The Anti-Gravity Pen

>> Saturday, February 7, 2009


When the U.S. went into space, the ‘experts’ at NASA decided we needed an anti-gravity ballpoint pen that worked under weightless conditions. About SIX MILLION dollars later, we had one. The Russian astronauts simply used pencils! These work on friction, not gravity.

2 comments:

Anonymous May 6, 2009 at 11:19 AM  

This is not true. This is a popular hoax. NASA bought the commercially available pens from the Fisher Pen Company for $2.39 each. No tax payer money was used for the development of the pens. The same pens were used by the Soviet Space Agency.

José Sinclair May 7, 2009 at 3:48 AM  

Maybe you're right, but in an era of $6000 toilets and $12 bolts paid to government contractors, and in light of the apparent infinite greed of capitalists, I'm thinking that 6 million sounds more realistic than $2.39.

I have a pen from the Smithsonian Institution that says otherwise, so I guess they scammed me to get my money!

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