{"id":85,"date":"2008-03-02T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-03-02T15:09:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T22:09:35","slug":"pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/02\/pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yunchtime.net\/misc\/astronaut_sm.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"244\" \/>When NASA first started sending up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.v-j-enterprises.com\/astro2.html\" title=\"Astronaut Conversations On The Moon\" id=\"KonaLink10\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"kLink\" style=\"text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static\"><font style=\"color: #ff0000 ! important; font-family: Arial,Sans-Serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static\" color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"color: #ff0000 ! important; font-family: Arial,Sans-Serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static\">astronauts<\/span><\/font><\/a>, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity.<\/p>\n<p>To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians used a pencil.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"15\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}