[FT] Ballpoints In Space

> >You'd realize this if you had a space program. How

Actually... pencils are banned anywhere within cooee of the cleanroom where
FedSat is being assembled. Graphite dust is conductive, and until the gear is
sealed in a protective coating, would be Bad News.

> Like all good stories regarding million-dollar toilet seats

I was going to say "OK then explain why they had to spend millions developing
fizzy drink you could drink in space", but that's actually brought up a more
pressing question...

If coke is such a great thing for cleaning jewellery, loosening over tightened
nuts, cleaning blood off stuff etc, how is it as a paint remover from figs?

> At 01:23 31/10/01 +1100, aebrain wrote:

> > >You'd realize this if you had a space program. How

> the gear is sealed in a protective coating, would be Bad News.

Well then, use a.........CRAYON:)

I can just imagine all that deadly serious mission report paperwork NASA is
famous for being completed in BRIGHT NEON COLOURS;P

On 30-Oct-01 at 21:30, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au (Beth.Fulton@csiro.au)
wrote:
> If coke is such a great thing for cleaning jewellery, loosening over

Better than water, but not much.

> --- Derek Fulton <derekfulton@bigpond.com> wrote:

<grin> I was going to comment more on how recording science data in pencil
(and perhaps, for some reason, NASA's forms?) is a Bad Thing(tm) as pencil can
be erased and changed. My sister (a chemistry teacher) shows her students the
lab scene from the first Jurassic Park movie, where the head "researcher" in
the lab is erasing something from his clipboard, and tells her students, "if I
*ever* catch you using pencil for a lab, you fail the lab."

But crayon... hmm, maybe. Though you may be able to scrape it off, like (ages
ago) writing from parchment. (Though there you were removing the parchment
under the ink, and thus the ink, I
believe....)

> Better than water, but not much.

Oh well there goes that idea!

Thanks

> On 30-Oct-01 at 21:30, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au (Beth.Fulton@csiro.au)
wrote:
> >

Try brake fluid.... soak for a few days, checking every so often. I've heard
its safe for both metal and plastics. But I haven't tried it yet myself:) Eric

> At 02:04 31/10/01 +1100, Beth (Mother of my third child) wrote:

GREAT!:) More for me:)

> On 30-Oct-01 at 21:30, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au (Beth.Fulton@csiro.au)

Soda is much too valuable to be used as paint remover. Use it all up cleaning
paint and what do you use for mixed drinks?

Gracias,

Soda is much too valuable to be used as paint remover. Use it all up cleaning
paint and what do you use for mixed drinks?

G

The obvious answer - paint thinner...

What mean this....Mixed Drinks? You can dilute Liquor?

Brian

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."

                                 - S. Freud

> From: Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com>

Some, although a red wine in seven-up... might not be too bad... Yes, it
would.

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:27:16 -0800 "Brian Bilderback"
> <bbilderback@hotmail.com> writes:

> Soda is much too valuable to be used as paint remover. Use it all up

You call coke a drink? Ugh! Seeings as its no good for cleaning figs there
will be no contest... Derek can have the lot!

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:23:45 +1100, aebrain@austarmetro.com.au wrote:

> Like all good stories regarding million-dollar toilet seats etc there

I noticed that no one mentioned the fact that the $2 million dollar pen
actually saved the lives of the Apollo 11 crew. If all they had was a
pencil... well, here's the article from Spider Robinson, who tells it quite
well (except for the silly name calling of William Proxmire; not that he
didn't deserve it):

http://www.galaxymagazine.com/Robinson_Spider/SenatorSockdryer_001.html

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> Beth (Mother of my third child) wrote:
***

Wait a step, that's mother-to-be, isn't it?

DID I MISS SOMETHING?!?!

The_Beast

G'day,

> Wait a step, that's mother-to-be, isn't it?

No still 3 - 4 weeks to go before I stop resembling the first viable
human-whale hybrid ;)
And I don't doubt Derek will be announcing it with great gusto when number 3
makes her arrival!!

Its just that everything is so big now she responds to pokes etc and is
becoming an integrated part of the family already... though she hasn't
improved my gaming ability any... I'm finding it harder than ever to reach the
centre of the table;)

***
No still 3 - 4 weeks to go...
***

I thought so; just wanted the rest of the list to be on the tinterhooks I
am. Wait til you start hearing the complaints of sympathy labor. ;->=

Oh, and I had made the cetacean connection during Megan's gestation. I always
figured that, in the long run, may have contributed to my being formerly
married.

Derek, forewarned.

The_Beast

> At 01:49 1/11/01 +1100, Beth (glowing in that kind of way) wrote:

No you didn't miss THAT, but I have dropped a couple of hints on the main
list. It's about time someone ACTUALLY NOTICED:)

> Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> Its just that everything is so big now she responds to pokes etc and

Which greatly impedes the Daleks advance into the enemy's territory!

:-)

In message <5.1.0.14.0.20011101172952.02cba0e0@mail.bigpond.com>, Derek Fulton
writes:
> At 01:49 1/11/01 +1100, Beth (glowing in that kind of way) wrote:

CONGRATS!! I've been trying to get my wife to start working on our third
little gamer, but she isn't having it.:)

> Its just that everything is so big now she responds to pokes etc and

if you'd use 6mm, you could use a smaller table.... :-)

G'day,

> if you'd use 6mm, you could use a smaller table.... :-)

Depends what game you're playing... DS still needs a big table for 6mm
;)

Besides we can still play 25mm FMA, I can just play defensively or ask Derek
nicely to move "that grey there with the laser cannon to that bit of cover
right behind your CO's head...";)