I had always wondered about (in terms of application to engineering, not veracity) the story about how NASA supposedly wasted a bunch of money developing pens that could write in low gravity, while the Soviets just used pencils, and I then read something today that pointed to the Snopes article about the story. Of course, you knew it wasn't true, right? Or I suppose we should have. Oh, well. It does make me feel much better about the competence of American scientists and engineers, though.
(I am pretty certain actually I read this story last year, but had forgotten it since then. Swiss cheese memory, what can I say.)
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