Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/14

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Subject: [Leica] There's something about German design ...
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Sun Jan 14 20:19:01 2007
References: <656135.76048.qm@web90411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45AA36AD.1040309@gmx.de>

At 08:57 AM 1/14/2007, Douglas Sharp wrote:
 >Bill,
 >On an amusing note, a recent TV commercial here showed a ball-point pen
 >designed and developed for NASA at a cost of millions, and able to write
 >in a vacuum and weightless environment - as a comparison they showed the
 >Russian counterpart - a graphite pencil. :-)
 >Like Ted Grant always says KISS.

Douglas

This pen cost NASA nothing.  It was a gift from 
the civilian manufacturer who simply wanted a 
NASA endorsement for their advertizing.

Marc


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