Thursday, September 17, 2009

Elegance

James Brown
20 All-Time Greatest Hits!
Polydor




The space program has done more for America than put a flag on the moon and give MTV the template for that bullshit award they give away each year. It's a high-technology industry which spawns good and services beneficial to mankind. Examples include Velcro, global positioning systems, and the integrated circuit.

Fountain pens do not work in space. When astronauts needed a writing mechanism that would work in a zero-gravity environment, NASA spent millions of dollars developing the ball-point pen. Today, you and I use ball-point pens all the time. No one is going to deny that the ball-point pen is a useful invention. We have all benefited from its creation.

When the Russians needed a writing mechanism that would work in a zero-gravity environment, they used pencils.

Sometimes, simpler is better.





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3 comments:

Papst Benedikt XVI said...

during the 40 anniversary of the moon-landing NASA admitted that the moon-landing was a hoax and if I'm not mistaken the story about the pen is also just an "urban legend". just sayin'...

No Funeral said...

True or not, it makes for a good story, doesn't it? Think of me as your post-modern death/thrash blogger.

Papst Benedikt XVI said...

I got a documentary on my HD were H. Kissinger himself and guys like V. Walters tell why they staged the moon-landing and that's an even better story but I agree on the pen/pencil story! I really wished it would be true!