A dear American friend who is always kidding me about Canada, sent a different sort of e-mail yesterday. As I said, he usually passes along stories about how boring Canadians are, etc. I know he does it in good fun as he loves this country of ours almost as much as his own. The proof is as follows:
“No wonder we Americans have financial problems; I guess we assumed we would never run short of money.
When NASA first planned to send astronauts into space, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens don’t work in zero gravity.
To combat the problem, the NASA scientists spent a decade and $1.2 Billion to develop a pen that works in space at zero gravity. It would also write upside down, under water, on almost any surface including glass and in temperatures ranging from below freezing to plus 300 C.
Confronted with the same problem, the Canadians used a pencil.”
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