation of poker players.
Property Is Theft.
Its America's tax dollars hard at work! LOL
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V.I. Lenin
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It wasn't about the pen, it was about proving that America could make the pen while the Russians were really too poor to spend millions developing a space pen
...First they came for the Communists...
Yeah, like America was going to launch a strategic missile attack with nuclear-tipped space pens to blott out Mother Russia in the '60's... :biggrin:
The prolonged barrage engulfed Zero-One in the glow of a thousand suns. But unlike their former masters with their delicate flesh, the machines had little to fear of the bombs' radiation and heat. Thus did Zero-One's troops advance outwards in every direction. And one after another, mankind surrendered its territories. So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet. A final solution: the destruction of the sky.
-- The 2nd Renaissance (Part2), Animatrix
