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While in Provo, Utah this past September we read the following blurb in the local “Coffee Times” newsletter:

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they 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 degrees Celsius. The Russians used a pencil.

Not sure if the facts are true (though we wouldn’t be at all surprised) but found this to be humorous, regardless. Gotta love that good ol’ American ingenuity!