Too true

**scooter** · 25th October 2005, 11:47 PM

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.

Cheers.................Sean, just doodlin'

**DavidG** · 26th October 2005, 10:21 AM

Not true. See snopes

**DanP** · 26th October 2005, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by DavidG

Not true. See snopes

That's probably why it's in the "jokes" section.

**DavidG** · 26th October 2005, 02:06 PM

Yep! but it is amazing how a joke can carry on to be come someones for real story

" I heard from a reliable source that.........."

**ozwinner** · 26th October 2005, 06:54 PM

I worked in a factory some years ago, bored, my mind wandered.

I made up this story about how the Russians had made the worlds biggest nut and bolt, just to be the first to do it.

Only problem was, one factory made the nut another the bolt.

One was left handed thread, the other was right handed.

I told one person, within hours I was being told the story as if it was a real story.

Al

**doug the slug** · 26th October 2005, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by ozwinner

I told one person, within hours I was being told the story as if it was a real story.

Al

SOunds like the town i live in - if you havent heard a good rumour before you go to work, start one and see how much it has been enhanced before you get home

Too many people with too much time on their hands

**ozwinner** · 26th October 2005, 10:50 PM

Burnett Heads.

Bundy right?
We looked at going there some years back to live.
I couldnt handle the humidity.
Nice place though.

Al

**AlexS** · 26th October 2005, 10:54 PM

Aaaah, rumours.
A few years ago, SWMBO and one of her friends went away for a couple of days, so friend's hubby & I took our daughters (good looking teenagers at that stage) out for dinner at the local club.
They were no sooner back home than the word got back to them (via the waitress) that we had been spotted with a couple of girls, taking advantage of their absence.

**ozwinner** · 26th October 2005, 10:58 PM

You dirty old man.......

Al

**AlexS** · 26th October 2005, 11:00 PM

Not old at all, Al

**Wongo** · 27th October 2005, 02:34 PM

All that for a game of pictionary in space! :eek:

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