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<p>[QUOTE="mrbrklyn, post: 1440785, member: 4381"]Do you know how impiortant the ball point pen is? I'll tell you.</p><p><br /></p><p>When NASA wanted to put Man on the Moon, something we sadly can not do today, they ran test flights and in the process had discovered to their horror that bvall point pens would not work reliably in zero gravity space! As a result, they put out a contract to solve this problem with 10's of millions of dollars investing into a new invention to over come this problem. Finally Paper Mate Pens came up with the "Power Point" pen, which amazingly works upside down and in zero gravity! </p><p><br /></p><p>After supplying NASA astronauts with reliable pen, and with Patents in hand, they then went out and marketed these wonders to the American public and made millions of dollars, putting hundreds of thousands of people to work and nearly creating a new industry.</p><p><br /></p><p>[video=youtube;JQCx_tP5Xe8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCx_tP5Xe8[/video]</p><p><br /></p><p>[video=youtube;mS07qS4NcVo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=mS07qS4NcVo[/video]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now when the Soviet Union faced the same problem. They were perplexed at the American solution. They couldn't spend hundreds of millions of dollars on their space program so they solved this problem in a unique way....they sent up pencils.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mrbrklyn, post: 1440785, member: 4381"]Do you know how impiortant the ball point pen is? I'll tell you. When NASA wanted to put Man on the Moon, something we sadly can not do today, they ran test flights and in the process had discovered to their horror that bvall point pens would not work reliably in zero gravity space! As a result, they put out a contract to solve this problem with 10's of millions of dollars investing into a new invention to over come this problem. Finally Paper Mate Pens came up with the "Power Point" pen, which amazingly works upside down and in zero gravity! After supplying NASA astronauts with reliable pen, and with Patents in hand, they then went out and marketed these wonders to the American public and made millions of dollars, putting hundreds of thousands of people to work and nearly creating a new industry. [video=youtube;JQCx_tP5Xe8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCx_tP5Xe8[/video] [video=youtube;mS07qS4NcVo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=mS07qS4NcVo[/video] Now when the Soviet Union faced the same problem. They were perplexed at the American solution. They couldn't spend hundreds of millions of dollars on their space program so they solved this problem in a unique way....they sent up pencils. Ruben[/QUOTE]
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