NASA considered pencils but it was found that micro shards of graphite could break off the pencil,enter the electronics and potentially interfere with their operation.
Graphite is electrically conductive. It's not magic, wokeism, a mainstream media or government lie.
It is commonly understood knowledge, and for PC enthusiasts you could "mod" PCBs by using pencils to essentially redraw new paths which allowed you to bypass voltage limits etc.
So this one is only partly true.
NASA considered pencils but it was found that micro shards of graphite could break off the pencil,enter the electronics and potentially interfere with their operation.
Of course they could spend money engineering a way around that, which in hindsight likely was easier and therefore less expensive than a fancy pen.
Although imagine pencil or graphite shavings finding its way into your eye. Sounds like torture, so the Soviets probably enjoyed it.
Source: NASA?
Well, the Russians did too...
Here's an article from 2006 about it, so not woke...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/
Graphite is electrically conductive. It's not magic, wokeism, a mainstream media or government lie.
It is commonly understood knowledge, and for PC enthusiasts you could "mod" PCBs by using pencils to essentially redraw new paths which allowed you to bypass voltage limits etc.