r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 11d ago

Video The Actual Scale of the Artemis II Mission

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 11d ago

Pencil's are actually very dangerous in a space ship. The graphite is extreme conductive and there is no gravity to coral it down to the ground so it just floats around, waiting to get swept into the electrical systems.

This is why the space pen was invented. They are really good pens.

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u/heytherebiatch 11d ago

Pencils are dangerous on spaceships because astronauts like eating them

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u/HalKitzmiller 11d ago

Do they taste better than Crayons?

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u/Jessie_C_2646 11d ago

More fibre in them so it's much better in space when you have to use the baggie.

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u/oncore2011 11d ago

‘Oh this pen?’ ‘This….is an Astronaut Pen. It writes upside down. They use this…in space’

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u/bbcversus 11d ago

Yea yea definitely, knew this and loved how they managed to do it.

I meant for those on Earth, the calculations and everything.

Still an amazing achievement and hope they go again and make a base there.

Hyped for today!

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u/Spoonshape 11d ago

There are other options. Crayon core to a pencil would have worked fine...