Good thing it was a pen, if it had been some cheap #2 the tip might have
broken off and they all would have been screwed!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Adam [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 7:05 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Cc: 'MapInfo List'
> Subject: RE: MI WAPHGIS: how to kill the Caps Lock key
>
> Just a totally unrelated fast fact-
> When Buzz Aldrin was getting back into the lunar landing module and
> removing
> his suit, he accidentally knocked off a switch on a control panel. When
> they tried to use the switch and found the toggle missing, he used that
> same
> pen to stick in the resulting hole and activate the control.
> Ironic with the hoopla about costs that it likely saved the lives of two
> men
> on the moon...
> Jason
>
>
> _______________--
> > Reminds me of one of my favourite stories about technology,
> >
> > When NASA wanted a pen to write in space, they spent a million dollars
> on
> > developing the pen that wrote upside down
> >
> > Whereas the Russians just used a pencil....
> >
> > And in the American sequel, the product was later immortalised in pop
> > culture by Sienfeld - who made more money from the idea than NASA.
> >
> >
> > Robert Crossley
> > Trinity Software
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> > Parramatta Park
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> >
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> > Fax: 61-7-40314810
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> > web: www.trinitysoftware.com.au
> >
> >
> >
> >
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