[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/8/2002 4:53:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> <<
> >Leo: "We spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could write in
> >space. Do you know what the Russians did?"
> >Josh: "Used a pencil?"
> >Leo: "Used a pencil."
> >~The West Wing~
>
>
>
> However, there was at least one good reason that NASA chose not to use
> pencils: the wood and graphite shavings generated by sharpening a pencil
> would float in the air in microgravity, (1) being breathed in by the
> astronauts and (2) perhaps getting into the electronic equipment and
> causing short circuits (graphite being a conductor) or sparks, which would
> have been fatal in the pure oxygen atmosphere used prior to the Apollo 1
> fire.
> >>
>
> The research contract should have gone to Hallmark.
>
> Crayons are edible and non-conductive.
There's an idea! I like that one. And it would be so much easier to do
color-coding if necessary, because Crayolas come in so many colors!
How about grease-pencil? What are the advantages and disadvantages to
using a grease-pencil?
Julia
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