(03.01.2003)                                                                                         

THE BEAUTY OF SIMPLICITY

 When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing

a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.

The Russians used a pencil.

Moral of the story:

Don't be so complicated. Most of times, something simple would do