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Re:Donald Knuth was framed by bumby on Monday February 24, 2020 @03:06PM (#22407867)
I have heard the real reason was to avoid electrical shorts. Pencils inevitably have bits of conductive graphite breaking off and floating about, potentially damaging electrical components
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Re:Donald Knuth was framed by hwayne on Monday February 24, 2020 @03:16PM (#22407984)
Wikipedia has a great article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space
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Re:Donald Knuth was framed by bumby on Monday February 24, 2020 @03:51PM (#22408308)
Interesting read! Although it isn’t clear what the combustion source is based upon, on-orbit conditions are generally different from STP and combustion effects may not translate
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