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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

“Do me a personal favour. Take the pen!”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For decades these pens have been brought up to criticize wasteful spending, inaccurately. Fisher Price didn't even develop the pens for NASA, they were just a sales gimmick, and NASA didn't spend thousands of dollars each on them, they just bought them. Space flight was getting a lot of publicity back then, so products that related themselves to space were popular, like Space Food Sticks - tootsie-rollish snacks supposedly full of protein and nourishment. To me they tasted too much like raw flour. "Energy" of course was a euphemism for sugar.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also you DON'T FUCKING WANT GRAPHITE DUST FLOATING AROUND IN ZERO G

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Why not? I'm not well versed in the theme. Would it be flammable?

edit: just saw another post mentioning this: lack of gravity, enter floating in the electronic, causing short circuits as main risk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The theme is to pretend recently-learned information was available half a century ago, and also to ignorantly inflate its importance. It turns out exposure to graphite dust in large concentrations can cause respiratory problems (like any kind of dust), but the amount of graphite emitted into the air by pencil use is insignificant, even in zero gravity.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also your body doesn't do a good job of breaking it down either. Id imagine that in your lungs would suck.

I have a piece of graphite in my leg from 7th grade still. I'm 33.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a graphite stain in my palm from 8th grade and I'm 40.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Left handed or did you get stabbed too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Got stabbed by a friend at lunch.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Think of how revolutionary crayola twistables would have been for NASA?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So they could have infinite chunks of broken crayan floating around them. I can never not break those no matter how lite I use rhem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The air filters would capture it eventually. It's not like the ISS has dead air.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're assuming I wouldn't try to eat them all like floating packman

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, then the problem would be solved anyways!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fair enough. But I just needed someone else to have the imagery I had.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're the kid I stopped sharing my colours with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh shit wassup

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