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Have You Seen This: Drop a beat with your pen
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Jarom Moore
MUSIC CLASS — When a pen and a desk is your instrument, the whole world is your recording studio, as long as you have a pen and a desk.Shane Bang has created a social media following around musique concrete, using pens, cups, desks, rulers, water and any other random instrument on hand to create a beat. Just think, while you've been getting down and out about tests and homework, you could have been getting down to this sick beat.Bang and his friend Kevin Baek created
using four pens and a ruler to create a nice sound. They have other videos on their Instagram accounts and on YouTube.This isn't the first time musicians have used odd instruments to make music, but Bang has carved his own niche and calls them pen beats. He has about 20 videos and a whole load of short clips on his Instagram account where he puts the beats down under popular songs, and even some
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Please wait ...The pen is more powerful than the sword. There have been many writers who use their pens to write things that were wrong.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them. She was born in the U. S. A. in 1811. One of her books not only made her famous but has been described as one that excited the world, and was helpful in causing a civil war and freeing the enslaved race. The civil war was the American Civil War of 1861, in which the Northern States fought the Southern States and finally won. This book that shook the world was called Uncle Tom's Cabin. There was a time when every English-speaking man, woman, and child had read this novel that did so much to stop slavery. Not many people read it today, but it is still very interesting, if only to show how a warm-hearted writer can arouse people's sympathies. The author herself had neither been to the Southern States nor seen a slave. The Southern Americans were very angry at the book, which they said did not at all represent the true state of affairs, but the Northern Americans were widely excited over it, and were so inspired by it that they were ready to go to war to set the slaves free.小题1:Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe became famous for
.A．one of her booksB．she was a very heartedly personC．she was a kind wifeD．she worked for the war小题2: How old was Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe when her world famous book was published?A．About sixty years old.B．Over fifty years old.C．In her forties.D．Around twenty years old.小题3:What do we learn about Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe from the passage?A．Before the civil war she had been a slave.B．Before the civil war she had lived in the north of America.C．She had a good school education.D．She was better at writing than swinging a sword.小题4:Why could Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's book cause a civil war in America? Because
.A．she disclosed the terrible wrongs done to the slaves in the Southern StatesB．she wrote so well that the Americans loved her very muchC．the Americans were too excited when they reads the bookD．the Southern Americans hated the book, while the Northern Americans liked it小题5:What can we learn from the passage?A．No wor can be won without such a book as Uncle Tom's Cabin.B．We must understand the importance of literature and art.C．We needn't use weapons to fight things that are wrong.D．A writer is more helpful in war than a soldier. - 跟谁学
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Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them. She was born in the U. S. A. in 1811. One of her books not only made her famous but has been described as one that excited the world, and was helpful in causing a civil war and freeing the enslaved race. The civil war was the American Civil War of 1861, in which the Northern States fought the Southern States and finally won. This book that shook the world was called Uncle Tom's Cabin. There was a time when every English-speaking man, woman, and child had read this novel that did so much to stop slavery. Not many people read it today, but it is still very interesting, if only to show how a warm-hearted writer can arouse people's sympathies. The author herself had neither been to the Southern States nor seen a slave. The Southern Americans were very angry at the book, which they said did not at all represent the true state of affairs, but the Northern Americans were widely excited over it, and were so inspired by it that they were ready to go to war to set the slaves free.小题1:Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe became famous for
.A．one of her booksB．she was a very heartedly personC．she was a kind wifeD．she worked for the war小题2: How old was Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe when her world famous book was published?A．About sixty years old.B．Over fifty years old.C．In her forties.D．Around twenty years old.小题3:What do we learn about Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe from the passage?A．Before the civil war she had been a slave.B．Before the civil war she had lived in the north of America.C．She had a good school education.D．She was better at writing than swinging a sword.小题4:Why could Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's book cause a civil war in America? Because
.A．she disclosed the terrible wrongs done to the slaves in the Southern StatesB．she wrote so well that the Americans loved her very muchC．the Americans were too excited when they reads the bookD．the Southern Americans hated the book, while the Northern Americans liked it小题5:What can we learn from the passage?A．No wor can be won without such a book as Uncle Tom's Cabin.B．We must understand the importance of literature and art.C．We needn't use weapons to fight things that are wrong.D．A writer is more helpful in war than a soldier.The pen is more powerful than the sword. There have been many writers who use their pens to write things that were wrong.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them. She was born in the U. S. A. in 1811. One of her books not only made her famous but has been described as one that excited the world, and was helpful in causing a civil war and freeing the enslaved race. The civil war was the American Civil War of 1861, in which the Northern States fought the Southern States and finally won. This book that shook the world was called Uncle Tom's Cabin. There was a time when every English-speaking man, woman, and child had read this novel that did so much to stop slavery. Not many people read it today, but it is still very interesting, if only to show how a warm-hearted writer can arouse people's sympathies. The author herself had neither been to the Southern States nor seen a slave. The Southern Americans were very angry at the book, which they said did not at all represent the true state of affairs, but the Northern Americans were widely excited over it, and were so inspired by it that they were ready to go to war to set the slaves free.小题1:Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe became famous for
.A．one of her booksB．she was a very heartedly personC．she was a kind wifeD．she worked for the war小题2: How old was Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe when her world famous book was published?A．About sixty years old.B．Over fifty years old.C．In her forties.D．Around twenty years old.小题3:What do we learn about Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe from the passage?A．Before the civil war she had been a slave.B．Before the civil war she had lived in the north of America.C．She had a good school education.D．She was better at writing than swinging a sword.小题4:Why could Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's book cause a civil war in America? Because
.A．she disclosed the terrible wrongs done to the slaves in the Southern StatesB．she wrote so well that the Americans loved her very muchC．the Americans were too excited when they reads the bookD．the Southern Americans hated the book, while the Northern Americans liked it小题5:What can we learn from the passage?A．No wor can be won without such a book as Uncle Tom's Cabin.B．We must understand the importance of literature and art.C．We needn't use weapons to fight things that are wrong.D．A writer is more helpful in war than a soldier.科目:最佳答案小题1:A小题2:C小题3:B小题4:A小题5:B 解析
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NASA 'Astronaut Pen'
The Write Stuff
Space race legend claims NASA spent millions of dollars developing an 'astronaut pen' that would work in outer space, while the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils.
Claim: NASA spent millions of dollars developing an 'astronaut pen' that would work in outer space, while the Soviets fixed the problem much more cheaply and quickly by using pencils.
Example: [Collected via e-mail and web, 1999]
Ball-Point Pens for the Astronauts
When NASA started sending astronauts into space, they quickly
Discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero
Gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a
Decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero
Gravity, upside-down, on almost any surface including glass
And at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.
The Russians used a pencil.
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There is a charming anecdote that roams from e-mail box to e-mail box around the world about how, at the height of the space race, the Americans and Soviets approached the same problem: how an astronaut (or cosmonaut) could use a pen to write in zero gravity.
As the story goes, the Americans spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on an ambitious, gravity- they successfully
and this pen went on to become a massive commercial success in the private sector. The Soviets — with the simple elegance their scientists are so rightly famed for — opted instead to use a pencil.
Origin:The lesson of the infamous "space pen" anecdote about NASA's spending a small fortune to develop a ballpoint pen that astronauts could use in outer space, while completely overlooking the simple and elegant solution adopted by the Soviet space program (give cosmonauts pencils instead), is a valid one: sometimes we expend a great deal of time, effort, and money to create a "high-tech" solution to a problem, when a perfectly good, cheap, and simple answer is right before our eyes.
As good a story and moral as that may be, however, this anecdote doesn't offer a real-life example of that syndrome.
Both U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts initially used pencils on space flights, but those writing instruments were not ideal: pencil tips can flake and break off, and having such objects floating around space capsules in near-zero gravity posed a potential harm to astronauts and equipment. (As well, after the fatal Apollo 1 fire in 1967, NASA was anxious to avoid having astronauts carry flammable objects such as pencils onboard with them.)
When the solution of providing astronauts with a ballpoint pen that would work under weightless conditions and extreme temperatures came about, though, it wasn't because NASA had thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars (inflated to $12 billion in the latest iterations of this tale) in research and development money at the problem. The "space pen" that has since become famous through its use by astronauts was developed independently by Paul C. Fisher of the Fisher Pen Co., who spent his own money on the project and, once he perfected his AG-7 "Anti-Gravity" Space Pen, offered it to NASA. After that agency tested and approved the pen's suitability for use in space flights, they purchased a number of the instruments from Fisher for a modest price.
This is how Fisher themselves described the development of their Space Pen:
NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical
device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge.
Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200°C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and development costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government. Because of the fire in Apollo 1, in which three Astronauts died, NASA required a writing instrument that would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere. It also had to work in the extreme conditions of outer space:
In a vacuum.
With no gravity.
In hot temperatures of +150°C in sunlight and also in the cold shadows of space where the temperatures drop to -120°C
(NASA tested the pressurized Space Pens at -50°C, but because of the residential [sic] heat in the pen it also writes for many minutes in the cold shadows.)
Fisher spent over one million dollars in trying to perfect the ball point pen before he made his first successful pressurized pens in 1965. Samples were immediately sent to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Manager of the Houston Space Center, where they were thoroughly tested and approved for use in Space in September 1965. In December 1967 he sold 400 Fisher Space Pens to NASA for $2.95 each.
Lead pencils were used on all Mercury and Gemini space flights and all Russian space flights prior to 1968. Fisher Space Pens are more dependable than lead pencils and cannot create the hazard of a broken piece of lead floating through the gravity-less atmosphere.
Paul Fisher continues to market his space pens as the writing instrument that went to the moon and has spun off this effort into a separate corporation, the Fisher
This legend was referenced in an episode of NBC's The West Wing TV series ("We Killed Yamamoto"; original air date 15 May 2002):
Last updated: 19 April 2016
Originally published: 19 April 2014
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"NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen That Would Write in Space."
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"The Fisher Space Pen."
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"Pencil Us in for the Next Y2K Disaster."
14 January 2000.
in 1994, and under his guidance the company has pioneered a number of revolutionary technologies, including the iPhone,
the light bulb, beer pong, and a vaccine for a disease that has not yet been discovered. He is currently seeking political asylum in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
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