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What is the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut?
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<blockquote data-quote="Aureus" data-source="post: 69257651" data-attributes="member: 353127"><p>Your moral is "Keep it Simple Stupid"</p><p></p><p>The problem, writing in space. Your story, NASA wasted money doing something that wasn't needed, making a space pen while the Russians just kept it simple, stupid, and used a pencil! There's a major problem with this story. It doesn't even convey your moral without lying to the audience. 'Keeping it simple, stupid' results in the continued use of pencils in space. Pencils in space are potentially deadly. They can destroy your sensitive equipment. They can ruin your experiments. Pencil lead and bits of wood floating around in 0 g just spell a bad day for everyone. They were greasing the pencils to try and solve some of this but the solution was not satisfactory to anyone, it was just dealt with.</p><p></p><p>But whats reality?</p><p></p><p>Reality is that NASA was using Pencils. Russia was using Pencils. They both recognized there were problems with pencils in space and wanted a better solution but couldn't justify spending the money to develop it. So a private company stepped in, developed the solution and then sold that product to both sides. Solving a significant problem for both sides. Whats the moral of this story? That private enterprise and ingenuity will provide the answer that government won't or can't.</p><p></p><p>I like my story and moral more. Its true, it makes sense and oh right its the truth.</p><p></p><p>But hey, if you want to lie to people with a story full of holes that's your business. Though I'm pretty sure lying is a sin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aureus, post: 69257651, member: 353127"] Your moral is "Keep it Simple Stupid" The problem, writing in space. Your story, NASA wasted money doing something that wasn't needed, making a space pen while the Russians just kept it simple, stupid, and used a pencil! There's a major problem with this story. It doesn't even convey your moral without lying to the audience. 'Keeping it simple, stupid' results in the continued use of pencils in space. Pencils in space are potentially deadly. They can destroy your sensitive equipment. They can ruin your experiments. Pencil lead and bits of wood floating around in 0 g just spell a bad day for everyone. They were greasing the pencils to try and solve some of this but the solution was not satisfactory to anyone, it was just dealt with. But whats reality? Reality is that NASA was using Pencils. Russia was using Pencils. They both recognized there were problems with pencils in space and wanted a better solution but couldn't justify spending the money to develop it. So a private company stepped in, developed the solution and then sold that product to both sides. Solving a significant problem for both sides. Whats the moral of this story? That private enterprise and ingenuity will provide the answer that government won't or can't. I like my story and moral more. Its true, it makes sense and oh right its the truth. But hey, if you want to lie to people with a story full of holes that's your business. Though I'm pretty sure lying is a sin. [/QUOTE]
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