Funny to Canadians
 

I received another E-mail from my friend in Arizona.

> > (The funniest joke according to Canadians)
> >
> > 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 Celsius.
> >
> > Confronted with the same problem the Russians used a pencil.

since when can you write underwater and on glass or almost ANY other surface at a temperature 300 Celsius with a pencil?

So you've tried it then?

i have heard that joke as a story many times before. I didn't realize it was urban legend.

Now that's fucking entertainment.

Who says you can?

"When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem,......"

"Confronted with the same problem the Russians..."

I'm not sure it IS an urban legend, although I don't think they spent $12 Billion on it.

They didn't. It was $11,999,999,999.98. :)

The famous space pen was developed by Paul Fisher the founder of the Fisher pen company. The company says it took Fisher about 2 years and $2 million to develop the space pen

http://www.spacepen.com

Jerry Seinfeld had a space pen didn't he?