Відео

The nuclear power cell on board the Voyager is too depleted, can’t supply enough voltage to operate the camera.

It seems they also lucked out that this special eclipse occurred over the Sahara, which means they had essentially zero light pollution to contend with

one on my desk right now. nice to hear the history of something so ubiquitous.

7:55 😂😂😂😂😂 the English pronunciation must have drove him nuts!!😂😂😂

I have never bought a single one of these pens in my life. I just take them from public offices.

Reminds me of the short story Exhalation, by Ted Chiang

At least during the 70s the pen failed when held at more than about 20 degrees from vertical.

ua-cam.com/video/Nb1PrONDHhk/v-deo.html This is the most impact for business to success or fail beside engineering. Most of Chinese brands still struggle with this till today.

Definitely going to think about this the next time i write something

Funny that in my country there's a pen brand that started as a bic copy, but their pens today are quite better and look more modern yet simple.

plz make a video about the Bic lighter

i always used to play with them. the cap would be the semi truck and the pen would be the trailer

SO I had to go to Walfart yesterday, and figured I would try a Bic pen again. I tried it next to my papermate, and the Mate was smoother with an easier to read ink. I remember the Bics used to give it up in a few weeks. My bet is they still do.

I've been using this pen my whole life without realizing just how genius it is. Its materials made me think it was extremely cheap and normal. But if you take a moment to appreciate its beauty, you realize how perfect this pen really is. The shape, ink, weight, everything is just perfect. I carry one on me everyday.

Then came Parker, Pilot and Mitsubishi Boxy.

Just think of all those billions of pens, sitting in landfills. And contrary to the claims in this video, ballpoint pens do NOT write upside down, unless the refill is pressurised. I use fountain pens that are refillable (a bottle of ink lasts over a year): thus, less waste. And my fountain pens will write upside down, due to capillary action. They also look much cooler than Bic pens, of which I have used and lost many. I haven't lost a fountain pen in over 40 years, and I can used far more colours and shades of ink than you'll find in any Bic. My current favourite ink colour is called Vampire Red: it's the colour of dried blood and it's truly marvellous to use.

So did they only test it once?

I started school (Kindergarten) in 1979. The Catholic school (in Sydney Australia) that I went to had just changed the year I started to allowing ball point pens, they had issued ink wells/nibs up until 1978!

Is this ai?

PENS ARE GREAT

Great design, except those pens still get iffy sometimes

i can fully agree with this pen. This pen is perfect for me, as i write a bit slow but very accurate and no matter who you are it is perfect for your writing style.

We are so incredibly lucky to be born in this time. In just 100 years everything changed. And in 100 more, who knows if humanity will have survived at the rate things are going. We lucked out.

3:47 is that where the captain's logs go?

this is great but why is this space related?

One curious bit of information was left out from this posting. The single major design change on the Bic pen over the years was on the lid, which originally did not have a hole on its tip, and this hole is meant to save lives; childrens lives, that may swallow it and have it be lodged on their throats. The hole allowed the children to keep breathing until they were taken to an emergency room at a hospital where it could be safely removed.

I loved this pen, got it in a 12 pack actually just yesterday.

When I saw you showing the inflation adjustments on the prices on your video, I realised this was actually quality journalism. So often important details are glossed over. Bravo.

the blue color of the cap is the most iconic for me, the way it encapsulated being the backbone of advancing literacy

Most people learn to write using pencils though...

The ball has been tungsten carbide rather than stainless steel since 1961 as it's a much harder wearing material (Tungsten carbide has a similar hardness to sapphire, with diamond being one of the very few materials that's even harder). They're also the go to example for how quality products aren't necessarily expensive products. Bic lighters are impressive for the same reason.

The most amazing part about this pen is that I never bought one and I still have one. And wait, before everyone says I steal them. I honestly forget I borrowed pens or they magically appear in my bag. You decide.

Thanks for all the info! I remember when my school first got ballpoints around 1957 in the US, but I think it wasn't a Bic. In Australia primary schools still used slates and chalk for many years after that.

It is a classic in "value engineering" classes!

I find it interesting that a pen can change the world in any way possible, because maybe without this pen some inventions wouldn't have happened.

Oddly enough, I don't really like these pens, because it seems like the ink always dries up long before it actually runs out. I didn't realize how revolutionary it was!

The Bic Cristal has always been my favorite pen, now I like it even more after learning its story!

I had no idea about the origin of this pen. I love this pen in all of its simplicity!

The Best pen i've ever used, Was the Bic Crystal

The design and manufacture of the tiny ball in the pen was such a well-guarded secret that even though the pens were made in China, they had to import the balls until recently, when they reverse-engineered the process.

I *hate* this pen. It's the cheapest piece of shit possible - which is exactly why so many people buy it - and it feels every bit as cheapy-trashy as it is. Oh and... your comparison between literacy rates and pen pices is completely idiotic. That is, at best, correlation, but by no means a causal link.

BIC is one of the few ball point pens that don't dry up. I've had BIC pens lying in drawers and cupboards, forgotten for years, that still worked as well as on the day I bought them, while far more expensive ones don't work anymore already after six months. In the 1960s, when I was at school, BIC pens were supplied to us by the school and they looked exactly like they do today. We used to take them apart and use them as pea shooters. Sorry about that Monsieur Bich.

Technically capillary action can't account completely for trees getting water all the way up to the top. Its mostly an odd phenomenon of negative pressure.

Never see this pen...maybe not in my country

PEN BFDI-

I do like these pens. I don't know why, but last time I went to buy blue pens, they seemed to be in short supply. Nice video.

Awful pen, but good enough and stupid cheap

The BIC pen definetly got to the point. Its designers were "write" about it.

fountain pens write way better than ballpoints.

There are countless channels like this, and most of them couldn't produce a video as engaging, concise, and to the point as this.