Did NASA Spend Millions Developing a Pen When the Russians Used Pencils?
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Big Dee Had you listened more attentively you would have heard him say that neither NASA nor the Soviets spent any money developing a space pen. It was developed in the private sector and the use of them by NASA popularised them. P.S. Simon is not a dipshit, but a very erudite man.
how do they allow water and food to fly around but not pencils?
im starting to wonder about this whole story
Try accidentally breathing in a few fragments of pencil lead and see if you still think it's a good idea to have pencils in zero gravity where the graphite fragments will end up floating around in the air. Sharp little fragments of graphite lodging themselves in your lungs is NOT fun.
At least food and water are sticky enough that they don't shed nasty little shards (and you don't bring things like the sort of bread that makes all the crumbs). Also, you can live without pencils. Living without food or water is a bit more problematic.
This is also why they're so picky about building capsules and so forth in clean rooms. Once it's been launched and is in orbit, any dirt and grit that may have landed on the floor during construction will float back up into the air where it will be breathed in by the astronauts. Yes, the capsule has filtration systems that will eventually clean out the air, but in the meanwhile it will be very unpleasant.
Keldor314 - "Sharp little fragments of graphite lodging themselves in your lungs is NOT fun." Personal experience? heh.
@@TheEudaemonicPlague I can't say I've ever had this happen, but I stand by my statement nevertheless. XD
Have you seen photos/ slow motion of pencil tips shattering? In space, of course, all that ends up floating around in the air waiting for its chance to be sucked into astronaut lungs or land in astronaut eyes.
The idea of scavenging pens in the wasteland to make bullets should be a crafting recipe in a game.
No idea how that would work out but I love it
@@dragonfell5078 same. Probably takes a shitload of pens
Fallout new Vegas comes close to this idea
Collect 150 pens..
Make one 12 gauge shell
@@maxtremblay oooh my. I wish I knew how to mod fallout. There are an insane amount of pens in those games
Pencils in space: Graphite is a great conductor, so tiny pieces of it could get into electrical equipment and cause shorts. Wood is flammable, a big no-no after the Apollo 1 fire.=. A mechanical pencil solves the second problem, but not the first.
@@Stoum51 ohhhhh myyyy goooddddddd!!! You just blew my mind
sharpie bleeds tho
*J U S T T Y P E I T*
How about a chisel or some shit to carve stuff?
MGC 996 how about using a device? Like a digital note
"yes we're talking about the same pens that banks give away for free and you have already lost 3 of today" i feel called out.
I taken tons from my credit union and leave them at work....going to need to make another run, i don't know where they go.
Wait... your banks give away pens for free?
In my country, pens in banks are tied to the desks. They can't be taken...
@@opsatr credit union I should have said, not the greatest of pens either, they look like pencils but with a pen tip, and they didn't put the ink in a little plastic tube, they poured it into the wooden sides. Gotta be careful with these things.
Yeah, these pens are a mystery. I switched back to fountain pen a year ago and somehow I take a lot more care.
@@opsatr Yes, there are pens tied to the desks at banks here (USA) as well. That's supposed to make sure there is always a pen there for people to use. (But sometimes people cut the cords and take the pens anyway.) But one bank in particular, TD Bank, also gives away free pens.
Russians: Use pencils.
Western spies: We have *E R A S E R S*
Russian spies: let me introduce you to *THE SHREDDER*
jk they'd just blow up the space station
heels on ground
and vegetable peelers
@Linh Nguyen Its a fucking joke you moron. bet you're fun at parties
Meanwhile, the British just used semen as invisible ink in and since World War 2
why is he wearing his hair upsidedown.
Only fat guys and buff guys look good bald. Everyone else needs facial hair.
Red Doggo this guy doesn't look terrible.
Hahahaha😂
he reposted in the wrong neighbourhood
Richard Richardson vsauce
- Did NASA Spend Millions Developing a Pen When the Russians Used Pencils?
- No.
You are welcome.
Thank you lol. Fuckin 10 min video for a 1 second answer
-Is your comment helpful or meaningful in any way?
-No
You are welcome.
Either way using a pencil in zero gravity is retarded.
Ree
AnyHarmony it was quite obvious.
He's like my internet friend who is a doctor, engineer, pilot and many more
Nice
Johnny
Ah, Steve Wolfe? I get it...
Just like jhony sins
yup he look like my mum's therapist, man l like that guy he so nice
"The pen is mightier than the sword"
Well, the ball is made up of tungsten carbide.
can your sword do this?
*throw pen thru wall
Armor piercing pens! Loaded and ready to fire
Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. Bring a pen instead.
*hugs my ballpoint pen* I always knew you were special
just the tip, the rest is garbage
*pen explodes after hugging it too hard*
^oof
@@sfsaviation how dare you mock my ball pen
len kagamine i mocked the pen, not the ball
ball is god
Pencil: **Breaks**
Russian in space: BLYAT
@jabberwolf true but..*again in space shavings would clog important things*
Space Station: *Explode*
accurate
"AH SUKA-"
**everyone fucking dies**
*БЛЯТЬ*
Yes, the graphite used in pencils is electrically conductive and can cause fires. I have worked on industrial mixing machines which were mixing graphite with other secret ingredients and when the powder leaked out of the mixer and into the motor we would have shorts and small fires. So yeah, pencils in space might not be the best idea.
Clean rooms are another place where pencils are a no-no. The tiny dust particles they create, either in the air or eventually deposited on masks, can ruin a lithographic exposure onto silicon.
I think that they'd also be concerned about the astronauts breathing in fragments of graphite and wood
Sean Nanoman or just use crayons..
+Sean Nanoman Early athlon processors used these little wire bridges that were selectively cut or left intact at the factory after binning the chips to permanently set the multiplier they would use. Among overclockers it was common to use a graphite pencil to reconnect those bridges and allow a different multipler to be set.
Sean Nanoman a
I was expecting “hey Vsauce Michael here”
Haha.. True this guy has almost same looks.
Yo right
Or were you (music intensifies)
lol me too 😂
Hilarious comments just feature a video on the comments alone you'll get millions of views and likes
The graphite dust created by using a pencil in the oxygen rich environment of a space craft creates a fire hazzard
Should have just used crayons.
@@shr00mhead truuuee
Not necessarily oxygen rich, just a lack of gravity sends pieces flying into equipment and all
Prove it.
@cjhyde78 Ya. Astronauts.
The space pen is useable in more difficult scenarios like writing on something wet.
I found it useful for working overnight in sub zero temperatures
Yeah, like writing under whipped cream in the desert because there's no water.
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How do you know that? 😂
@@mautida9998 I used to work nights in New England, heavy truck road service.
Every pen I tried froze.
The space pen worked on the registration sticker on the front of trailers in the rain and cold and was more permanent than sharpie was
@@madmagyver9981 Nice thing to know thx
I got a Fischer pen for Christmas 15yrs ago, and it still works great to this very day. Even on wet paper, oil covered paper ( I'm a heavy duty mechanic so oil n grease are common on paper), and writing against a wall, or up right, never fails!!!
Todd Dougherty Same! I wish I could remember how much it originally cost.
Todd Dougherty same with a normal person
Pen
Todd Dougherty they are the the Nokia 3310 of pens
Todd Dougherty how the heck did the ink last for 15 years?!
I worked as a foreman at the Fisher Pen Co., some forty years ago in the point production plant. The major difference in the pin point from gravity fed pens is the pen point on the space pen is actually a very small check valve. The ball seat is just slightly deeper than the ball circumference, which when placed against what you want to write on the ball moves back and allows the ink to flow around it and it writes. When you lift it away the ball moves back to the sealing position. The brass body of the pen is larger in diameter than that of a standard pen, it contain two chambers. The ink reservoir feeds the point directly and is always under pressure which causes the point to act as a check valve and stops ink flow when you're not writing. The second chamber contains nitrogen under pressure to push the ink to the pen point, so the pen can write in any position and in most environments. I believe the biggest market for these pens at the time were for computer plotters because they were very reliable and didn't stop working.
wow, you actually made ball point pens interesting for 10 minutes.
Confused Raccoon gotta get that 10 mins
Next is cat litter. It's a three part series, each topic being an episode 60 minutes long: purchase, usage and disposal. Epic!
Cat litter in space ? LOL ! Space cats !!!
Some people have a gift, to make anything sound interesting and as so, they are able to teach others, almost unnoticed by the listener :)
Then again, some people can take on the most interesting subjects in the world, but make them sound like reading the phonebook, when stuck in the biggest traffic jam ever, making one minute seem like 10!
I become bored very easily and I hate it! It's annoying!
Sometimes You just have no choice, but to listen, while inside Your head, You are thinking, that the only thing You can do, is to hit Your head against the wall so hard, that You knock Yourself out, hoping, that the person has stopped talking in the mean time..
I'm sure, You can already tell, that I do not have that gift! lol! :)
Just trying to get that 10 minute ad revenue
This was explained by "Virus" in "3 Idiots". 😂😂😂
Lmfaooo I was gonna say the same
Lol same
Lol same 😅😆😁😂
Yup🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Indian movie 3-Idiots has a small scene where this pen is mentioned,
and one of the students asked "instead of spending millions of dollars on a pen, why didn't they just use a pencil?"'
then at the end of the movie, the professor answers "they didn't use a pencil because pencils can easily break, and the lead could float in zero-gravity, it could enter the engine and mess it up, or someone's nose, that's why they built a pen".
Sunny shah question why would they be writing around the engine
that, that makes complete sense. one reason alot of the stuff is stored in bags and stuff. so if it breaks apart it woun't make a damn mess.
We remember 1961.
Lol I remember that scene
Use a carbon copy paper
*Mum* "I'm buying these 4 pencils for my son before he starts school again."
*Stationer* "That'll be $4,382 and 50 cents."
*Mum* "On second thought he'll just be a farmer."
Video suggestion: Who was Jack of all trades?
Jack is literally just an old term meaning man
thus, man of all trades
Bruce Campbell, in his under-appreciated 90s cult classic TV series.
Jason Blalock he is quite famous and much appreciated
Isvoor +
Isvoor that actually is a good question lol
Wait , I know this guy
He looks like Michael from vSauce but he's not
no. no he doesnt
Or is he?
He the VisualPolitckEn guy
He is Michael's british cousin.
Credulous RBT Dude I heard the music after I read your comment lol
Fun Fact: The ball of a ballpoint pen was modeled after his perfectly
round head, which you can only see imperfections in if you use an
electron microscope.
I was confused as to why the English side of my family called pens "Biros" & learned quite a bit about the history of the ball point. Now with this video I have even more useless trivia about pens tucked away just waiting to be unleashed on some poor soul in the future.
I've seen an interview with Russian spacemen and engineers, discussing this myth. And the answer was they used markers like felt-pen. Not pencils, because of air filtering problem, like you've mentioned.
When this video came to my suggestion, I immediately thought of an Indian movie named '3 Idiots'
Mushfique Hasan favorite bollyhood movie of all time
My favourite Bollywood movie
Same
me to.. hahah
Brings back some memories
The voices of half a dozen Hungarian friends screamed "Beer-oh" in my head every time you said "Bye-row"
On point my friend... I got cringe worthy of a lifetime from this video, but the information he mentioned made it bearable :D
I'm Romanian, so i know the feeling. Native English speakers just don't have the muscle memory to pronounce words from other languages properly. Conversely, non-native English speakers have some really crappy accents when speaking English.
(CZ, not HU) I also suspect "György" is "Dh-yer-dh", innit?
Steve Evans false, half a dozen is 2/3 of their audience.
Beer-oh is easy enough for a Brit.
The only issue would be the rolled R (which we don't do), but doesn't take too much to learn. Simon lives in Praque, so I'm sure he must have learnt how to roll the R by now.The Czech's have a whole evil R of their own too... Ř
Oh well I guess it's better than some of the Polish word attempts... Having a letter that looks like an L, but pronounced like a W is an evil trick... and a W that's a V of course (but we're often wise to that trick thanks to endless attempt to make jokes about to Germans).
Uneducated English speakers attempts at pronouncing Wrocław and Łódź are pretty amusing, often heard in football reports.
Łódź is particularly sneaky, it looks so easy to say (or be vaguely close). How could 4 letters be hard?... Lods... Nope... Woodgz would be more like it. Wrocław is Vrotswav.
At least Hungarian words look so totally terrifying a non-native will just give up and point!
Luckily for the non-native speakers with "crappy" accents, we're kind of used to them. Having educated the world in our language we get to hear all versions of it. Even being spoken by an American it's still understandable! Some of the Indian call centres used by UK companies can be a bit of a challenge, unfortunately we feel it rude to say "I'm sorry, I don't understand a word you are saying", and just endure the call hoping to work it out eventually! lol!
i first learned about this in the movie - 3 idiots
Virus' pen
same
THAT MOVIE WAS A MASTERPIECE!
Holy shit. So I could melt the balls down and make armor piecing bullets. Why isn't this a quest in Fallout?
Marcus Zyker you can't melt tungsten carbide without a specialized furnace
Epahleptik it's fallout, you can make military scopes out of random scraps.
Have you ever seen a ballpoint pen in Fallout? I don't think I ever have. Pencils all over the place if Fo3 and NV, but never a Biro. I think once or twice I've seen fountain pens, but not one ballpoint.
Possibly they simply never became popular in Fallout's timeline, for some incredibly stupid and asinine reason.
Marcus Zyker Or buy them. For less.
Use it as buck shot.
I will never look at a ballpoint pen the same ever again.
Daniel Stans I will
putnamehere hold ma doodle maybe a glance
Because everyone knows that Velcro was given to humanity by a Vulcan.
Sam Cowden reference dude!
They should have given us a couple of Warp Coils instead :)
Sam Cowden hells yeah fuckin pool sharks
Excuse me I like to him as hephaestus
Velcro was invented in Manchester New Hampshire I drive by the original company every day
You have other problems to worry about if the temp is 200 celcius.
On the upside you could write those problems down?
@@b0zz1380y BIG BRAIN
😄😄
"the ball also seals the ink" tell that to my white shirt now covers with black ink
The problem is your body heat causes a change in pressure in the ink and causes it to press out. Some times it shoots out the front, and sometimes I've seen it escape out the back or the ball holds and it goes out though the seem.Just don't keep it in your pockets
smart rey covered*
smart rey see pocket protector
smart rey the ink is a liquid and a solid to! and if it heats up to much it can spill out... like in ur pocket
So why do they have a pocket clip?
"u-BIC-quitous" ball points.
Please.... Stop
wholeNwon
You ain't write.
What, do I have to put a cap on it. You're clipping my wings, not to put too fine a point on it. It was a barrel of laughs.
That' s cursive comment. I was just reading from my script.
wholeNwon
I might have an inkling about what you're saying.
I couldn't see a link to the space pen in the description...?
same
Likewise
Here's the link: www.spacepen.com/
benjiosaur all you could see was space? :P
Here's another link to it www.spacepen.com/allpens.aspx just click on the pen and it will let you purchase it
WHO HERE IS THINKING ABOUT THE 3 IDIOTS SCENE? 😂😂
OMFG I thought I was the only one!!!
@@gettrolled1016 Haha...If you are an Indian you basically cannot miss this scene 😂😂
Hahaha lol it is me. Why didn't they ues pencils
@@eliteopfreefire5629 McDonald's Burgers weakens brain power bro 😂🤣🤣🤣
There it is, this comment about three idiots.
hey vsauce, Michael here
Meh Heh hey nova
Meh Heh i thought james killed u?
Zani Puppyrhino I killed no one
that is comment awards worthy.
Thought the same thing lol
So, one of the famous "Three Idiots" movie legend collapsed. 🖊 VS ✏️ 😂😂😂😂😂
Website MaKer wait, didn't the principal of that college specifically mention that at like the end of the movie or something.
yes he did. So there is nothing wrong with the movie. (well, at least nothing concerning that urban myth)
lol
Virus pen 😂
Spawn A FOR APPLE B FOR BOL
Finally, a 10 minute video with no midway ads!
Get adblock. No ads.... ever.
"millions of taxpayer dollars" sounds a lot bigger of a deal than the equivalent "a few cents from each tax payer"
@Alexey Baal a few cents meaning a few cents for the pen project
Also the graphite could short out electronics
Yes fire is bad in a o2 enviroment
@@itsfox.gaming5572 didnt they stop using pure o2 after that fire that killed 3 astronauts?
@@Legitpenguins99 The pen that writes in space advertisement probably predates that accident. Apollo 1 blew up on 27 January 1967.
They wanted to stop using 100% o2 but could not. NASA spent over a year rebuilding the Apollo Command Module removing everything they could that would "Burn" in 100% o2. The module was designed to work in an air pressure of 5psi. They did use 20% o2 on the ground but after interring space had to go to 100% o2.
@Против Глобал Oxygen toxicity is only a problem at higher pressures. It's about the amount of oxygen you're breathing in with each breath. Astronauts can safely breath pure oxygen at the low pressures.
You forgot one important factor regarding pencils in space. Pencils don't use lead, they use graphite and graphite conducts electricity very well. Also due to the high level of oxygen onboard a spaceship, a spark caused by a graphite fragment shorting out an electrical connection could cause a fire fairly easy. That and the fact that a piece of pencil in your eye is highly unpleasant are the reasons for not using pencils in space.
MrSkyl1ne Wow, nice. I didn't think about that.
Yep. You have to sharpen them and they break. It's just too messy and unsafe to have all that floating around.
That's why. There's a fucking reason we didn't use it.
He mentioned everything you just said smart ass
All this "space dust"...don't they pump the air through the cabin, scrubbing the CO2 and passing it through a filter? Seems any graphite dust would soon be trapped and filtered.
Pencil vs pen in space
*3 idiots has entered the chat*
Nigga
You indian? 🙏
Right on.
Pencil, pen, and space entered the chat..............
...?
@@ericb8046 nope 3 idiots is a bollywood movie
how did you make a video about pens so interesting. holy shit
We try really, really hard. :-)
probably the same way that they managed to stretch it out to 10:02
Never considered the possible issue with using pencils. Learning is a very humbling process.
welcome to doing anything in space. if you think this one idea will work well guess what there is this tiny detail that has the possible of killing all of astronauts in any number of horrible ways.
Imagine a tiny piece of electrical conducting graphite pencil lead getting into any of the many electrical circuits in a space station or capsule.
Late but why not just use a knife? Couldnt they write with scratches? Did anyone think to just bring something to scratch and use that? Or they could just scratch one rock on another rock. Clearly wasnt enough out of the box thinking. Didn't consider many options probably. I wonder if anyone brought up scratching something could have been their solution.
@@nerdnairbnordnirbu9044 Take your time and think about why your out of box thinking is a terrible idea. I know you can do it.
@@bastion8804 😂😂😂
Vsauce Jr. lookin ass 😂
Mini Vsauce
Captain Cat Vdip
Lil Sauce
too bad Vsauce sucks now. :(
Melvin Patrick Caresosa explain...
To this day, the Fisher Space Pen is still, by far, the best pen I ever bought, one of my favorite tools, and one of my favorite things, in general.
This was also spoken of in the Indian movie, "3 idiots"
Anybody know what I'm talking about?
Hgvugv Gray meee
Hgvugv Gray No.
Hgvugv Gray yep
+Hgvugv Gray Yes I do. it was nicknamed "Virus Pen".
Hgvugv Gray no,I don't but I have watched the movie......
Like 3723 times
Actually In Russia we have the same legend.
My parents told me the same story 15 years ago.
Family Dog It was popularized by M. Zadornov. Not saying it didn't exist before that.
Family Dog there is even an Indian movie about it
Zadornov is feeding worms at the moment. Finally does somethng useful.
saamohod >being so triggered by a comic
Internet, what are u doing...
Should’ve just typed into a phone. I don’t know why they didn’t do that
*_In Soviet Russia, pen writes you..._*
Well, do you write the pen?
Was this supposed to be funny?
Krytern yes
@@Krytern yes
@papa joe stalin of Stalinist stanistan I don't like the real world knowing this....
"Thousandths of a centimeter"....had to think this for a second and seems that the more proper notation would be hundreths of a millimeter, aka normal machining dimension. Cool!
Not sure mixing standard and metric is correct. Wouldn't it be a micron
(.001mm)? Are you a machinist? Just wondering. Gets tricky the nomenclature at that size.
@@benjaminsimmons3575 A thousandths of a centimeter is 0,01 millimeters.
@@tobiasschaffler1498 is it not 0.001mm?
Edit - I'm not sure now I think you may be right lol. My brain hurts.
@@TheMan-WithNoName A thousandth of a millimeter is 0.001 millimeters. A centimeter is 10 millimeters. 0.001 times ten is 0.01.
@@benjaminsimmons3575 10 microns
Who would have thought that the history of the ball point pen could be so interesting? I really enjoyed that.
Robert Burnham GRAND DAD
+7 GRAND DAD You can't shout your own meme name you extra dip
Gavin The Crusade Plague Doctor Well Excuse Me, Princess!
1:04 some might say that is the greatest engineering challenge behind the design of the ballpoint pen, ensuring that no matter how many a person might buy they'll all mysteriously vanish within days....
Can you paint one half of your glasses the same color as your green screen just for a luagh
Noah Abraham lol
It’s a reflection
What makes me laugh is how you spelt laugh
Do you mean green?
@Michael "Ultimatte blue ... No other clue ... Deep down inside my brain I keep hearing that odd refrain..."
Funny enough, I had my Space Pen in my hand when this video popped up on a playlist. Got tired of losing a bunch of pens so I bought a pricier one that I surely wouldn't want to lose because it was expensive. I've had it my whole career so far. Love this thing.
you explained all this extra stuff to get to the 10 minute mark. *NOBODY EACAPES THE 10 MINUTE AD REVENUE VIDEOS*
Raian Levy he did this before TH-cam changed the algorithm. it's for people who are really curios and like background information
Dutchik sure ;)
Go look at the earliest videos.
10 minute ad revenue is bullshit
Yeah, I want it all and I want it free.
I have this pen! It's really great! I never have to worry about it not working because it works everywhere no matter what!
until there is no more ink.
Well, yeah, that's the one done side. It still run out of ink like every other pen. But it does last three times as long, so I don't have to go get a refill as much.
Yup. I've used this pen in -25c and it's flawless.
"Polished using Diamonds" you mean those things that are completely worthless but companies control the flow of to make seem valuable and rare?
Everything is completely worthless, money is a concept. And yes they are actually very rare and expensive to mine please do your research diamonds are made very very very deep in the earth and extracting them is very hard and tedious.
Yeah those
So, I did the research. Gemsociety.org lists ten gems rarer than diamond. De Beers had a monopoly on the diamond supply chain well into the 80's, creating artificial value. That monopoly has been eroded, but controlling supply is still what creates value / pushes it to stupid levels. Yes, 3 months salary is too much for a freeking piece of crushed carbon.
Nandi Moozle They are now used for heat sinks in electronics
Machine made diamonds
Hey guys, I'm hungarian, and "Bíró" means "Judge", and it's spelled "Beeroo".
You're welcome :D
A stand-out episode to me. Well done.
Thanks :-)
Graphite is what pencils are based on. Graphite is also a conductor. The last thing you need floating around inside a space vehicle are conducting particulates...
The Russians used GREASE pencils, not at all the same thing.
Why didn't we use the same thing?
Now im gonna break every empty pen open for the tungsten ball bearing
When I have to walk late night alone in dark streets, I'll keep a pen in my pocket... you never know.
@@toniodotcom umm... u know theres tactical pens for that reason right?
@@moboots No I don't. I was just trying to make a joke.
@@moboots I think you both forgot knives exist
@@flyhard3388 wat is this 1635? We have guns🤣
he looks like polite and educated version of Jhonny Sins😂🤣
Sins an astronaut.....
Simon, you should whistle more.
Good for you Babs
Michael Lee I died reading this wtf is my sense of humour.
How did humans learn each others languages, as in the earliest humans exploring and stumbling across a neighbour?
Billy Roe well if somebody in a other language shows you a item like a paper then by him saying the name of it and pointing at the paper, they still use this today, good way of learning 😉
The Idiodyssey Then that culture would most likely have adopted the word their neighbors used
I'm not sure how often they learned neighboring languages. I'd imagine it was more fighting, conquering and then the victor forcing their language on others.
Billy Roe
there is a phenomenon observed where young kids playing together created there own language. its just something we do as humans.
you can google it to confirm it.
The Idiodyssey When somebody show you something completly new(completly alien) to you, they point to it and say the name of it right? Pointing and saying name is pretty much universal
Wow, now I'm really jealous of Mr. Bic.
What more epic a way to make a fortune than to empower people to be able to quickly, cheaply and easily take their intangible thoughts and physically record them on paper?
I never realized how expensive ballpoint pens were at their inception. Imagine how many things were written that might not have been if a person had nothing but a broken pencil or nothing at all to write down their thoughts, but because they had a pen they were able too. Call me easily impressed but, my mind is kinda blown.
We'd likely get the same pretentious, aristocratic vacuity people use to dismiss the "unworthy," that they just *OBVIOUSLY* weren't committed, dedicated, and persevering enough to succeed. After all, if a shitty writing utensil is the *only* thing keeping you from jotting down the next great novel, well, only someone *TRUELY* worthwhile suffers for their craft. Now if you'll pardon, my peacocks aren't going to watch themselves be fed the fresh tears of orphans and vagabonds, and we've just had a Gaylord of each arrive from East Sussex.
Actually, Bich's name was spelled B-I-C-H. He named his company Bic because he was worried people would associate his name with a certain expletive.
Notice he changed the spelling.
Maybe people were mispronouncing “Bich” ...
@Weedus
The ink in ballpoints doesn't fade as fast or smudge as easily as pencil, which makes then better for legal documents. If you're taking lecture notes you can use both sides of the paper. I had to stop doing that with pencils when I went back and discovered sandwiching graphite together made the notes illegible. Though I still use pencil for most notes because it's easily correctable, so they both have their uses.
@Weedus that's actually a pocket watch pocket it was actually invented for and not for coins just a fun fact
"Ballpoint pens are amazing and I love using them" - Anne Frank
It was difficult to write in my diary under these conditions but thanks to ballpont pens, writing became my hobby.
She wrote in pencil.
@@karty9698 good job you have reddit. Yaaaaaaay. You're so fucking annoying.
Is the ballpoint for what i think its for annas franks use Of them
@@colinpovey2904 Yes, but her daddy finished the job using a ballpoint pen, seemingly unaware that she never used one and even couldn't have as they weren't commercialised during the war... Did anybody care? Does anybody when Hollywood picks up a novel and turns it around to make it more lucrative? Of course not. Money rules!
The person who asked this is a Steve Earl fan,
"My names John Lee Petimoore, same as my daddy and his daddy before"
He learned a few things from Charlie don't ya know........
Better stay away from (*inhales deeply*)
COPPERHEAD ROAAAAAADDDDDDDD!
I was two years too late to the party with my comment
How do you represent decimal percentages on your right hand?
Why did the Suicide Hotline block my number?
They blocked me too. I just wanted to talk about my yeast infection.
QB Mac
That was wrong of them. I'll give you all the tips you need, buddy. To start with, cut with the tracks, not across.
Bruce Dunn You are so smart. What is a good material to make a noose?
It depends. You could use piano wire if you're okay with decapitation. If you don't want to be inconsiderate given the mess that leaves, you'll want something thicker. For the budget conscious, bedsheets will do in a pinch. There's a reason they take them from you in psych wards and solitary confinement. I've only been in one.
UBUNTU UBUNTU
They blocked *my* number too.
only an american can come up with a "thousandth of a centimetre" lmao we have also things called millimetres and micrometres
yea but do you use those units in dat-to-day convos ?
@@mahemaatv1600 depends on what your average day looks like, if you are a metalworker you will probably use those units quite a bit, also millimeters is pretty much common knowledge in the metric world
Bruh completely non american. no one uses centimetres, you should know we use are self esteem, because it is usually small enough.
as far as I can see in my 0.2 seconds of research there isn't a metric unit for 10^-5 so... the closest is a micrometer at 10^-6 meters so I guess you could say 10 micrometers.
I do use millimeters quite often, and by that I mean whenever I use a ruler and the number isn't exact or as some kind of hyperbole
pluus this is all north american shit, not all Americans y'know? brazil is american for example and we don't even talk English bare alone say something like "thousandth of a centimeter" lmao
You know, when you think about all the things that a person from the 18th century would be amazed by in our time, ball point pens do not come to mind. But it would seem like magic to them. What's that old A.C. Clarke quote? Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.
The future is now!
You have a point. We live in a time where the pace of technological development got insane. We get used to it but if you really think about it, it’s incredible. I’m typing this on a handheld device that would be considered a supercomputer decades ago.
@@harrypadarri6349 and 300 years ago they probably would try to smash it with a rock because it looks like witchcraft to them. Oh, then burn you at the stake.
Any technology no matter how primitive is magic to those who don't understand it.
-Florence Ambrose
Wankel
Magic is a stretch. People imagined hovering machines long before drones were invented and people being placed in a simulation long before VR was invented. Pens already existed in the 18th century and a more advanced version would've been well within the realm of "what if" at the time. It'd just be impressive.
When you realise you're a cooler kid because you're writing with a pen.
I have a Fisher Space Pen in my EDC right now, because the model I've chosen doesn't leak in my pocket, and when closed is only about 4 inches long. It also works on the waterproof notebook I usually have with me, and when marking on not flat surfaces like walls or ceilings.
The reason NASA focuses so heavily on space pens is because graphite dust, graphite tips, and ink compounds are a flight hazard. It could get into the air filtration system and have some serious shit go down in the capsule possibly killing the crew and or ruining the mission or both.
Short answer: *no*
A 10 minute video for a one second answer lmaoo
Thanks *Qväck*
Hey Vsauce, Michael here
I actually prefer Fountain Pens, I find them more comfortable to write with. Never liked using a ballpoint. (Please don't kill me).
Let the killing commence. 😉
(Joking of course if not obvious)
After using a fountain pen, ballpoints feel awful to write with. With the amount of writing I have to do at work, using a fountain pen actually makes it that little more bearable.
Rollerball y'all
Fountain pens would be a bad idea in space
Topic suggestion: What is the purpose of fingerprints and why are they unique?
Lisa Wood
its just skin growth patterns, and they are not unique.
Lisa Wood By product of evolution. They helped early ancestors grip on to rough objects and maintain a grip on them when wet, the ridges letting water pass through instead of coating the object.
Nowadays its obsolete as we can still grasp things with little fuss even if our fingers are covered.
okleydokley Tell that to people in a forensic laboratory.
Lord Krishna Stole My Heart the people in forensics will tell you this myth has lead to the arrest of innocent people. It is uncommon to see but identical prints do happen.
pretty sure fingerprints are for better grip through friction. this may also the reason your fingers turn to prunes if you are in water too long.
they are probably unique even between identical twins because conditions in the womb during development like movement of the fluids and positions of the foetus.
answer to this question at 3:03
colin gresty thanks I missed it
colin gresty you the real MVP
colin gresty why not just tell us
give this man a medal!
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is this vsauce michael's son?
anthony plomaritis his daughter
Jokes on you, I'm taking a shit. There aren't any pens anywhere near me
Should have just finger painted instead...
Eugene Sagan how can you paint in space it's a liquid
Eugene Sagan NO, the paint would be flying everywhere
Satire joke...
That was lovely. So much information! You should do a vid on RFID chips. Another item that was expensive to produce, but mass production brought the price down.
Let me just correct most of you all and prevent further ignorance, if possible:
General pens don't work *reliably* in space because the ink is filled at atmospheric pressure and Earth gravity.
In space, the pens we use contain pressurized ink; the Fisher model (the first pressurized model of its kind) used nitrogen to pressurize its cartridges, a practice which is still used today.
The reason for using pressure in pens, it seems, is that surface tension alone may not be enough to pull a long column of ink through a narrow tube. If there is a little bubble in the column of ink, the surface tension is broken, and there is no way to pull ink past the bubble.
The problem of a bubble in the column of ink happens on land, too, not just in space. People deal with it by just throwing the pen away. Since cheap pens cost less than 15 cents, someone may develop the habit of throwing away pens without noticing what he is doing. If a bubble develops, it is usually after the pen has had considerable use, so there is little complaint.
In situations of varying temperature and outside air pressure, unpressurized pens may develop a bubble more easily. Pressurized ink cartridges are a little more reliable, and cost the manufacturer only a little more.
What do you. Do for work?
@@PlantparenthooD1 He's obviously an astronut.
0:46 You probably have a ballpoint pen with you right now. *Cries in Washroom*
What's the origin of the phrase "ladies and germs"?
Admiral Percy Groucho Marx of The Marx Brothers
The Rothschild's cook book, women are easier to manipulate and they spend more money on junk.
Admiral Percy Feminist theatre
your head is very shiny...
RazeMute vaseline
Blitz Plays if you are brave enough.
Lul
Fuzzy face smooth head.
RazeMute there are people with super shiny heads.
His is a Matte color.
I only watch this channel when im desperate for sleep
TheManSam92 lol me too
Yes
Not sure how true this story is but long ago, my father told me that one of the companies his company worked with needed those tiny ballpoint pen balls for some process with their machinery--not sure, something to do with leveling and the fact the balls could withstand intense pressure. Anyway, they contacted Bic to see if they could bulk order just the pen ball bearings.
Turns out they couldn't. Apparently the machinery that made the balls were part of the huge line of machinery that made EVERYTHING for the pen. So, the best Bic could do for them was to sell them refill cartridges with no ink in the plastic tube. The company in question then hired another company to build them a small machine that would bite off the tip of the refill cartridge to extract the ball bearing.
Crazy how "all in one" manufacturing will get you to the point that you can't simply obtain one part of a finished product and instead have to figure out a workaround.
And something even crazier is that this was without doubt cheaper than the alternatives
So why didn't they use crayons???????
nick longstaffe
temptation to shove up their noses was a major hurdle.
nick longstaffe They weren't space Marines.
Glorywhole nah, space marines eat them, not put them up their nose. That's the flyboys
nick longstaffe the particles that come off the crayon.
jet100a much less so than a pencil
All these use a previous invention. In 1827, a Romanian, Petrache Poenaru, invented the pen with reservoir of ink. Until then, writing devices were not autonomous and had to use a bottle of ink every few words. He has a fascinating life story that would deserve a video on its own. He was a highwayman like Robin Hood for the lower class, than a revolutionary and statesman. He came up with the idea after he was shot and arrested because the bottle of ink he was carrying leaked and left a trace. He later became a politician, a publisher of newspapers and even drew the flag of the country. :)
So.. Bíró is the reason, why brits call it a biro?
Nice to know.
In Finnish "kulli" means a cock. :)
Biro is the dude who invented ballpoint pens, in Argentina we call them birome
I guess, but that name is pronaunced very differently than in this video.
Clemens Korella Homage!
In schools you either used biro (super cheap pens), fountain pens or gel pens
Calling them pens would get the 3 mixed up and everybody had their preferences
Them: "Concerned about tiny fragments of wood and graphite"
Also Them: "Lets send up a pressurized metal tube full of ink!"
@Some characters aren't allowed Where'd you learn how to read? Its called a joke poking fun at a pressurized tube of ink, not a normal pen.
his forehead is brighter than my future. 😐😦
lmao
Benjamin Lozada Looks like your english isn't so right
KrazyKube Gaming sick burn dude
If that is his forehead, then my future would be pretty bright
Haider Ali noooo😭😭😭😭
just use crayons...
Evan Russell now that is smart of you.
Crayons have the same "debris" breaking off problem.
The extreme temperatures could cause the crayons to become brittle and crack.
Game Addiction nerd
Evan Russell yes I am.
Wait i knew this thanks to 3 idiots movie 😂😂
Btw this pen should be with phunsuk wangadu 😂😂😂
YEAH that movie was awesome but I've heard this tall tale tons of times
Same
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NASA : Pen
Russian's : pencils
Me : crayon's
I smell a Marine
@@BrennanCh06 SIR YES SIR!
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Idk, if marines eat crayons what do army grunts eat...
Last time I looked marines wrote with blood, either theirs or the enemies.
Damn! I have believed (and repeated) that story about the space pen for decades. That's egg on my face. Ah well it's good to finally know the truth.
Paul Jackson the fake story was meant to criticize the American system and show how smart the Soviets were. The real story shows the opposite.
lookoutforchris it was just a joke, but Americans can't get it as it is. LOLD for our Soviet fathers.
Not ripping on you, but that is the problem with a lot of people (and I admit myself from time to time), we repeat info without verifying if it's true.
Everybody does it. It's not possible to fact check everything and it was a fairly harmless myth.
That's what happens when you are dumbfuck who pretends to be smart. Next time, verify something before you say it.