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Game: True or false?

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered the ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 Billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300C.

The Russians used a pencil.

True or false? Answer correctly and post your own "True or false".
 
True or false? Answer correctly and post your own "True or false".

Even US astronauts used pencils initially but they posed a fire hazard in craft.


Ultimately a pen as described above was made by Fisher (or is it fischer?)

This pen would not freeze(ink) and was safe.
 
True.

Was “Rosie the Riveter” the name of a fictional character who came to symbolize the millions of real women who filled America’s factories, munitions plants, and shipyards during World War II :?: ???
 
Um....Nnnn.....er.....

This isn't a T or F statement......but I think the answer is No.

True or False:

My ex wives were idiots.
 
False.

It only appears blue because the atmosphere absorbs more of the short (red) waves of the light spectrum.

T or F:

Paul is a smart ass.
 
This is a matter of perception, is it verifiable?

T or F.

The more urgent the need to use the bathroom, the farther it is away from you!
 
20 days seems reasonable. I'll say True. The bathroom is wherever I decide it needs to be. ;)

T or F:

Cup of Joe is an old Navy term.
 
False. Bathroom needs extra piping that cannot be done every where if you are aethetic.

Lecturers get more throat cancers.

Tor F?
 
false on the lecturer's throat cancers.....but that's just a guess.

true on pauly being a smartass, but aren't we all sometimes? ;)


T or F-
It is possible to run an electric blender with electricity without a battery or electrical cord.
 
That's crazy enough to be true. And Cup of Joe WAS, in fact, an old Navy Term. ;)

T or F:

Diamond and coal are chemically identical.
 
TRUE!

and Tesla was the original non-wired electrical engineer. Westinghouse couldn't figure out how to meter(aka...CHARGE..) for wireless electricity.


but now, the next wave of new technology is wireless appliances. It's all coming back around...


T-or-F
The sunflower is so-named because of the shape of the flower.
 
False. Parrots are known to live longer than them.

They are known to suvive human owners by decades.

Ape became man because he made tools.

T or F ?
 
False.

Apes and man have a common, ancient ancestor....but we are not decended from modern apes.

T or F:

I know a little about way too much. :lol:
 
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