{"id":13732,"date":"2012-05-08T06:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13732"},"modified":"2012-05-08T06:55:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:55:37","slug":"seen-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13732","title":{"rendered":"Seen On Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"NASA\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8830555556,-77.0163888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8830555556,-77.0163888889 (NASA)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ballpoint pen\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ballpoint_pen\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">ballpoint pens<\/a> would not work in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Weightlessness\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weightlessness\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">zero gravity<\/a>. To combat the problem NASA spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that works in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, and almost on any surface including glass and at a temperature ranging from below freezing to 300 degrees celcius. <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>THE RUSSIANS USED A PENCIL<\/strong><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=e354d9ab-c552-48a2-b5a4-20fa888d4ecb\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem NASA spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that works in zero gravity, upside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13732\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2954,558],"class_list":["post-13732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ballpoint-pen","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13733,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions\/13733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}