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Originally Posted by merlin8r
As for biro's, here's a great analogy. NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pen that would work in zero gravity. The Soviets used a pencil.
Clear skies,
Shane
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Unfrortunately, this is one of those urban myths that should be true, but isn't. For the real story see
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
BTW I still have 2 slide rules, both made by Faber-Castell
Geoff