Did NASA Spend Millions Developing a Pen When the Russians Used Pencils?
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The humble ballpoint pen is an item so ubiquitous the chances of you not having one near you right now are so low E.T could probably give you the percentage on his right hand. Few people realize just how much technology, craftsmanship and effort goes into creating a single pen- probably because you can buy 30 of them for a few dollars, only to mysteriously have them all disappear within a week.
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Big Dee Had you listened more attentively you would have heard him say that neither NASA nor the Soviets spent any money developing a space pen. It was developed in the private sector and the use of them by NASA popularised them. P.S. Simon is not a dipshit, but a very erudite man.
how do they allow water and food to fly around but not pencils?
im starting to wonder about this whole story
Try accidentally breathing in a few fragments of pencil lead and see if you still think it's a good idea to have pencils in zero gravity where the graphite fragments will end up floating around in the air. Sharp little fragments of graphite lodging themselves in your lungs is NOT fun.
At least food and water are sticky enough that they don't shed nasty little shards (and you don't bring things like the sort of bread that makes all the crumbs). Also, you can live without pencils. Living without food or water is a bit more problematic.
This is also why they're so picky about building capsules and so forth in clean rooms. Once it's been launched and is in orbit, any dirt and grit that may have landed on the floor during construction will float back up into the air where it will be breathed in by the astronauts. Yes, the capsule has filtration systems that will eventually clean out the air, but in the meanwhile it will be very unpleasant.
Keldor314 - "Sharp little fragments of graphite lodging themselves in your lungs is NOT fun." Personal experience? heh.
@@TheEudaemonicPlague I can't say I've ever had this happen, but I stand by my statement nevertheless. XD
Have you seen photos/ slow motion of pencil tips shattering? In space, of course, all that ends up floating around in the air waiting for its chance to be sucked into astronaut lungs or land in astronaut eyes.
"yes we're talking about the same pens that banks give away for free and you have already lost 3 of today" i feel called out.
I taken tons from my credit union and leave them at work....going to need to make another run, i don't know where they go.
Wait... your banks give away pens for free?
In my country, pens in banks are tied to the desks. They can't be taken...
@@opsatr credit union I should have said, not the greatest of pens either, they look like pencils but with a pen tip, and they didn't put the ink in a little plastic tube, they poured it into the wooden sides. Gotta be careful with these things.
Yeah, these pens are a mystery. I switched back to fountain pen a year ago and somehow I take a lot more care.
@@opsatr Yes, there are pens tied to the desks at banks here (USA) as well. That's supposed to make sure there is always a pen there for people to use. (But sometimes people cut the cords and take the pens anyway.) But one bank in particular, TD Bank, also gives away free pens.
Pencils in space: Graphite is a great conductor, so tiny pieces of it could get into electrical equipment and cause shorts. Wood is flammable, a big no-no after the Apollo 1 fire.=. A mechanical pencil solves the second problem, but not the first.
@@Stoum51 ohhhhh myyyy goooddddddd!!! You just blew my mind
sharpie bleeds tho
*J U S T T Y P E I T*
How about a chisel or some shit to carve stuff?
MGC 996 how about using a device? Like a digital note
why is he wearing his hair upsidedown.
Only fat guys and buff guys look good bald. Everyone else needs facial hair.
Red Doggo this guy doesn't look terrible.
Hahahaha😂
he reposted in the wrong neighbourhood
Richard Richardson vsauce
- Did NASA Spend Millions Developing a Pen When the Russians Used Pencils?
- No.
You are welcome.
Thank you lol. Fuckin 10 min video for a 1 second answer
-Is your comment helpful or meaningful in any way?
-No
You are welcome.
Either way using a pencil in zero gravity is retarded.
Ree
AnyHarmony it was quite obvious.
I was expecting “hey Vsauce Michael here”
Haha.. True this guy has almost same looks.
Yo right
Or were you (music intensifies)
lol me too 😂
Hilarious comments just feature a video on the comments alone you'll get millions of views and likes
Holy shit. So I could melt the balls down and make armor piecing bullets. Why isn't this a quest in Fallout?
Marcus Zyker you can't melt tungsten carbide without a specialized furnace
Epahleptik it's fallout, you can make military scopes out of random scraps.
Have you ever seen a ballpoint pen in Fallout? I don't think I ever have. Pencils all over the place if Fo3 and NV, but never a Biro. I think once or twice I've seen fountain pens, but not one ballpoint.
Possibly they simply never became popular in Fallout's timeline, for some incredibly stupid and asinine reason.
Marcus Zyker Or buy them. For less.
Use it as buck shot.
The graphite dust created by using a pencil in the oxygen rich environment of a space craft creates a fire hazzard
Should have just used crayons.
@@shr00mhead truuuee
Not necessarily oxygen rich, just a lack of gravity sends pieces flying into equipment and all
Prove it.
@cjhyde78 Ya. Astronauts.
The space pen is useable in more difficult scenarios like writing on something wet.
I found it useful for working overnight in sub zero temperatures
Yeah, like writing under whipped cream in the desert because there's no water.
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How do you know that? 😂
@@mautida9998 I used to work nights in New England, heavy truck road service.
Every pen I tried froze.
The space pen worked on the registration sticker on the front of trailers in the rain and cold and was more permanent than sharpie was
@@madmagyver9981 Nice thing to know thx
Indian movie 3-Idiots has a small scene where this pen is mentioned,
and one of the students asked "instead of spending millions of dollars on a pen, why didn't they just use a pencil?"'
then at the end of the movie, the professor answers "they didn't use a pencil because pencils can easily break, and the lead could float in zero-gravity, it could enter the engine and mess it up, or someone's nose, that's why they built a pen".
Sunny shah question why would they be writing around the engine
that, that makes complete sense. one reason alot of the stuff is stored in bags and stuff. so if it breaks apart it woun't make a damn mess.
We remember 1961.
Lol I remember that scene
Use a carbon copy paper
I worked as a foreman at the Fisher Pen Co., some forty years ago in the point production plant. The major difference in the pin point from gravity fed pens is the pen point on the space pen is actually a very small check valve. The ball seat is just slightly deeper than the ball circumference, which when placed against what you want to write on the ball moves back and allows the ink to flow around it and it writes. When you lift it away the ball moves back to the sealing position. The brass body of the pen is larger in diameter than that of a standard pen, it contain two chambers. The ink reservoir feeds the point directly and is always under pressure which causes the point to act as a check valve and stops ink flow when you're not writing. The second chamber contains nitrogen under pressure to push the ink to the pen point, so the pen can write in any position and in most environments. I believe the biggest market for these pens at the time were for computer plotters because they were very reliable and didn't stop working.
Why did the Suicide Hotline block my number?
They blocked me too. I just wanted to talk about my yeast infection.
QB Mac
That was wrong of them. I'll give you all the tips you need, buddy. To start with, cut with the tracks, not across.
Bruce Dunn You are so smart. What is a good material to make a noose?
It depends. You could use piano wire if you're okay with decapitation. If you don't want to be inconsiderate given the mess that leaves, you'll want something thicker. For the budget conscious, bedsheets will do in a pinch. There's a reason they take them from you in psych wards and solitary confinement. I've only been in one.
UBUNTU UBUNTU
They blocked *my* number too.
you explained all this extra stuff to get to the 10 minute mark. *NOBODY EACAPES THE 10 MINUTE AD REVENUE VIDEOS*
Raian Levy he did this before UA-cam changed the algorithm. it's for people who are really curios and like background information
Dutchik sure ;)
Go look at the earliest videos.
10 minute ad revenue is bullshit
Yeah, I want it all and I want it free.
Wait , I know this guy
He looks like Michael from vSauce but he's not
no. no he doesnt
Or is he?
He the VisualPolitckEn guy
He is Michael's british cousin.
Credulous RBT Dude I heard the music after I read your comment lol
This was also spoken of in the Indian movie, "3 idiots"
Anybody know what I'm talking about?
Hgvugv Gray meee
Hgvugv Gray No.
Hgvugv Gray yep
+Hgvugv Gray Yes I do. it was nicknamed "Virus Pen".
Hgvugv Gray no,I don't but I have watched the movie......
Like 3723 times
I got a Fischer pen for Christmas 15yrs ago, and it still works great to this very day. Even on wet paper, oil covered paper ( I'm a heavy duty mechanic so oil n grease are common on paper), and writing against a wall, or up right, never fails!!!
Todd Dougherty Same! I wish I could remember how much it originally cost.
Todd Dougherty same with a normal person
Pen
Todd Dougherty they are the the Nokia 3310 of pens
Todd Dougherty how the heck did the ink last for 15 years?!
*Mum* "I'm buying these 4 pencils for my son before he starts school again."
*Stationer* "That'll be $4,382 and 50 cents."
*Mum* "On second thought he'll just be a farmer."
Vsauce Jr. lookin ass 😂
Mini Vsauce
Captain Cat Vdip
Lil Sauce
too bad Vsauce sucks now. :(
Melvin Patrick Caresosa explain...
I couldn't see a link to the space pen in the description...?
same
Likewise
Here's the link: www.spacepen.com/
benjiosaur all you could see was space? :P
Here's another link to it www.spacepen.com/allpens.aspx just click on the pen and it will let you purchase it
i first learned about this in the movie - 3 idiots
Virus' pen
same
THAT MOVIE WAS A MASTERPIECE!
Finally, a 10 minute video with no midway ads!
Get adblock. No ads.... ever.
Simon, you should whistle more.
Good for you Babs
Michael Lee I died reading this wtf is my sense of humour.
"millions of taxpayer dollars" sounds a lot bigger of a deal than the equivalent "a few cents from each tax payer"
@Alexey Baal a few cents meaning a few cents for the pen project
Also the graphite could short out electronics
Yes fire is bad in a o2 enviroment
@@itsfox.gaming5572 didnt they stop using pure o2 after that fire that killed 3 astronauts?
@@Legitpenguins99 The pen that writes in space advertisement probably predates that accident. Apollo 1 blew up on 27 January 1967.
They wanted to stop using 100% o2 but could not. NASA spent over a year rebuilding the Apollo Command Module removing everything they could that would "Burn" in 100% o2. The module was designed to work in an air pressure of 5psi. They did use 20% o2 on the ground but after interring space had to go to 100% o2.
@Против Глобал Oxygen toxicity is only a problem at higher pressures. It's about the amount of oxygen you're breathing in with each breath. Astronauts can safely breath pure oxygen at the low pressures.
How did humans learn each others languages, as in the earliest humans exploring and stumbling across a neighbour?
Billy Roe well if somebody in a other language shows you a item like a paper then by him saying the name of it and pointing at the paper, they still use this today, good way of learning 😉
The Idiodyssey Then that culture would most likely have adopted the word their neighbors used
I'm not sure how often they learned neighboring languages. I'd imagine it was more fighting, conquering and then the victor forcing their language on others.
Billy Roe
there is a phenomenon observed where young kids playing together created there own language. its just something we do as humans.
you can google it to confirm it.
The Idiodyssey When somebody show you something completly new(completly alien) to you, they point to it and say the name of it right? Pointing and saying name is pretty much universal
Who would have thought that the history of the ball point pen could be so interesting? I really enjoyed that.
Robert Burnham GRAND DAD
+7 GRAND DAD You can't shout your own meme name you extra dip
Gavin The Crusade Plague Doctor Well Excuse Me, Princess!
What's the origin of the phrase "ladies and germs"?
Admiral Percy Groucho Marx of The Marx Brothers
The Rothschild's cook book, women are easier to manipulate and they spend more money on junk.
Admiral Percy Feminist theatre
"Ballpoint pens are amazing and I love using them" - Anne Frank
It was difficult to write in my diary under these conditions but thanks to ballpont pens, writing became my hobby.
She wrote in pencil.
@@karty9698 good job you have reddit. Yaaaaaaay. You're so fucking annoying.
Is the ballpoint for what i think its for annas franks use Of them
@@colinpovey2904 Yes, but her daddy finished the job using a ballpoint pen, seemingly unaware that she never used one and even couldn't have as they weren't commercialised during the war... Did anybody care? Does anybody when Hollywood picks up a novel and turns it around to make it more lucrative? Of course not. Money rules!
answer to this question at 3:03
colin gresty thanks I missed it
colin gresty you the real MVP
colin gresty why not just tell us
give this man a medal!
Best comment
*_In Soviet Russia, pen writes you..._*
Well, do you write the pen?
Was this supposed to be funny?
Krytern yes
@@Krytern yes
@papa joe stalin of Stalinist stanistan I don't like the real world knowing this....
To this day, the Fisher Space Pen is still, by far, the best pen I ever bought, one of my favorite tools, and one of my favorite things, in general.
did you guys know that the first chinese ballpoint pen in history was made ONE MONTH ago? they weren't able to manufacture the tips till this june. ***edit*** january obviously. not june.
Seth Brooking no, but having the means to build something and actually building it are 2 different things.
Seth Brooking "the first chinese ballpoint pen in history was made {in january}"
"They weren't able to manufacture the tips till this June"
Basically they were able to make the pen in june, but they didn't make it until January.
i meant january of course xD. oops.
technologic That makes you stupid for not providing evidence. And just for shit, I'm not a Chinese
Tutbrushy Tutbrus I didn't understand a word you just said.
Now im gonna break every empty pen open for the tungsten ball bearing
When I have to walk late night alone in dark streets, I'll keep a pen in my pocket... you never know.
@@toniodotcom umm... u know theres tactical pens for that reason right?
@@moboots No I don't. I was just trying to make a joke.
@@moboots I think you both forgot knives exist
@@flyhard3388 wat is this 1635? We have guns🤣
1:04 some might say that is the greatest engineering challenge behind the design of the ballpoint pen, ensuring that no matter how many a person might buy they'll all mysteriously vanish within days....
"Thousandths of a centimeter"....had to think this for a second and seems that the more proper notation would be hundreths of a millimeter, aka normal machining dimension. Cool!
Not sure mixing standard and metric is correct. Wouldn't it be a micron
(.001mm)? Are you a machinist? Just wondering. Gets tricky the nomenclature at that size.
@@benjaminsimmons3575 A thousandths of a centimeter is 0,01 millimeters.
@@tobiasschaffler1498 is it not 0.001mm?
Edit - I'm not sure now I think you may be right lol. My brain hurts.
@@TheMan-WithNoName A thousandth of a millimeter is 0.001 millimeters. A centimeter is 10 millimeters. 0.001 times ten is 0.01.
@@benjaminsimmons3575 10 microns
When you realise you're a cooler kid because you're writing with a pen.
All these use a previous invention. In 1827, a Romanian, Petrache Poenaru, invented the pen with reservoir of ink. Until then, writing devices were not autonomous and had to use a bottle of ink every few words. He has a fascinating life story that would deserve a video on its own. He was a highwayman like Robin Hood for the lower class, than a revolutionary and statesman. He came up with the idea after he was shot and arrested because the bottle of ink he was carrying leaked and left a trace. He later became a politician, a publisher of newspapers and even drew the flag of the country. :)
just use crayons...
Evan Russell now that is smart of you.
Crayons have the same "debris" breaking off problem.
The extreme temperatures could cause the crayons to become brittle and crack.
Game Addiction nerd
Evan Russell yes I am.
Damn! I have believed (and repeated) that story about the space pen for decades. That's egg on my face. Ah well it's good to finally know the truth.
Paul Jackson the fake story was meant to criticize the American system and show how smart the Soviets were. The real story shows the opposite.
lookoutforchris it was just a joke, but Americans can't get it as it is. LOLD for our Soviet fathers.
Not ripping on you, but that is the problem with a lot of people (and I admit myself from time to time), we repeat info without verifying if it's true.
Everybody does it. It's not possible to fact check everything and it was a fairly harmless myth.
That's what happens when you are dumbfuck who pretends to be smart. Next time, verify something before you say it.
"Polished using Diamonds" you mean those things that are completely worthless but companies control the flow of to make seem valuable and rare?
Everything is completely worthless, money is a concept. And yes they are actually very rare and expensive to mine please do your research diamonds are made very very very deep in the earth and extracting them is very hard and tedious.
Yeah those
So, I did the research. Gemsociety.org lists ten gems rarer than diamond. De Beers had a monopoly on the diamond supply chain well into the 80's, creating artificial value. That monopoly has been eroded, but controlling supply is still what creates value / pushes it to stupid levels. Yes, 3 months salary is too much for a freeking piece of crushed carbon.
Nandi Moozle They are now used for heat sinks in electronics
Machine made diamonds
I actually prefer Fountain Pens, I find them more comfortable to write with. Never liked using a ballpoint. (Please don't kill me).
Let the killing commence. 😉
(Joking of course if not obvious)
After using a fountain pen, ballpoints feel awful to write with. With the amount of writing I have to do at work, using a fountain pen actually makes it that little more bearable.
Rollerball y'all
Fountain pens would be a bad idea in space
Can you paint one half of your glasses the same color as your green screen just for a luagh
Noah Abraham lol
It’s a reflection
What makes me laugh is how you spelt laugh
Do you mean green?
@Michael "Ultimatte blue ... No other clue ... Deep down inside my brain I keep hearing that odd refrain..."
Banks don't give them away, people just drive off with the pen lol.
FatBurritoDog I robbed a bank then.
Not sure how true this story is but long ago, my father told me that one of the companies his company worked with needed those tiny ballpoint pen balls for some process with their machinery--not sure, something to do with leveling and the fact the balls could withstand intense pressure. Anyway, they contacted Bic to see if they could bulk order just the pen ball bearings.
Turns out they couldn't. Apparently the machinery that made the balls were part of the huge line of machinery that made EVERYTHING for the pen. So, the best Bic could do for them was to sell them refill cartridges with no ink in the plastic tube. The company in question then hired another company to build them a small machine that would bite off the tip of the refill cartridge to extract the ball bearing.
Crazy how "all in one" manufacturing will get you to the point that you can't simply obtain one part of a finished product and instead have to figure out a workaround.
And something even crazier is that this was without doubt cheaper than the alternatives
his forehead is brighter than my future. 😐😦
lmao
Benjamin Lozada Looks like your english isn't so right
KrazyKube Gaming sick burn dude
If that is his forehead, then my future would be pretty bright
Haider Ali noooo😭😭😭😭
Wow, now I'm really jealous of Mr. Bic.
What more epic a way to make a fortune than to empower people to be able to quickly, cheaply and easily take their intangible thoughts and physically record them on paper?
I never realized how expensive ballpoint pens were at their inception. Imagine how many things were written that might not have been if a person had nothing but a broken pencil or nothing at all to write down their thoughts, but because they had a pen they were able too. Call me easily impressed but, my mind is kinda blown.
We'd likely get the same pretentious, aristocratic vacuity people use to dismiss the "unworthy," that they just *OBVIOUSLY* weren't committed, dedicated, and persevering enough to succeed. After all, if a shitty writing utensil is the *only* thing keeping you from jotting down the next great novel, well, only someone *TRUELY* worthwhile suffers for their craft. Now if you'll pardon, my peacocks aren't going to watch themselves be fed the fresh tears of orphans and vagabonds, and we've just had a Gaylord of each arrive from East Sussex.
Actually, Bich's name was spelled B-I-C-H. He named his company Bic because he was worried people would associate his name with a certain expletive.
Notice he changed the spelling.
Maybe people were mispronouncing “Bich” ...
@Weedus
The ink in ballpoints doesn't fade as fast or smudge as easily as pencil, which makes then better for legal documents. If you're taking lecture notes you can use both sides of the paper. I had to stop doing that with pencils when I went back and discovered sandwiching graphite together made the notes illegible. Though I still use pencil for most notes because it's easily correctable, so they both have their uses.
@Weedus that's actually a pocket watch pocket it was actually invented for and not for coins just a fun fact
is this vsauce michael's son?
anthony plomaritis his daughter
I have a Fisher Space Pen in my EDC right now, because the model I've chosen doesn't leak in my pocket, and when closed is only about 4 inches long. It also works on the waterproof notebook I usually have with me, and when marking on not flat surfaces like walls or ceilings.
The reason NASA focuses so heavily on space pens is because graphite dust, graphite tips, and ink compounds are a flight hazard. It could get into the air filtration system and have some serious shit go down in the capsule possibly killing the crew and or ruining the mission or both.
its a reference from the movie called 3 idiots.
This " story " was around already when my mother was young, so like 30 years ago. I guess many movies have referenced it.
The answer is : if the pencil tip breaks, the broken tip can go up your nostrils, or other places in the space gravity. Which is why NASA created those pens. (I’m pretty sure I’m right, but pls tell me if I’m wrong)
The person who asked this is a Steve Earl fan,
"My names John Lee Petimoore, same as my daddy and his daddy before"
He learned a few things from Charlie don't ya know........
Better stay away from (*inhales deeply*)
COPPERHEAD ROAAAAAADDDDDDDD!
I was two years too late to the party with my comment
That was lovely. So much information! You should do a vid on RFID chips. Another item that was expensive to produce, but mass production brought the price down.
Should have just finger painted instead...
Eugene Sagan how can you paint in space it's a liquid
Eugene Sagan NO, the paint would be flying everywhere
Satire joke...
Let me just correct most of you all and prevent further ignorance, if possible:
General pens don't work *reliably* in space because the ink is filled at atmospheric pressure and Earth gravity.
In space, the pens we use contain pressurized ink; the Fisher model (the first pressurized model of its kind) used nitrogen to pressurize its cartridges, a practice which is still used today.
The reason for using pressure in pens, it seems, is that surface tension alone may not be enough to pull a long column of ink through a narrow tube. If there is a little bubble in the column of ink, the surface tension is broken, and there is no way to pull ink past the bubble.
The problem of a bubble in the column of ink happens on land, too, not just in space. People deal with it by just throwing the pen away. Since cheap pens cost less than 15 cents, someone may develop the habit of throwing away pens without noticing what he is doing. If a bubble develops, it is usually after the pen has had considerable use, so there is little complaint.
In situations of varying temperature and outside air pressure, unpressurized pens may develop a bubble more easily. Pressurized ink cartridges are a little more reliable, and cost the manufacturer only a little more.
What do you. Do for work?
@@PlantparenthooD1 He's obviously an astronut.
why does Bic make pens, lighters and razors? Do these things make sense together? please explain
ryanhatesgirls and what else does Bic make?
ryanhatesgirls why are Bic lighters so much better than other lighters?
I guess they're all disposable
Plastic...
They manufacture alloy metal and house it in a cheap casing. That pretty much describes a lighter, a pen, and a razor.
Why does this guy look like he's biting the corner of his lip when he speaks? It looks like he's speaking from the corner of his mouth.
Elvis Presley lmaof just realised XD
He's got a bit of tobacco hidin' under his lip there...
Elvis Presley fuck i cant unsee it now
wakenbaker-uk so you're saying he was in prison before?
No. He's saying he was in prison. In fact it's a known phenomena that once someone is released from prison they spread BS about everyone else being in prison.
Jack Klompus approves of this video.
Except it brings back memories of when his dental plate was broken.
Bich is latin for generosity
Thx My friends last name.
It isn't, though. Latin, I mean.
The family of Marcel Bich is from the French-speaking region of the Aosta Valley in Italy and was spelt "Bic" in the 18th century.
M'kay!
There was a reference to something in there? :)
"Eye seeking particles"
Eye seeking, the worst kind of seeking
Like Michael reeves’ eye seeking laser pointer
It's amazing to think there was ever a time when the air force was using fountain pens in airplanes...
And the time was just WWII!
I only watch this channel when im desperate for sleep
TheManSam92 lol me too
Yes
*When NASA spent millions on a ballpoint pen but you bought one for $1*
I got one of those pens for my birthday once
It was cool
Lapiz 1201 took a few seconds before I realised you were talking about the space pen, and not a biro
Lapiz 1201 how depressing
Gramps lied... Or else your the son of the NASA CEO...
PythonZz It has to be funny for it to be a joke.
I love how different Simon acts here compared to BB
Them: "Concerned about tiny fragments of wood and graphite"
Also Them: "Lets send up a pressurized metal tube full of ink!"
@Some characters aren't allowed Where'd you learn how to read? Its called a joke poking fun at a pressurized tube of ink, not a normal pen.
Pencils have wood and graphite.
You don’t want flammable objects and conductive materials in a space ship.
Also graphite and wood shrapnel in the eye sucks.
Derek Pink crayons would be good
@@BOT_Tom_frag wouldn't that almost be the same as a pencil and breaking
❤❤❤ My Fisher Space pens. I used to go through so many regular ball point pens. Now I just get a refill for my space pens. Love them. Love the feel in my hand. Love that I can use them on a lot of surfaces.
Virus's Pen xDD
Hyper Blu Lol i love that movie
3 Idiots!!!
I get it XD
😂😂😂good one
Don't recall Bic ball point in the early 60s in USA. My high school at the time required exam papers to be written, cursive no less, with fountain pens. The pen of choice was the the Parker ink cartridge pen, with boxes of 5 sold in the school store. The available ball point pens were disallowed because of leakage, smearing and quite possible a not ready for prime time position. About that time Parker pens introduced the "T- ball" pen with a microscopic texture on the ball for smooth even flow of ink...as well as a better ink. IIRC they also used an ink cartridge. The golden arrow clip visible while in a shirt pocket was a bit of a status symbol.
Still have my Fisher Space pen which works quite well.
where is the link for the pen?
Just go to Amazon. You'll find it under "Fisher Space Pen" or "Military Space Pen." They're the exact same product so price will be you're deciding factor, otherwise a coin toss will do. Just bear in mind that, if you keep one in your pocket during the summer, you'll need to keep something on you or find something to wipe the pen off with, as they have a tendency to leak during that time frame. Just the summer though; all other seasons it's perfectly fine.
The whole reason was to advertise that 'we did it.' We never, nor ever will 'do it.' Go to outer-space/ doesn't exist.
Now now. Go back under your bridge, troll; no one's going to feed you. That's a good boy! (o:Þ
You have acces to smart device connected to the internet, you are taking shit for granted, use the search engine
btw: with the time you spent commenting, you could have already looked it up lol
You're giving technology too much credit. Artificial intelligence doesn't exist, so no device can be correctly called smart.
my god, I remember pocket protectors. My pen leaked ALL THE TIME. They left puddles, smeared up to minutes after writing, and were a huge pain in the behind. This combined with a video I watched yesterday, talking about 'really old stuff' that I had in my childhood, and I can officially say, I'm freeking old.
I just use my Apple Pencil. P e a s e n t s
Nathan Niang I use my Gucci pen you peasant.
f8ait 😯😯😯
I use an cucci pen u nab is plast.... i mean diamond plated
I use a ruby and diamond plated pen lol
f8ait 👀
i like the song he uses. it's soothing and amusing
If the pencil point breaks it's just gonna go floating inside their special equipment
People probably don't think about how much astronauts have to write down stuff. So using a pencil results in using alot of pencil shavings , which cost alot to get rid of . So the cost almost equals out .
Big deal the Three Stoges had one that would write under whipped cream!
In Australia we call ball point pens Biros.
JayJay Jones maybe you do. WA mostly call them pens
JayJay Jones we do it in Italy too!
Really? I've just called'em "Penne/a", or "Penna/e a Sfera" ,but never had the need to say so.. just called'em "Penna/e"...
Ecco Dadols io ho sempre detto "la/le Biro"
Same in ireland
Even funnier, and more true than the pencil myth, is that at least for writing INSIDE spaceships, the space pen is entirely uneeded. Regular ballpoints, as it turns out work perfectly fine in zero G environments, as Pedro Duque tested them in 2003 after finding out the Russian space agency actually just used regular old ballpoints.
The extra resistance to temprature extremes and unpressurized environments offered by the "space pen" may be needed for EVA, but unless someone tests a regular ballpoint outside the ISS it's unlikely we'll find that out.
Also interesting; the wild temprature swings between sunlight and darkness in EVA can also mess up quartz watches since the battery can explode and LCDs can break, which is why the only EVA-certified watch is a mechanical (literally, clockwork) Omega from the 1960s.
"perfectly fine" is not really honest, if you think shaking your pen every so often and writing is fine then well- you do you.
Short answer, no.
Carl Siemens That should be a semicolon.
Unauthorized Genocide
Maybe it _should_ but it can be either.
I am hungarian and Bíró is pronounced as 'Beerow' (without pronouncing the 'w')
Fuck you. We say bairow and we're sticking to it, you Hungarian fuck.
@Shtormyy I never used to explain jokes before, but I now understand that my sense of humor generally relies on your familiarity with me, and that context is simply absent here. You see, this was a small correction of no consequence really (other than providing bourgeois ammunition for the pretentious fuckwit we all know). For this reason, it goes mostly ignored and can come off as quite irritating at the same time because of our stewed hatred of petty grammar correction and all pedantic shit by extension. This is a satirical take on the extreme brexit voter's mindset - positions so absurd that most reasonable people can't help but laugh them off. These are thoughts and opinions so laughable that they can't be parodies without being diminished. Moreover, the juxtaposition of the original comment and my first reply is also something that resonates with most Internet users. It is the expectation of fowl temperament and disproportionate outrage. I'm so sorry if I haven't sufficiently explained my thought process. I'm quite high and I find this difficult even when sober.
They stole that amount under the disguise of a space pen
Haven't read all of the almost five thousand comments yet so if I'm late to the party cut me some slack but the viewer who suggested the topic did two tours of duty in Vietnam and he came home with a brand new plan, he took the seed from Columbia and Mexico and plant it up a holler down copperhead road...
Take that, math teacher. I told you pencils were always superior
The pen doesn't sit properly in the case, please fix it!
You could tell he really stretched the video for that UA-cam ad revenue
TheCaucasianAsian Oh no making a profit off of a well done video
Rin Lee More than half of the video doesn't even relate to the title of the video. This could very well be made into two separate and more relevant videos.
TheCaucasianAsian I've got an idea... if you can do it better then go away... and send us a link to your super-duper ultra sexy channel.
iamedbytes all you do is crop out 6 minutes of the vid
TheCaucasianAsian no he didn't even put an ad in the middle so it being 10 minutes doesn't matter
ngl I don't like the fact that pencils can break but I have to say they last longer and the user can sharpen it until it has less than 1 cm of matter left
At the point it is impossible to comfortable write anything..
I already knew all the stuff about the space pen, watched the video anyway thinking it would be a waste of time. Ended up learning new shit about ball point pens. You should battle that slow talking vsauce and make him stop producing videos.
idk, for me Michael is more enjoyable to watch. Just like fountain pen is more enjoyable to write with.
zyxwvutsrqponmlkh Woah hold on there, battle? stop producing videos? If he's not negatively impacting anyone, in fact it's quite the contrary, don't bother him. Seriously, what's wrong with you grow up, competition is healthy.
Just because one things is good doesn't mean the other one has to be bad. They can both be good and exist for their different reasons.
*Pen
Nah guys, scorched earth, there can only be one. It's a zero sum game. Only so many possible viewing hours out there. Reminds me of an ancient Chinese proverb. The weak are meat; the strong do eat.
Wow! What a perfect example of capitalism in action
No space pen link as promised?
www.fisherspacepenstore.com/Fisher-Space-Pens/
Thanks
You are welcome
Brian Bowman I got one from some place now I just need to get to space
it astonishes me as to how half my pens can vanish within weeks of me buying them
Back when I was at first grade until fourth, I kept loosing my pen that my mom always repeatedly gave at me everyday and I've probably used 2000 of em lmfaoo
Well my names john Lee petty Moore, same as my daddy and his daddy before.
Glad I'm not the only one who caught that
No one:
Me: ACTUALLY I LOST 7, GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT
I love the fact that a lot of people don't realize the risk of what happens when carbon gets in contact with electronics, it conducts, it causes shorts, which is why we don't use pencils, but the Russians when they did yikes. Then some entrepreneur created a pressurized cartridge for ink and marketed it as a pen that writes in space during the peak of the space race and when space was the thing s p a a a a a c e
I used to have a space pen. They're pretty cool but, pencils...
Pencils are million times cheaper and useful
@@aerodynamic1440 but a million times more dangerous
gravity my ass
Yup
Given the narrow diameter of the ink reservoir in the average ball point pen I would have thought that they would work in the absence of gravity most of the time due to capillary action (so long as no gaps develop in the ink supply leading to the ball). The same would apply to felt tip pens. Any thoughts?
From what i remember when i learned about this back in school. They did not use pencils because they give on dust and they didn't want it to get in their lungs or ventilation system. You may have mentioned this but i dont feel like watching the video to find out.
Why didn't you explain about how the ball is pushed against the hole of the pen? Is it a spring loaded mechanism, or is it gravity and capillary action?