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To: mabarker1

Did You know that while We (NASA) created a Ballpoint Space Pen that pumps the Ink to the Tip so it would write in Zero Gravity the Ruskie’s simply took a bunch of #2 Pencils up to Space...

The downside to graphite pencils is graphite is conductive. Break off the end of a graphite pencil and you have a potential electrical short floating around the space capsule. You don’t want to sharpen a graphite pencil in space as now you’ve created microscopic graphite dust, which is also conductive.


23 posted on 08/14/2018 4:25:08 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: Flick Lives
Good point I’d not thought about.

Эй, Грег можно взметнуть мне что точилка?

Флойд получить карандаш outta автомат теплозащитного экрана

25 posted on 08/14/2018 4:57:56 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!p)
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