It can't just be me? - Page 3

Blackstar · 02-09-2007, 00:15

I was contemplating this exact thing Aitch, i have come to the conclusion that they are claiming to be more advanced than those Japanese toilets what spray water up your bum.

Feek · 02-09-2007, 00:25

I wondered why they need a fancy LCD readout, surely these things are once only use, what's wrong with weeing on a stick and seeing what colour the line changes to?

lostkat · 02-09-2007, 08:42

Feek, I keep thinking your sig says "Constant Viagra". Just so you know

Treefrog · 02-09-2007, 15:33

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Originally Posted by Feek

I wondered why they need a fancy LCD readout, surely these things are once only use, what's wrong with weeing on a stick and seeing what colour the line changes to?

Exactly. A solution in search of a problem methinks. A bit like the Fisher Space Pen in that respect.

Mark · 02-09-2007, 16:41

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Originally Posted by Treefrog

A bit like the Fisher Space Pen in that respect.

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Nope - the Fisher Space Pen actually was developed to solve a problem - and, as the name might suggest, that problem was writing in space. The Russians used pencils (the obvious answer), but the Americans wanted pens and normal pens don't work in space as they need gravity to draw the ink to the nib. The Space Pen is pressurised so it works pretty much anywhere.
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Jonny69 · 02-09-2007, 17:29

You pedant

Treefrog · 02-09-2007, 20:45

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Originally Posted by Mark

[pedant]
Nope - the Fisher Space Pen actually was developed to solve a problem - and, as the name might suggest, that problem was writing in space. The Russians used pencils (the obvious answer), but the Americans wanted pens and normal pens don't work in space as they need gravity to draw the ink to the nib. The Space Pen is pressurised so it works pretty much anywhere.
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Pedant!

It's not as if theres a need to write indelibly up there though is it? Notes, etc can be written in pencil just as well I'd have thought. The need for something to write with that works in space was adequately solved by the Russian approach IMO, hence my point about a solution to a non-existent 'problem.'

Although possibly this expensive piece of technology could be just a peeing contest?

Feek · 03-09-2007, 08:50

I want a space pen now.

Belmit · 03-09-2007, 08:53

I have mine in my pocket right now! I regularly use it to write underwater, just because I can. Shame the paper never holds up.

Fayshun · 03-09-2007, 09:42

As far as I remember, Russians *didn't* use pencils, graphite dust from a pencil - gravity + delicate russian electronics = a bad idea.

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