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[kimba1]

funny

Consider These 3 Thoughts
 
                      (1) Zero Gravity
 
         When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they
 quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity.
 To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion
 developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, on almost any
 surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing
 to over 300 C.
         The Russians used a pencil. Your taxes are due
 again--enjoy paying them.
 
         
 
         (2) Our Constitution
 
         They kee p talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq
 . Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really
 smart guys, and it's worked for over 200 years. And, we're not using it
 anymore.
         
         (3) Ten Commandments
 
         The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments
 in a courthouse is that you cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou
 Shalt Not Commit Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full
 of lawyers, judges and politicians.  It creates a hostile work
 environment.

[Michael Tee]

1.  The zero-gravity pen was featured in a Seinfeld episode where Morty Seinfeld's retirement community neighbour Jack insists that Jerry "take the pen."  America's a much more litigious place than Russia, maybe somebody figured that if all the original records were in pencil, they could be altered as necessary to fit the requirements of a workers' compensation claim if one of the astronauts decided that  he or she deserved heavy damages for increased exposure to cosmic rays in the workplace.
2.  I had the same thought myself, why not give them the U.S. Constitution and tell 'em to get used to it and suck it up?  I understand that many Latin American countries have pretty much taken the U.S. Constitution, with necessary modifications, as the basis of their own.
3.  Someone once pointed out that seven out of the ten commandments are negative, indicating a dour and mistrustful opinion of the human race in general, not limited to any particular group.

[hnumpah]

3.  Someone once pointed out that seven out of the ten commandments are negative, indicating a dour and mistrustful opinion of the human race in general, not limited to any particular group.

Well, yeah, if you disregard the fact that the ten commandments were written for the Israelites.

[Plane]

   I would hate to have to sharpen a pencil in zero gravity , the shaveings would not be much nicer than itching powder.


   The Japaneese Constitution is an American product but is not a copy of any American Document , is the principal here that we should have spared the Iriquis the trouble of composition , or that the US constitution is one size fits all and perfected.


   I hired a lawyer that was a really nice guy once , so I know this is possible , this didn't work out well tho because the opponent lawyer was not a nice guy much.

[kimba1]

I know alot of not so nice lawyers
sometimes it helps sometimes it seriously doesn`t being not nice.
I know one attorney who gets p!$$off all the time.
he`s easy to beat because he focus too much at the wrong things.
I gotta admit he got a super great memory
impressed the hell out of me.
I`m told its a simple lawyer trick though.
someday i gotta findout how its done

[Amianthus]

                      (1) Zero Gravity
 
         When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they
 quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity.
 To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion
 developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, on almost any
 surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing
 to over 300 C.
         The Russians used a pencil. Your taxes are due
 again--enjoy paying them.

Claim: NASA spent millions of dollars developing an "astronaut pen" which would work in outer space while the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils.

Status: False.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp