Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:57 AM 1/14/2007, Douglas Sharp wrote: >Bill, >On an amusing note, a recent TV commercial here showed a ball-point pen >designed and developed for NASA at a cost of millions, and able to write >in a vacuum and weightless environment - as a comparison they showed the >Russian counterpart - a graphite pencil. :-) >Like Ted Grant always says KISS. Douglas This pen cost NASA nothing. It was a gift from the civilian manufacturer who simply wanted a NASA endorsement for their advertizing. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!