Re: [FT] Ballpoints In Space

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:23:45 +1100, aebrain@austarmetro.com.au wrote:

> Like all good stories regarding million-dollar toilet seats etc there
may be
> method to the madness.

I noticed that no one mentioned the fact that the $2 million dollar pen
actually saved the lives of the Apollo 11 crew. If all they had was a
pencil... well, here's the article from Spider Robinson, who tells it
quite
well (except for the silly name calling of William Proxmire; not that he
didn't deserve it):

http://www.galaxymagazine.com/Robinson_Spider/SenatorSockdryer_001.html

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
Goodall's Grotto:  http://www.vex.net/~agoodall

"Now, see, if you combine different colours of light,
 you get white! Try that with Play-Doh and you get
 brown! How come?" - Alan Moore & Kevin Nolan, 
   "Jack B. Quick, Boy Inventor"