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Cold Sugar Cloud Found in Space
Roland Piquepaille writes "A cloud filled with simple molecules of sugar has been found 26,000 light-years away from us, near the middle of our galaxy. The 8-atom sugar molecules exist in a gas cloud named Sagittarius B2 at a temperature of only 8 degrees above absolute zero. Too far and too cold to bake your next cake! However, even if chemistry reactions on Earth and in this frigid sugar cloud are very different, astronomers think this discovery "suggests how the molecular building blocks necessary for the creation of life could first form in interstellar space." Please read the original article for more details or just enjoy these illustrations describing how prebiotic chemistry -- the formation of the molecular building blocks necessary for the creation of life -- occurs in interstellar clouds."
Come on, somebody had to say it!
That's more bad news for low-carb dieters.
Mmmmmmmmm.....interstellar doughnuts.....
nos laetus epulor qui would domito nos
first you get the sugar
then you get the power
then you get the women.
me fail english? thats unpossible
a low-calorie version of the cloud has been found in another region of space, but exploration is out of the question because of the high aspartame content.
If you played Sinistar, you know that all planetoids contain little sugar crystals. Some are especially sweet (the tiny, slightly non-spherical ones). So whenever we humans invent warping, we must remember not go over there, otherwise our ships will be devoured like all those little sweet sugar crystals.
0- Eamonman Proud member of DNRC
Yes, it's in the Milky Way.
the Alien Ant collony that lives nearby yet?
...This just. Intergalactic highway r-405-g, was brought to an atomic halt when a space trucker from Andromeda's Pure Cane Sugar (IG Stk: APCS) planet blew an airlock and 40million cubic meters of the sweet stuff was left over 38 light years. APCS has denied any wrong doing but said that clean efforts would begin immeadiately. The trucker in question was later found at the Orion Unemployment Office, Nebulous Division. When asked for comment, he stated "I don't know what happened! One minute I was cruisen at 30 parsecs the next thing kablooie!! Everything went nova! I think the IGPF [Intergalactic Police Force] said something about triffles or truffles or something like that." We will have further updates as they become available. In other news...
Your actions in life will determine your children's future.
Heh. What would the -1s be?
-1, Duplicate.
-1, JonKatz
-1, Spam
a giant cloud of sugar in the middle of our galaxy, eh?
so if a supernova happened upon this cloud...might the milky way end up with a giant caramel center?
On a related note, representatives for Krispy Kreme are planning a stock split to finance an interstellar mission to retreive this bonanza of free ingredients.
"Its just a damn shame it so far away" said Frank Jitters, spokesman for Krispy Kreme "even then, we are absolutely committed to the mission. We have spoken with NASA, JPL, EPA, BS, and other authorities and we all agree that a rocket powered by the bullshit created on Roland Piquepailles weblog will give us sufficient power to achieve our goals".
Representatives from Dunkin Donuts and Tim Hortons were unavailable for comment.