RE: The Difference Between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions:

Pedantic correction, NASA wasn't and isn't part of the defense budget and
all the spin-off ushered in the digital age, communication age, the computer
age, miniaturization age, oh; and Tang and Velcro.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Rovira [mailto:jrovira@drew.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:15 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: The Difference Between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on
Solutions:

No, that's the difference between having a Huge Defense Budget Aligned with
Corporate Interests and Wanting to Spend Budget Money Before the Fiscal Year
Runs Out...and not. :).

Great story :). I'd like to see that pen.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

> When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out the
> pens wouldn't work in zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing
> surface). In order to solve the problem, they hired Andersen Consulting
> (Accenture today). It took them one decade and 12 million dollars. They
> developed a pen that worked in zero gravity, upside down, under water, on
> practically any surface, and in temperatures ranging from below freezing
> to over 300 degrees Centigrade.
>
> The Russians used a pencil.
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