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Beer In Space
Saint Aardvark writes: "Check it out...NASA recently sent up an experiment to see how well beer could be brewed in space. The result? One millilitre of space brew. Can orbital microbrew be far behind?" They've been making great strides since our first Beer in Space article.
Mmmmmm... orbital brew.....
sudo eat my shorts
You can imagine what the ISS would be like with a couple of tipsy astronauts/cosmonauts, etc.
No drinking and driving a space shuttle.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Sounds like they've already got an orbital microbrew.
They need to start thinking about macrobrewing, if you ask me.
Thank you.
--Patrick Bateman, Esq.
If you got drunk and puked, and the puke wouldn't fall because of gravity than you could choke on it.
We seldom regret saying too little but often regret saying too much.
I can't wait for thye first beer related accedent. We can start a chapter for
M - others
A - gainst
D - runk
D - Driveing -and-
A - sternaut
S - afety
S - tandards
Free beer has made it to space
Soon we will have to go there to get free speach.
Sounds like they've got 1000 microbrews already.
I'm a nature photographer.
Beer gooood!!!
My tax dollars are paying for WHAT???
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
nigger are fucking stupid.
Slashdot sucks.
hippies are gay.
The government is a faggot.
you smell.
I mean that would kinda suck. Although light is better than nothing I guess ...
pherris
"And a voice was screaming: 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'" - HST
They better not send him up to the ISS again! Otherwise instead of a DIY table, it will be a DIY beer brewing laboratory!!! I wonder if NASA would notice the missing supplies.... :-P
You may be too young to remember this beer commercial
It don't get no better than BISS!
Brewski of International Space Station.When you need to piss,
Think BISS!!
If you're not on somebody's shit list, you're not doing anything worthwhile.....
Everybody meet me at that new microbrewery... Meet me at the elevators at 5:25, and we will take my plane
As if Coors wasn't light enough already
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
please make the babarians with the towel heads and 13th century level society die, thanks.
Why does font handling in Mozilla suck so much cock? All I can choose are the non-scaleable shit fonts that look all blocky. Konqueror kicks it's ass. I have anti-aliased fonts and a browser that nicely integrates with the rest of my system.
Is a zero G environment the place you want to induce burping? Foamy masses are a lot less adorable when chunks are floating in them...
As i read it, the problem with soft drinks and beer is the lack of a downward force to keep the elements of the drinks in proper alignment. What if a small, personal, rotational bed type apparatus could be used to provide centripetal acceleration to the fluids. (They same kind they are experimenting with to give Astronauts proper exercise in space) So the beer could be brewed while rotating and soft drinks could be enjoyed at a familiar 9.81 m/s^2. Very much a hassle, but worth it for a quick fix.
We bring up yeast and whatnot all the way up there to do an experiment that is essentially the same as doing the experiment in my garage, only more legal, and hellishly more expensive. Would you expect less? This is neat but it also pisses away money (and credibility) that NASA sorely needs.
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
Now a good second step would be to grow weed and later test it on a willing subject. Now that's an astronaut's diary I'd like to read.
Do we really want some drunk astronaut destroying the bijillion dollare Internation space station. This wouldnt be cool.
Gaming Shizzle
Excuse me sir, can you point me at any documentation for becoming a raging homosexual? You see, that's always been a dream of mine. All the other kids in my first-grade class used to say they wanted to become firemen, or soldiers, or the President. Not me. J. Edgar Hoover was always my hero, so when Mrs. Smith asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I told her, "Mrs Smith, I want to be a raging homosexual!" She didn't like that, for some reason. All the other kids made fun of me, but that was OK. I could ignore them in favor of pursuing my dream of becoming a raging homosexual.
Today, I've believe I've mastered the homosexual part. My ass can take cocks you wouldn't believe, and my dick's been sucked by thousands of hot guys. What I'm having trouble with is the raging part. If you could point me at any web pages with information on skilled raging, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks for your help.
Fools...
Dancin Santa
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because at $1400 for a glass of SpaceAle, I'm voting for "Free Beer" over "Free Speech".
So that's what my tax dollars are paying for...
I'm all for space exploration, but damn, can't they do something useful? I know that growing food in zero-g is important, but can't they at least try something like wheat or hydroponic tomatoes instead of beer...
I remember the Russians just shipped bottles of Vodka with the Progress supply ship.
Ah, how I love the human race ; )
Where else but the University of Colorado would students be figuring out how to brew beer in space?
Of course, we're also figuring out how to make mice breed in Mars gravity...I can see some kind of experiment crossover...
"Hey Bob, the mice aren't breedin'! Time to get 'em drunk!"
Answer: Party Pig
The Party Pig uses a self-expanding pouch to maintain pressure in a 2.25 gallon beer keg. Because it doesn't rely on adding carbon dioxide to maintain pressure, it is well suited for use in space.
BTW, I currently own 4 Party Pigs and a 20 gallon oak barrel, currently filled with a Belgian Lambic Ale.
A word of advice to all the /.ers under the drinking age. Don't take up home brewing Freshman year in college like me just because you can buy the supplies to make beer. Oops, did I just give you information? Please ignore the power of that information.
Frylock: That's not a toy!
Master Shake: You say that about everything you own. You should own toys. They're fun.
Gotta love someone who will only do a thesis involving something she can eat or drink in the end. I like that attitude, I think I'm in love...
osoma bin stallman wants free as in speech not as in...
oh i don't give a fuck. i just wnated to say osoma bin stallman..
cuase he's a fanatic...you know like...feh...
*yawn*
In heaven there is no beer,
that's why we drink it here...
I mean, how could they get anyone to sign up for a three year trip if there wasn't going to be beer on board?
Damn, and here I was thinking that space wasn't good for anything except satellites and satellite accessories. Just think, this potentially has applications for everything from homebrewing to commercial zymurgy! Boy, keep on funding the space program, it's paying for itself EVERY GoDDAMNED DAY!
It's like the ants and tiny screws, that had applications for everything from watchmaking to watch repair!
Remember kids, Simpsons references == karma!
AC's cheerfully ignored
"Amerrican asstonaut beerr is bad" When interviewed by an international news agency.
Mmmmm... beer.
Now if they could only somehow smuggle potato chips on board. As long as they're not ruffled, and they don't clog the instruments.
Let's see... IIRC 1000 ml = 1 liter and 1 liter of water = 1 kg. There's 2.2 lb per kg and it costs $10,000 to lift 1 lb into orbit. It costs $22,000 to lift 1 kg or 1 liter into orbit or $22.00 per ml. Add to that the cost of hauling up the homebrew equipment that is one expensive brew.
"This beer better be the best tastin' beer in the world." - Barny Gumble
It's stories like these that convince me that NASA is past it's prime. Very past it's prime.
The billions of dollars we waste on these absurd programs would be MUCH better spent on developing...say...reliable
broadband service in every home, or nanotechnology.
Guess we're stuck with this mess until the Star Trek generation dies off.
As long as they dont piss where they r not supposed to
you'd better start posting some good stories soon, or I'm going to have to start trolling. crapish.
losers
MOM
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
As a home brewer, though, I expect they'd have to go straight DME, as doing an all grain job would be quite a mess, sparging and all. Now there's something for NASA engineers to work out!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
..government funding hard at work!
can't fight against the youth.
If this was done by belgium people I could see the headlines :
Drunk pilot crashes Shulte in Atlantic, 5000L beer spilled in ocean!! Nasa will install breathezizers on shutle
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man i'm so bored. Why can't they start the war already.
Fucking bunch of neo-hippy fucktards are already protesting. Shut up you little bitches you don't have to fight, there are plenty of men willing to defend america, you bitches can stay home and cook dinner.
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change the font size to 72 and change font type to wingdings
you wouldn't believe it
Well, I guess it's beer so who cares who good it tastes as long as it's cheap and potent, right?
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I know it's off topic, but...
If I wanted to block all afghanistan internet
connections, would this work?
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -s *.af -j DROP
Oh, and here is something interesting, there is only 1 person in Afghanistan who uses Linux. Don't believe me? here's proof
Now it's just a matter of time before they have the first *moonshine* still in space. Better watch out for revenooers!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Time for another Troll Friday Poll!
On the whole I would say my life is:
1. Fucked Up
2. Really Fucked Up
3. Really Really Fucked Up
4. Eat Shit
5. No, YOU Eat Shit
6. Your problem is a result of your negative attitude. I maintain a positive state of mind and suck a fat cock every day, and I feel great!
Beer must be considered very precious on the ISS.
"Alright, who drank the sample?!"
Remember "Bring 'em on"? *sigh
This post-graduate is a woman who has experience brewing beer...in space. If that isn't Mrs. Right, then I'll never meet her.
"Don't mind me cutting myself on Occam's Razor"
So can anyone come up with an actual use for this? I am no expert on brewing or space travel and was wondering if there could be a practical use for this. Anyone?
"Patience is a virtue, afforded those with nothing better to do." - I don't remember
Can orbital microbrew be far behind? If one millilitre isn't a microbrew, I don't know what is.
A: A semicolon!
Hahaha!
As a raging alcoholic, I firmly advocate the utilization of multi-billion dollar technology to create an orbital version of a substance only slightly less common than water.
Duffman thinks the ISS needs a mascot! Hoh yeah! *thrust*
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
It sounds like they used a bottom fermenting yeast... how would that have compared with a top fermenter? I personally don't drink heavily carbonated beers, prefering ales and *Guinness*. It's hardly a surprise that they used a bottom fermenting yeast consider Coors sponsored the event: they make a beer that uses carbonation as one of the mechanisms for hiding the flavour. (The other mechanism is of course refridgeration). I wonder if a top-fermenting yeast used in space would give a more carbonated ale? But, at the end of the day, this being Coors, they're looking at ways of increasing alcohol content without regard to taste (which is why brewers in Coor's league freeze their beers).
All you need is a giant space stomach for all that space beer in the evening and you can get some great propulsion in the morning.
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
With proper respects to John Madden, I guess it's settled.
Less filling!
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
There is already plenty of alcohol in space.
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we all know that alcohol as astronauts don't mix...this gives ``drunk driving'' a whole new meaning ;)
Nice to know that NASA has thier priorities straight. I wonder what napkin they dreampt this little venture on and when it is going on ebay?
Forget trying to build the IIS, I want to focus on getting beer up there. The really important stuff.
And I laughed when Jerry Sienfeld joked about bring a car to the moon; how it was the ultimate male idea. Brining a car to the moon so we coule drive around.
Now we have beer...guess they'll have to make it illegal to drive drunk on the moon aswell, before we have an accident.
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gautier
Over the past week, America has witnessed a new birth of patriotism -- Wal-Marts can't keep
enough flags in stock to supply the teeming hordes who want them, ribbon manufacturers are
working overtime to ensure that every American who is feeling the new spirit can wrap himself
in red, white, and blue as proudly as he would wear the Purple Heart. At the same time,
Americans are canceling the plane trip to Grandma's house and calling ahead to make sure
the candlelight vigil they plan on attending won't have too many strangers there -- you can't
be too careful these days. "Summer soldier" and "sunshine patriot" used to be terms of
contempt; now acting like one is considered to be the true test of citizenship. The Spirit
of 2001 has arrived.
This week, I saw a very interesting segment on the local TV news -- a reporter interviewing
three recruiters from the armed forces. They seemed embarrassed to be there. When asked
whether last week's terrorist attacks had spurred an increase in volunteering, the replies
were upbeat. "Well, we're getting a lot more phone calls," said one. But then he admitted
that most of these calls were from ex-servicemen in their 40's and 50's. He advised these
men to talk to their sons and nephews, to encourage them to enlist.
Forlorn hope! Many of these men don't have son or nephews, since our birthrate has been
plummeting while that of our parasites has soared. Even those veterans who do have young
kinsmen must be shaking their heads at the task before them: overcoming the lifetime of
indoctrination these young men have received in hating everything this country once was --
decent, honest, law-abiding, and White. My advice is: Don't try. The country is no longer
ours, and we should not let our blood be spilled unless the fight is to reclaim that which
is being stolen from us. This is shaping up to be the Jews' war and the White man's fight,
once again. Don't delude yourself -- our participation in this war won't be any more in
our interest than these other wars were, namely, not at all.
So at your next family gathering, take a good look at your young male relatives -- look at
what has been done to them by those intent on our destruction. How many of them have green
hair, pierced tongues, and bad attitudes? How many of them call you a "homophobe" if you
criticize the safety pin through their earlobe? How many of them are completely ignorant
of American history except, of course, for outrageous lies about the Marxist holy trinity
of race, gender, and class conflict? Far too many, I suspect. Leave them alone, for now.
Let the Jews try to harvest a crop of White cannon fodder from the seeds of irresponsibility
and racial self-hatred they have sown. But never forget that these young men are of our
blood and we should not forsake them. The time for them will be later.
Our most important task, at present, is to reach those young White men whose indoctrination
is less complete, those who still exhibit the masculine virtues of discipline, self-sacrifice,
and courage. These young men are the best hope for our race, and it is vital that we not
lose them. Don't try to dissuade them with tales of the dangers and hardships they might
face -- this will impel the best of them to enlist. Try to persuade them, instead, that
this is no longer our nation, but a faction-ridden empire, and that fighting for the
interest of a group other than our own is the true act of disloyalty.
Over the past week, the media Jews have been working 24 hours a day to convince us that the
primary target of the terrorist attack was White Gentiles, that New York City is full of
Irish and Italians -- that it is, in fact, a White city, and that the only role that either
Israel or the Jews had in this disaster is to weep publicly over the loss of their beloved
goy countrymen. Lies, damned lies, all!
The reason they are waving the bloody shirt over the corpses of our race is because they
know that without Whites, they cannot even wage a war, let alone win it. Imagine an army
with Jewish officers, Mexican sergeants, and black privates. Even if infighting didn't
destroy it, an army like this would soon collapse out of sheer incompetence and
thievery.
On Nightline recently, Ted Koppel started putting the Jews' cards on the table,
outlining a strategy where the only ground forces involved would be U.S. elite units and
Afghan "rebels." What a Dream Team -- the only Afghanis that our guys could trust in this
scenario would be the Taliban -- at least they would always be trying to kill us,
while the "rebels" would smile back at us until the time came to turn on us and start
back-stabbing.
Of course, the major emphasis has been on the elite forces: the Army Rangers, Navy SEALS,
and Marine Corps Recon units, to name a few. Besides tremendous physical conditioning, the
men in these units are required to demonstrate intelligence, resourcefulness, and
teamwork. The high requirements ensure that these units are overwhelmingly White. These
men are among the best of our race, and I dread what is in store for them.
I believe there is a widespread, but as yet unspoken, fear of what will happen if rank and
file Army units are called upon to fight. The Army is a far cry from the one which fought
the Gulf War ten years ago. Even then, many of the female warriors got emergency
reassignments stateside due to "unexpected" pregnancies. Apparently, the stress of being
in a potential combat area caused many of them to lose their concentration and slip up on
their oral contraceptive schedules. Today, I wonder how many of the amazons in the Janet
Reno Regiment of the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Brigade have decided that a brief
excursion into heterosexuality is in order, and are trolling for a mercy fuck before
shipping out.
Once again, our enemies are reaping what they have sown. Even before the 1990s, the armed
forces were used as a sandbox for social experiments by nitwit government psychologists,
but there were always enough sensible people around who put the reason for their existence
-- fighting wars -- first. But the Clinton Administration turned this on its head. They
believed that all future wars would be waged by bombing defenseless people from 20,000
feet, so the Army could feel free to build its New Jerusalem for parasites and
queers.
That is why we are seeing this binge of flag-waving and "God Bless America," the scrolls on
the TV reading "America Under Attack," "America Unites," and "America Fights Back." The
Jews are trying to temporarily reverse, in a short period of time, the indoctrination
they've been feeding us for decades. That is why our TV screens have been filled with the
grieving families of White victims, stoic White policemen, brave White firemen, and
dedicated White rescue workers for the past week. After so many years of working to
destroy him, they once again desperately need the White Man they so thoroughly detest.
They are force-feeding us what they hope will be a quick antidote to the poison they have
been swilling out for decades.<br>
If the war proves to be a long one, White volunteers will be required if the Jews are to
succeed. Large numbers of Whites will be needed to rebuild the corrupted military they
have made, and if we don't volunteer, a draft is the only alternative.
Conscription would be a very risky enterprise. It would inevitably sweep in huge numbers
of diversity parasites who believe the only reason the government exists is to fork over
the White man's money. Drafting them would both ruin the quality of the service and stoke
inter-racial hostility at home. Forcing the Jews to take this measure should be our goal,
which is another good reason we need to keep our men from enlisting.
Despite all the lies we've been fed, many hundreds of good White people did lose their
lives in the terrorist attacks. Many of them were extremely brave White firemen who lost
their lives saving Jews who consider them, and us, cattle. We should take full revenge
against those who killed our people, but only on our terms, and in a way that serves
our interests. "Revenge is a dish which is best served cold." We should take care of the
terrorists in due course, but the real peril to our race is here at home.
Today, we should remind our youth that all of the armies which fought in our past wars were
overwhelmingly White. We have been told for so long that "Diversity is good for us," well,
here is their chance to show it. Let this be our battle-cry -- "White Men, stand aside,
let Diversity prove its Worth!"
ETIENNE BRULE
i'm sure some of those naughty cosmonauts have been brewing the good stuff up there for years! share the wealth man...share the wealth. maybe they've found the best shot at making space profitable (read: sell us space beer. we pay money.)
Considering she worked for Coors, maybe she should first become interested in how beer is brewed on Earth.
If you're interested in beer on Earth, check out the Fremont Oktoberfest this weekend in Seattle!
Sex (been there), beer (done that), ...
Space rocks, man!
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
This concerns me on what NASA is spending my tax money on, can't they do something cool like find out if there really is LIFE ON MARS!
and they don't like you.
you can't get beers in space, I will refuse to leave earth! :p
When we're winning
We'll be singing
I get knocked down
But I dont give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away
He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:
"We could walk for ever
walking on
walking on the moon..."
I get knocked down
But I don't give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away
He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:
"This is ground control to Major Tom
Take your protein pill and put your helmet on..."
I get knocked down
But I don't give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing
Time to send up some master brewers with a few tons of hops and malt. Let them play with various batches and send the "space brew" back to earth.
Hell, I'd pay about $100 for a drink of space brew if it had orbited the earth a few thousand times. NASA could send up the raw materials on cheap(er) rockets, and sell the brew for a good profit. A few thousand litres could pay for a shuttle flight.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
It's NASA's new funding model. With Congressional support going down and other monies being directed to the "war", they thught they needed some other source of funds.... Soooo.... Next month the brewery module is being attached to the ISS. =;]
-sig
Folks,
I think it's going to be one heck of a challenge to make alcoholic beverages in the microgravity environment of space.
The reason is simple: just about every alcoholic beverage requires the use of gravity to control the fermenting process. There will be no such thing as top-fermented (British-style) beer or bottom-fermented (Central European-style) beer, for starters.
I wouldn't be surprised that a major Germany brewery or a British brewery will sponsor a major test of how beer brews in space that will be run on the Columbus module on the International Space Station.
Space as in "beer", or space as in "between your ears"?
Finally, Slashdot's two favorite pasttimes, space travel and beer, have been combined in a glorious science experiment!
:)
I know that this catch-phrase has been overused as of late, but...
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
I guess it must be pretty easy to pour a black & tan in zero-grav, no?
The further someone is from the protection of Earth's atmosphere the more they are exposed to Solar radiation. One of the big problems with brewing beer is to keep the yeast the same - not have it mutating on you.
It seems to me that brewing in space without complete shielding would leave the process defenceless against producing a truly vile beer.
I'd be more impressed if they did some distilling. Moon moonshine would be an accomplishment and the process is dangerous/more daring.:)
IMHO, as per
J:)
Oh well, no point in steering now.
Sign me up!
Does anyone know how beer bubbels in zero gravity?
Does it bubble at all? In if so... what will they do? Will the bubbles just float around at random, increasing in size by collision?
Eat it.
a na.html [not my site, but useful]
lasts longer + stronger, tho takes a while to kick in, as opposed to the instant effect of smoking/vapourising.
As for growing your own: http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/dopefiend420/mariju
And its bloody easy... 2 X 8 watt florescent inspection lights [probly $10-15, i paid £9.99 each @ maplin] across the top of a 12"w x 18"D plastic tub [painted brilliant white, not silver or lined with foil!] Your initial grow chamber.
Why? Cos I dont wanna fund organised crime, including child prostitution [12 year old girls sellin their bodys kinda gets me tense!], extortion, gun importa, heroin + crack pushing, etc.....
Oh and ever wondered what is in/on that shit/weed?
Ali
www.ali-d.abel.co.uk
I don't know about all of you, but I am ecstatic about the fact that we spend billions on the space program just to make sure that we can brew beer when we pollute this planet so much we have to leave. I can rest easy now.
Dude where's my space shuttle...
Could they possibly waste our tax dollars more blatently. Don't they ever do anything USEFULL in the space program??
Check out my weird-but-true article
"Fat Slobs in Space."
I've worked with the Space program many years...
"... First of all, being seriously overweight might just be the best way to avoid the motion sickness that plagues a third of astronauts in orbit.... if you are grossly obese, we cannot get you sick."
Check out my weird-but-true article
"Fat Slobs in Space."
URL is:
http://magicdragon.com/ComputerFutures/
SpacePublications/Food.html
I've worked with the Space program many years...
"... First of all, being seriously overweight might just be the best way to avoid the motion sickness that plagues a third of astronauts in orbit.... if you are grossly obese, we cannot get you sick."
Unfortunately it doesn't lend itself to the traditional frosty glass mug! Instead, beverages are dispensed into a special bottle (pictured above) that screws onto the dispenser.
Looks like a powerade bottle to me, but I could be wrong.