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Reminds me of the time a bunch of people were fascinated with a pen that writes up side down and someone blurted out ‘pencils’. This was after some Seinfeld episode about a pen.
Is this the old joke about American astronauts spending $1M to invent a pen that writes in space while Russian cosmonauts just used pencils?
There's technically a reason why you wouldn't want to use graphite in space (the particles don't just fall to the floor, they float around in the air and get into places they shouldn't), but also NASA is notorious for going through ten different private contractors to do what a proper public sector organization would internalize.
Also, Pilot created that pen as a marketing ploy without having an official contract. NASA did pick it up, but IIRC, Pilot technically lost money on the project. Of course, marketing costs money, so they were fine with that.
Do you mean Fisher? Pilot is a Japanese pen company who doesn’t have anything to do with the space pen, as far as I know.
Yes, mixed them up.