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Old 13th Jan 2012, 09:45
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Courtney Mil
 
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As it happened, they didn't need a pressurised pen. Whilst an ordinary ball point doesn't woek very well upside down on Earth, they work perfectly well at zero g. Pencils are not good in space as the bits of broken off graphite get into electical stuff.
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