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| Can beer be brewed on the MOON? |
| 2017-01-24 |
| h/t Instapundit Russia will land its first cosmonauts on the moon in 2031. Meanwhile, Nasa says we could colonise the moon by 2022 for a total cost of just $10 billion (£6.4 billion). But one important question for our future life on moon is yet to be answered - whether or not beer can be brewed in space. Now a group of students are setting out to answer this question, by brewing a batch of beer on the moon. A team of University of California, San Diego students are competing to send an experiment to the moon, aboard a spacecraft built by Indian startup TeamIndus. Because Columbus wasn't a dope |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Only light beer. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-01-24 19:23 |
| #4 This still doesn't answer Rowsdower's question. MST3K fans will understand. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-01-24 19:08 |
| #3 B. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-01-24 10:52 |
| #2 It makes it a bit problematic after it is drunk since you will burp and it would be a liquid burp. Liquid burps, lumpy flatulence, the challenges of growing old. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-24 09:38 |
| #1 Yes it can. On the moon where there is gravity you could have the traditional beer that is carbonated. In space... little more tricky. Microgravity keeps the CO2 from separating with the liquid, just like oil and water mixed in zero g don't separate. It makes it a bit problematic after it is drunk since you will burp and it would be a liquid burp. There is actually a brewery in Australia that is perfecting a flat beer that can be taken and drunk in zero g safely while still tasting similar to what we drink on the ground. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-01-24 09:05 |