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# I thought the first moon landing was a load of cock and balls.
Now I have proof.
NASA says so
(I helped save b3ta! Bingowings 2011 Businessman of the Year (Watford Branch), Tue 4 Mar 2003, 14:49, archived)
# You
are a genius
(Foss, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 14:52, archived)
# arf!
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 14:53, archived)
# Didn't anyone tell them
that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line?
(I helped save b3ta! dr_fonz, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 14:55, archived)
# i
read that as 'the shortest distance between two pints'
(I helped save b3ta! ablufia v0.43 - have your face drawn, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 14:56, archived)
# This is the same organisation that spent millions designing a pen that would work in space
and the Russians took pencils.
(I helped save b3ta! Bingowings 2011 Businessman of the Year (Watford Branch), Tue 4 Mar 2003, 14:56, archived)
# Aah
but did they take a sharpener?
(I helped save b3ta! dr_fonz, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 14:58, archived)
# hahaha !
did you ever see the interview with the first russian to walk in space ? when he got out his suit expanded so he couldn't get back in - solution ? he took his glove off - nutter !
(I helped save b3ta! ablufia v0.43 - have your face drawn, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 15:01, archived)
# A killjoy writes...
The space pen was developed by the Fisher company at its own expense (not NASA's). It was eventually used by both Soviet and American cosmonauts/astronauts.
Debunkage
(angrybernard, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 15:01, archived)
# Yer right
the pencil lead (graphite) would flake off, float about and eventually short the electrics or something. So they couldn't use pencils.
(bastien, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 15:24, archived)
# And then there's the Chinese solution to re-entry shields
Use wood - its cheap and doesn't fall off when hit by a lump of ice.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Nostril, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 15:29, archived)
# snigger
(avhbi, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 14:56, archived)
# Spent ages reading that
until I heard a snigger from behind me.
Wood, trees etc. :)
(I helped save b3ta! lemonhead, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 15:00, archived)
# I've
only just got that after resizing the window.
/arf
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 15:03, archived)
# that is
fucking funny.
(I helped save b3ta! mikeisbrill, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 15:07, archived)