4 The easiest solutions are the best.

Quote: “Sort of reminds me of the thousands of dollars of taxpayer money NASA spent on developing a pen that could write in outer space, upside down, and never leak.  The Soviets told their cosmonauts to just use pencils.”

     The author was paraphrasing the saying that the easiest solutions are often the most efficient ones. This reminds me of the situation at the Bratislava airport. It is approximately 50 meters to walk from the boarding gate to the airplane. But you have to get on bus which circumnavigates the jet on a 200 meter journey, dropping you at the same place you could have walked to. Maybe, you would have caught your shuttle bus, if you did not have to wait for all the passengers to get on the bus and undergo the “airport sightseeing”.  Well, the easiest solutions are often the most efficient ones. (Actually, later my smart brother reminded me that the pencil would not work, either, because the graphite chips might damage the sensitive machinery in the space ship).

Few months ago, I came across an interesting article written by an American living in Slovakia. (http://www.52insk.com/2012/1950/)  I liked some of his observations and therefore decided to comment them. I do not want to offend the author, nor anyone else. Please, accept this just as poor fiction and one’s will to share his opinions.