>Subject: Smart Americans....
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>Here is something I read on the net (ofcourse!!!)
>
>3 decades ago when US first started to put humans into space, they had one
>peculiar problem. Normal pens could not be used in outer space because of
>gravity, pressure and allied problems! So they decided to make a pen that
>could write in space. They pumped in $241 million to make the pen of their
>specifications.
>
>And boy, they sure did make it!
>
>Now the Russians too were facing the same problem. They used a pencil
>instead !!!
>:-)
>