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Space Coffee, Just the Way You Like It
Zothecula writes "Since the early days of space travel, a consistent complaint has been lousy coffee. Now a group of freshman engineering students at Rice University have developed a simple approach to alleviating this problem. From the article: 'The challenge was to develop a method and equipment that allows astronauts to add liquid ingredients (cream, sweetener, and lemon juice) from a foil package to another that contains black coffee or tea. No spills in microgravity can be allowed, as these have a tendency to migrate into equipment and cause faults. The Rice freshmen designed their system around the existing black coffee pouches. NASA supplied them two-ply heat sealed pouches to hold the sugar syrup and cream. The beverage and condiment pouches all have a septum which allows access to their contents without allowing any of the liquid contents to escape.'"
"No spills in microgravity can be allowed, as these have a tendency to migrate into equipment and cause faults. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMtXfwk7PXg
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
And here, kids, we have a perfect example for the use of the term 'non sequitur'.
The point he was trying to make is that NASA are misdrecting their resources. Not that this coffee is meant for the moon.
which is totally what she said