You Won't Believe These Amazing Facts About Pens In Space!!!!
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Hah... actually amazing that these myths are still floating around :) Snopes.com has a couple of examples of the space pen myth, including the one which claims it cost $12billion http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp Of course the AG-7 pen is available from Amazon if you want one http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015ZP2AC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015ZP2AC&linkCode=as2&tag=djsnm-20&linkId=CLZ52COSEUOXQPK7 Outtro music is http://ccmixter.org/files/F_Fact/40596 (yes, the title is supposed to be a joke on clickbait titles... it won't happen again)
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You can use pens upside dowj if you shake it and use centifigual force to make it work. I still like pencils better. I will make a space pencil with asbestos! Much less flammable.
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THE RUSSIANS USED A PENCIL
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Does Scott dye his eyebrows?
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I have had a bunch of space pens and they are so great. I like the bullet style and I am really pissed that I just lost one somewhere and I can't find it.
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lol if it cost 12 bill they would take quite a loss since you can buy a good one for 50$.
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Do they use computers now or do they still use pens?
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his nose at 5:58
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But it has to be true. I saw it on The West Wing!
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What's the video those religious nuts misappropriated?
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Sort of randomly came across the video. I didn't really think about it at first that writing in space would be such an issue but a lot of what you stated makes sense when dealing with 0 G. As someone once stated that you should try and learn something new every day even if its not something I will ever use :P
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At the start when I heard space pens were 12 billion dollars, I was pretty confused, because I own a space pen.
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My ball point pen works just fine upside down.
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As a lover of pens (have had a Pelikan fountain pen for 6 years I still use and a brush pen I just got) this video is quite interesting :D
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I've always thought that anecdotes like the space pen one are comforting to a certain type of individual, when they are feeling dissatisfied with their lot in life.
"Hah, those guys with all their degrees and money couldn't just think to use a pencil! Even I could have thought of that! What idiots!"
It lives in the same category as: "these politicians are all idiots, I could fix all the problems of this country myself..." and "I should be running this company instead of my idiot boss, he doesn't even know how to work the photocopiers as well as me!".
Some people are always ready to jump on anyone doing interesting things to make themselves feel better. It drives me absolutely nuts.
Don't even get me started on "Einstein failed school just like me, I must be a genius!". -
+Scott Manley Hi there, Can you give us a few example of uses of the Pen outside, Like in the vacuum?
The only thing I would think of would be someone taking notes of something that is written on a part or something. but even then, They might need Space paper or something.
It would be almost more efficient to communicate with someone inside and tell them to write what you are saying.
nonetheless, It might be useful if the cabin get unpressurised though. -
I volunteer at the San Diego Air and Space museum. There are a lot of older senior citizens that also volunteer there. Most have a Phoenix on their volunteer badges Signifying they were there when the fire happened and helped in the aftermath. They call it the Phoenix Flight. There's a lot of cool stuff to see including a capsule that was in space, Space suits and a lot of other aircraft ranging from the dawn of air travel to modern day fighter craft. If your ever in San Diego stop by!
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…To the Mun… Scott, you play to much KSP
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And Fischer never lost money on it, they only sold a couple of hundreds of pens to both Nasa and the Sovjets but the real money came from everyone else who wanted a "Space-pen" that was tested in space and had been to the moon.
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Interesting and funny)
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