mmmm popcorn

Wonder if they calculated if ten was statistically significant.

In-flight snacks for space planes? Virgin Airlines^TM official popcorn?

yup, our tax dollars at work...

Still no cure for kernels stuck in your teeth.

Popcorn in space? Now if they can get real artificial butter flavoring to taste good they're onto something.

PROTECT THE QUEEN!

I admit it. I had a crush on the spastic girl in "Real Genius"

/The popcorn reference reminded me of the movie

Couldn't they just pop the popcorn in a vaccuum down here on Earth? Why the balloon?

Postal Penguin: Wonder if they calculated if ten was statistically significant.


10 of 150 is about 6.67%, so I'd say that's statistically significant.

So a class of elementary school students sends a vial of popcorn kernels in to space, and then gets them back and pops them and claim that they're better.

/has a rock to sell them that keeps tigers away.

That was a terrible experiment. The kernels apparently weren't equal in each vial.

Maybe they could use popcorn instead of that foam that keeps breaking the shuttle...
At least that would justify my tax dollars.


/when does this new popcorn hit theaters?
//idiots

llewsyr

yup, our tax dollars at work...

Blah! Got off my lawn, I'm a grouch! Blah, my shorts are too tight.

I bet it wasn't that expensive... if we can afford a 2 Billion dollar a week war, surely we can do a little something to inspire some of our kids back home to take a greater interest in science.

That is all.

I'll remember this the next time that I have some Orville Redenbacher popcorn and a space shuttle on loan.

/DNRTFA

...the space popcorn tasted chewier...

I was under the impression that popcorn was supposed to be crunchy, not chewy.

/eww, chewy popcorn

All the kernels of corn never pop. uhh who the f cares...

back in elementary school, my class managed to get hold of some tomato seeds that were carried up on the space shuttle. we then grew them side by side with some regular tomato seeds, gave them the same water, same sunlight, all that jazz. lo and behold, the space tomatoes grew faster and bigger than the regular tomatoes


the lesson here? space makes everything AWESOME

How do they send the baloon into outer space? is it 'filled' with void?

tkirby
Couldn't they just pop the popcorn in a vaccuum down here on Earth? Why the balloon?

Were they ever even in a vaccuum? They were contained in some sort of vial, and maybe something else around that, either of which could have been airtight.

/methinks there is a cheaper way to thrill kids into science

TheFredSavages: Blah! Got off my lawn, I'm a grouch! Blah, my shorts are too tight.

I bet it wasn't that expensive... if we can afford a 2 Billion dollar a week war, surely we can do a little something to inspire some of our kids back home to take a greater interest in science.

That is all.

I'm sorry your shorts are too tight, first off. Secondly, let's not get started on how we can't afford yet another un-winnable "War on Brown People". As far as getting kids interested in science, mebbe we should, I dunno, fund some science for fark's sake. This isn't science, it's just more PR for the long-overdue-to-be-mothballed Space Shuttle.

What a waste of goddamn time and money--I love how we're teaching our kid's that science supports subjective opinion? Space make popcorn taste better! It's a fact!

Fark needs a "Useless" tag...

Note: The "students" were elementary school children. If you tell a kid that age that his popcorn is space popcorn of course he'll say it tastes better than non-space popcorn. Unless this was a double-blind study, which I doubt for an elementary school, I call BS.

I'm sure the cost of sending popcorn to space had nothing to do with the fact that it 'tastes better'.

Well, I know what I'm wasting my money on if I ever get filthy rich.

"Jeeves, I'm going to watch a movie, and I'd like some popcorn to munch on. Prepare the space rocket, will you? There's a good man."

This is going to look really silly someday when it turns out space popcorn causes cancer.

How do i get my microwave to do that?

Jack31081: 10 of 150 is about 6.67%, so I'd say that's statistically significant.

On one experiment.

I want to see it done on more than 60 to become statistically significant.

/Student T means nothing to me.

I've sometimes wondered - what would happen if you got the 1-in-a-billon bag of microwave popcorn where all the kernals had the same density and moisture content, and they all popped at once?

How big would the explosion be?

Well, that's a confusing article. 20,000ft is hardly outer space and you could even get into space anyway with a balloon. I don't think lying to kids is a good way to teach science.

Interesting. I remember camping at close to 10,000 ft. and decided to pop some jiffy pop. Due to the high altitude it took a really long time to get the popcorn to pop.

The space shuttle's destruction on reentry would have been a bit less tragic for the nation if it were filled with popcorn at the time.

For all you folks that have a problem with the guvment spending money for ballons to send popcorn into space, these guys will do it for free.

http://www.jpaerospace.com/pongsat/index.htm

ah, the old "space popcorn" placebo effect

Mofo_Jones [TotalFark]

In-flight snacks for space planes? Virgin AirlinesTM official popcorn?

Virgin Galactic, I think you mean.

They can send popcorn up into space, but they can't educate someone to be a doctor .
Do you know why doctors take so long to diagnose your illness? They have to filter through all of that spam on google before they get to the medical suggestions page.

Also discovered: Some IT guy will still overcook them in the microwave and make the entire ISS reek of burned kernels.

Fark you IT guy!