11mill. dollar pen, anyone?, page 1
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reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 02:02 PM by Wertdagf
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it has to do with air filtration systems and fan systems. Many components on the ship require ventillation and small peices of carbon getting into small moving parts could potentialy be bad.


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 02:10 PM by titorite
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Other alternatives could also include chalk and a chalk board. A magnetic writer pad like the kind they sell as kids toys. A squeeze marker. ...A tape recorder, one can always rewind in space or do transcription back on earth.

Or the Russian favorite, the pencil.

NASA, gotta love em.


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 02:16 PM by mrwupy
You can find some interesting information on the urban legend at Snopes. I too believed this for a long time, till I read their version of the story.



reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 03:00 PM by getreadyalready
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Even the ink pen with positive pressure (i.e. spring loaded vs. gravity fed) is a feasible and inexpensive solution. I am pretty sure world-class scientists solved this problem before their morning coffee was cold!

I could go home and build one right now out of a couple of broken pens!

I haven't read the snopes.com yet. I am looking forward to their take on this.


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 04:02 PM by kyle6677
I doubt it cost 11 million dollars seeing as they have version available for 60: www.spacepen.com... I don't think its the same company, but it works in much the same way. A kid in one of my college classes a few years ago had one.

Looking back at that Wikipedia page, it actually is the same company, and also states it was independently developed and THEN pitched to NASA, so again, I doubt one man had 11 million dollars to spend developing such a pen.

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