[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300o C. The Russians used a pencil. :wtf: and these are the people that put Astronauts on the moon??? WTF:huh: politics at it's finest [smilie=l: [/SIZE][/FONT]