more gov. waste

[lonehunter]

>ZERO GRAVITY
>
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>When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that
>ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem,
>NASA
>scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in
>zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface including glass and at
>temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.
>
>The Russians used a pencil.
>
>Enjoy paying your taxes--they're due again
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[southernman]

and after a decade in the mir all that graphite floating around started to cause problems, so their spies stole our secret pen plans!

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