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

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Subject: [Leica] There's something about German design ...
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sun Jan 14 23:53:58 2007
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Quite true - I didn't write that it cost NASA anything  :-)  
Douglas

Marc James Small wrote:

> 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
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
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