RE: pens

The reason I often seek to defend such claims is that they are often
exaggerated by the media.
Take, for example, the "$600,000 toilet seat". This was, in part, a
toilet
seat. However, a little digging will find out the rest of the story. The
cost was for a completely contained high-altitude toilet for use on
military
planes. Now, I'm no expert in toilet design, but it's not as simple as
plunking a common toilet into a pressurized room. Anyway, the media
heard
about it and the rest is history.....
Eric

> It was on a science program about NASA a few (give or take) years back
on
> the government broadcaster down here.
>
> Though to be fair the show (or maybe a later one) did point out that
they
> were making their money back selling them in the gift shops at NASA
and
> Smithsonian (??).
>
> Beth
>