Astronauts must go without many popular foods and beverages on the International Space Station, including soda — the carbonation goes wacky in space and could wreak havoc on the digestive system; perishable items, because food poisoning would be pretty terrible in space; and alcohol, because it could damage water recovery equipment and impair astronauts' judgment.New Scientist once had an article on beer in space, and noted:
And some have been staples since the early missions. Tang, a beverage nearly synonymous with spaceflight, remains popular among astronauts today. What you won't hear about as often — shrimp cocktail. "Shrimp cocktail has almost forever been [one of] their favorite foods," Bourland says (and Kloeris agrees).
Unfortunately for thirsty astronauts, beer is poorly suited to space consumption because of the gas it includes. Without gravity to draw liquids to the bottoms of their stomachs, leaving gases at the top, astronauts tend to produce wet burps.Burping got coverage in another article, which explained:
“That’s one of the reasons why we don’t have carbonated beverages on the space menu,” NASA spokesperson William Jeffs told New Scientist.
You can't burp in space - at least not like you do here on Earth.
"You can't burp in space because the air, food and liquids in your stomach are all floating together like chunky bubbles," Hadfield replied on Twitter.
"If you burp, you throw up into your mouth. So guess where the trapped air goes?"
But you can try to time your burps right:
If you do end up going to space, there was one enterprising astronaut who found a way to belch without bomiting. According to the book What's it Like in Space? by Ariel Waldman, NASA astronaut and physicist Jim Newman, who has spent 43 days in space, developed what he called the "push and burp."
"He found that by pushing off a wall, he could create a force in lieu of gravity that kept his food down in his stomach, giving him a brief chance at expelling gas without consequence," Waldman wrote.
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So we see how lame space travel is if everything is based around getting there on the back of a firecracker. What a joke.
Bad philosopher-wannabe's would try to tell me you cannot prove a negative. Getting confused between court procedure and epistemology. I would say that there aren't any negatives and that there were only competing hypotheses. They would say "There is a teapot between Mars and Jupiter"
Well of course there is, or there was, if someone has hollowed out any of the larger objects of the asteroid belt??? You wonder what the flying fuck is wrong with these people. Its bad enough that you cannot visit the mountains of New Zealands Fjordland, or Cronulla beach while you are so far away from home. But if you are inside one of these asteroids how would you put up without a proper cup of coffee from a proper coffee pot? Or without tea for that matter. Space travel is no excuse to give up on tea. Only cutting down ones oxalate consumption is an excuse to give up on tea.
This is why tunnelling, big rock masonry, glass-works and permaculture are as crucial to space travel as electro-gravitics. Certainly more important than rocketry. The first hint we had that Elon Musk was going to get involved in real space travel, rather than propaganda alone, was when he proposed starting a company to do with tunnelling. There is no use sending even one rocket up there unless you already have the tunnelling technology and executive experience in-house. If he does send rockets up there its only to near earth orbit or its only as a smokescreen to hide the better technology he's been favoured with.
No organic low-carb low-deuterium beer in the space station? Cutting right down on human comforts and you cannot even have a six-pack to enhance the space experience?
What a joke NASA is. Send them and all their fake event actors to another place and let God sort one from the other. We can do a lot better if we have teamwork between the CSIRO and ASIO. With me as supervisor and given power over suspension of taxeaters from the public teat.
We care about the planet. We really do.
OTTAWA — A trio of Environment Canada bureaucrats ate their way through more than $12,000 worth of fine Parisian cuisine during last fall’s big climate change conference.
https://torontosun.com/2016/08/23/politicians-racked-up-whopping-1-million-bill-in-paris/wcm/0ecdde9a-cce4-47e5-89af-fd485770a097
To use a Jason/Latham way of arguing: so, you're saying only hermits wearing sackcloth are allowed to be advocates for climate change?
(And we know if they did, you'd say to them - don't be stupid, you want to be lifted out of poverty, don't you? The modern capitalist economy can get you proper pants.)
No its disgusting for these known science frauds to be going around flaunting their parasitism off the public teat. There is no capacity to verbal that one away.
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