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Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com)
Bryan Lufkin, writing for BBC: "Alcohol is not permitted onboard the International Space Station for consumption," says Daniel G Huot, spokesperson for Nasa's Johnson Space Center. "Use of alcohol and other volatile compounds are controlled on ISS due to impacts their compounds can have on the station's water recovery system." For this reason, astronauts on the space station are not even provided with products that contain alcohol, like mouthwash, perfume, or aftershave. Spilling beer during some drunken orbital hijinks could also risk damaging equipment. [...] There could be another reason to avoid frothy drinks like beer -- without the assistance of gravity, liquid and gases can tumble around in an astronaut's stomach, causing them to produce rather soggy burps.
You are doing it wrong, if having sex makes you vomit.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Drunk Astronauts!
If you thought science was a serious business then you haven't met these astronauts! Watch them try to conduct science experiments with an average BAC of 0.15! If you've ever felt light on your feet, see what it's like for trained professionals to be hammered in zero gravity! You'll be sitting on the edge of your seat when these men and women perform spacewalks when they couldn't even walk straight on solid ground!
Brought to you by Papa Johns, who will be giving away free pizzas whenever the ISS sustains damages of at least $1,000,000 in a single episode.
Old joke: How do you get a Russian to the legal alcohol limit?
Sober him up for a week or two.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Here on Earth, a burp is loud or smelly, but in space, it's a form of THRUST.
Russians typically get disoriented if there is too much blood in their vodka system.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
It's not like they can open a window, and air out the fumes.
Sure they can. In fact it'd do the job really well.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.