basilton:

In the early years of space flight, both Russians and Americans used pencils in space. Unfortunately, pencil lead is made of graphite, a highly conductive material. Snapped graphite leads and particles in zero gravity are hugely problematic, as they will get sucked into the air ventilation or electronic equipment, easily causing shorts or fires in the pure oxygen environment of a capsule.

After the fire in Apollo 1 which killed all the astronauts on board, NASA required a writing instrument that wasn’t a fire hazard. Fisher spent over a million dollars (of his own money) creating a pressurized ball point pen, which NASA bought at $2.95 each. The Russian space program also switched over from pencils shortly after.

40 years later snide morons on the internet still snigger about it, because snide morons on the internet never know what they are talking about.

quoilecanard:

mriazbr:

onestumppeeta:

poppunknigga:

i honestly tried hard to scroll past this.
like, really fucking hard i’m sorry 

I scrolled past and almost made the worst decision of my life.

But then I went back and reblogged the fuck out of this masterpiece of a photo

^ what they said.

I miss all my guineas so much :(

karkateverdeen:

therealeovaldez:

sassy-gay-erisol:

technicolor-trolls:

mrspandasoft:

theblueboxiscoming:

At Hogwarts:

In the Tardis:

In the Shire:

In the Impala:

In 221B Baker Street:

In Camelot:

In the Pokemon world

At Avengers Mansion:

In Storybrooke:

The Jeffersonian:

Narnia:

The Truffula Valley:

With the Hetalia gang:

In Asgard:

ALL TRUE

YOU FUCKING FORGOT ALTERNIA

WHO THE FUCK WANTS TO BE ON ALTERNIA

THEY FORGOT THE ARGO II

NO SERIOUSLY WHO THE FRICK WOULD WANT TO BE ON ALTERNIA 

latanieredecyberwolf:

Fantasy Flight Games - Concept Art

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