Originally Posted by
popeye107
The US spent millions on a pen that worked in space, the Russians used a pencil; it would appear that that analogy is lost on you.
It’s always fun to demonstrate your superior appreciation of a situation and use a pithy statement to really drive the point home. It’s more credible if the pithy statement is factually correct.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/