Beer, the final frontier
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| Young Einstein was right: e=mc2 is the formula for splitting beer atoms |
I’m a big fan of space exploration. Whether it’s because I truly believe that it’s to the benefit of all mankind that we push the boundaries of exploration, or if it’s just because it reminds me of Star Trek, I don’t know. Probably the latter. Anyway, I’m a big fan of space exploration.
A lot of Americans used to be that way, too.
However, ever since the summer of 1969, space exploration hasn’t seemed to have the country’s attention like it used to. What happened in the summer of ‘69? The Apollo 11 landing. And the last first-run episode of Star Trek. Not sure which caused the drop in interest in space.
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| Science! has another way to blind us |
We need something to get people’s attention. And our good friend, Science!, has supplied it.
Beer.
In case you missed it — and I did until I was it on History Channel’s The Universe — there are clouds of beer in space.
Okay, it’s not exactly beer. But it’s alcohol, similar in structure to the alcohol in beer.
Geoff Macdonald, who has a keen interest in such matters, calculated that there is enough for 300,000 pints of beer for every person on Earth every day for the next billion years
Space has beer for the taking. That ought to get people’s attention. And it ought to increase the interest in space exploration.
Now, me? I don’t drink beer. I don’t drink any alcoholic beverages at all. I’m that much of a Baptist.
But you know what that means? When we all go to space after the space beer, I’m the designated driver.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Baptists can drink beer, they just choose not to. Weiners.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Without us designated drivers, you’d risk getting pulled over outside the Beerkeg Nebula and have to spend the night in jail.
By the way, you take just one Baptist, he’ll drink all your beer. If you take two, neither one will touch it.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:13 am
“(In space) it’s raining soup and we don’t even know about soup bowls…”
-Larry Nivin
“It’s raining beer, F%#@ the soup!” -Geoff Macdonald
November 4th, 2009 at 1:26 am
DRINK THE STARBOOZE!
November 4th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Now all we need to do is find a galaxy of pretzels.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:25 am
“I would say that if it is just us, it’s an awful waste of
spacebeer.”November 4th, 2009 at 9:59 am
mmmmmmm space beer……
November 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am
“By the way, you take just one Baptist, he’ll drink all your beer. If you take two, neither one will touch it.”
As a Baptist, I have to laugh - because it’s funny and kinda true.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:52 am
And here I thought space was just a waste of space.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Wasn’t there an article a year ago about the odor of space? Something about it smelling metallic, or was it pork?
November 4th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Oh man, I hope it doesn’t turn out to be a galaxy of Coors Light.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Oh man, I hope it doesn’t turn out to be a galaxy of Coors Light
Or Billy beer. I’d watch out cruising the great space party keg, Basil. I think I know where Ted Kennedy went to in the afterlife. (Well that, or a very hot place.)
November 4th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Jeebus H Mohammed. And they said space research was a waste of money. The big problem now will be A) getting there, and B) keeping “big booze” from outlawing it like they did with marijuana.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Maybe that explains why God made the duck-billed platipus.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
This sounds like a plan. All we need is to get a couple million dollars to buy tickets at 100,000 a pop on Virgin Galactic. and a few tens of millions of dollars to stay at the orbital hotel at 2 million a pop. (We need a place to sleep it off.) I wonder if the Government will aprove that as apart of the Stimulas package? It’s got to be better spent money than wasting it on studying the sex lives of co-ed freshmen… wait a minute..
November 5th, 2009 at 12:45 am
it’s raining soup and we don’t even know about soup bowls…”
November 5th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Wonder if there’s a Mad Dog 20/20 universe somewhere. That might be cheaper to get to.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
The link said the cloud “contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.”
Hmmm… we’ll have to bring a lot of hops; and some slices of lime.