If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it .....

[Krynn72]

do you think the 1/6th earths gravity is enough for a normal pen to work on the moon, or would they still require one of those fancy pressurised spacepens?

or should they just use a pencil?

I remember seeing some movie where they came across this conundrum. They were all like "how mah pen goin tuh works?" and the captain guy was all like "take this, its called a pencil LOL"

I'm pretty sure it was a bad movie. Hence why I included a terrible accent in one quote, and 11 year old kid humor in the other.

 

[VirusType2]

You never know, the pen might end up in Uranus.

 

[Ennui]

that's like the joke about how NASA spent $10 million developing a pen that would work perfectly in zero gravity and the Russians just used a pencil.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

that's like the joke about how NASA spent $10 million developing a pen that would work perfectly in zero gravity and the Russians just used a pencil.

*sighs*

Fine, I'll repeat my rant:

Pencils can't be used either because of the danger of breaking off the tip and it ending up in someone's eye and of course anything wooden is avoided if possible on a space craft. Before someone came up with the space pen (which was not developed by NASA but by an independent inventor and did not cost $11 million or whatever) astronauts used grease pencils. The space pen was then used by both the American and Soviet space agencies.

 

[Danimal]

Or they can just grab a nail and carve messages into themselves like ****ing men.

 

[Vegeta897]

Crayons?

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Crayons?

No, astronauts can't use crayons either.



...cause that would be silly.

 

[Eejit]

Crayons?

That's what I said

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

A: Don't ballpoint pens make this all moot due to capillary action?
B: What if you tied the pen to your heavy moon boots? Certainly that would keep it from floating away due to the anti-gravity that affects all ink-dispensing writing implements.
C: Yay looking at the poll result, we're smarter than Americans. So I'm an American and I'm smarter than an American? Recursion, stack overflow!!!