Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah, the taxpayer footed the bill. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] There's something about German design ... > Quite true - I didn't write that it cost NASA anything :-) Douglas > > Marc James Small wrote: > >> 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! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information