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(Some Guy)   Astronomers announce discovering a giant-ass cloud of space alcohol. All of a sudden, manned spaceflight starts looking feasible again   ( labnews.co.uk) divider line
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jestme
2006-03-31 10:59:38 AM  
Why did I read that as "giant ass-cloud"?
 
envail
2006-03-31 11:06:01 AM  
Ah, so Drew is going to start saving up to be a space tourist now.
 
dittybopper [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 11:17:21 AM  
[image from img354.imageshack.us too old to be available]

It's booze Jim, but not as we know it.
 
vonClogg
2006-03-31 11:19:42 AM  
jestme
Why did I read that as "giant ass-cloud"?

You are not alone....
 
Stoj [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 11:36:10 AM  
Mmmm... space alcohol....
 
Beli Tsar
2006-03-31 12:25:05 PM  
In a related story, Drew Curtis becomes major investor in Virgin Galactic. Stock options for TFarkers to follow.
 
st_gulik
2006-03-31 01:53:37 PM  
Beli Tsar: In a related story, Drew Curtis becomes major investor in Virgin Galactic. Stock options for TFarkers to follow.

Oh Oh! I want stock options in Virgin Galactic!

Especially if there are Blue Alien Women who give me space beer!
 
Mr. Clarence Butterworth
2006-03-31 02:07:58 PM  
We need a big farking straw, and tons of those little paper umbrellas, then
 
onomatopoetic
2006-03-31 02:09:14 PM  
 
foo monkey [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 02:09:15 PM  
Shirley astrometers half butter grammer then these.
 
WolfinPHX
2006-03-31 02:09:48 PM  
[image from popmatters.com too old to be available]
In other news, NASA releases photo to the press of their next shuttle crew.

/see you, space cowboy
 
slideaway
2006-03-31 02:09:50 PM  
not a big deal or anything, but can you really say this thing is ALMOST 300 billion miles wide when in reality it is 288 billion miles wide. i mean 12 billion miles is alot of farkin miles

/another usless post by me
 
Dr. Picklebacon
2006-03-31 02:10:53 PM  
JestMe, vonClogg
Why did I read that as "giant ass-cloud"?

so very not alone.
 
de.evolved
2006-03-31 02:11:17 PM  
Ass clouds sound terribly frightening.
 
Gsm136 [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 02:11:48 PM  
Some People call me the space Cowboy

Thats a lot of Alcohol
/Yee haw
 
timecrash2001
2006-03-31 02:13:09 PM  
methanol eh? 300 billion kilometers across you say?

....anyone wanna get blind drunk?
 
Koalaesq
2006-03-31 02:15:14 PM  
Ground Control to Major Tom???

...crap, he's drunk again...
 
Makh [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 02:19:28 PM  
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster?
 
spiralscratch
2006-03-31 02:19:40 PM  
Does this mean that Ireland will start up its own space program?

Too bad for them the Russians already have a head start.
 
Zaphodius
2006-03-31 02:23:39 PM  
288 billion mile wide Ass-Cloud filled with alcohol...

maybe the sorority nebula?
 
Mohawk742
2006-03-31 02:25:45 PM  
"...unfortunately methanol, unlike its chemical cousin ethanol, is not suitable for human consumption!


Nutz!
 
nnobodyman
2006-03-31 02:26:59 PM  
Just exactly how big must something be to qualify as an ass cloud?
 
Zaphodius
2006-03-31 02:28:21 PM  
If it's methanol, then I guess our addiction to hydro carbons has no worries... let's start pumping...
 
StrikitRich [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 02:29:01 PM  
Giant-ass clouds of methanol? Is there some smug out there, too?
 
eqtworld
2006-03-31 02:30:06 PM  
It is weird that there is natural gas floating around in space.

We breathe in methane every day...

Its almost like this world with life on it is an accident, a grouping of molecules that are abundant all over the universe just reacting and being bathed by the heat of a star.
 
Zaphodius
2006-03-31 02:30:32 PM  
nnobodyman Just exactly how big must something be to qualify as an ass cloud? I suppose if it were republican it would be a tight ass cloud...

/sorry... no offense... really, just had to go there
 
Dimensio [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 02:31:11 PM  
"I'm on it!"
 
wingnutx
2006-03-31 02:31:54 PM  
I'm holding out for a giant cloud of space-ganja.
 
Dimensio [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 02:32:21 PM  
Apologies. Apparently the site did not approve of linked images.

[image from upload.wikimedia.org too old to be available]

"I'm on it!"
 
Zaphodius
2006-03-31 02:34:21 PM  
wingnutx
I'm holding out for a giant cloud of space-ganja.

Sorry all you'll get is a second hand buzz
 
CigBairyHunt
2006-03-31 02:38:42 PM  
That's where the Biavians got their alcohol before Riley Martin taught them how to make an excellent beer.

/obscure
 
joman
2006-03-31 02:45:53 PM  
Years old news, astronomers have already found giant-ass clouds of ethanol (beer alcohol) which are larger than the volume of alcohol produced in the entire natural history of earth. Interesting not only because of obvious applications but because it is quite amazing that a molecule as relatively complex as ethanol can be produced in what can only be assumed are totally sterile conditions.
 
polecat_bastard
2006-03-31 02:55:42 PM  
this particular cloud is methanol. that means it's useful only as juice for your wandering space hobo who doesn't care about his eyesight.
 
CigBairyHunt
2006-03-31 02:56:25 PM  
I'm not sure how complicated a 6 atom molecule is - i'm too lazy to google it right now, but isn't ethanol CH3OH?

/too lazy to figure out how to make the '3' subscript.
// going to a meeting in 7 min.
/// loves friday afternoon meetings more than slashies.
 
forensik
2006-03-31 02:58:49 PM  
joman,

I am no scientist, but wouldn't the vacume of space be a sterile environment?
 
wjllope
2006-03-31 03:04:29 PM  
polecat_bastard: that means it's useful only as juice for your wandering space hobo who doesn't care about his eyesight.

and the cloud density is probably 0.00000000000000000001 molecules/parsec, or of that order....

i've been told a million times not to exaggerate
 
wingnutx
2006-03-31 03:07:03 PM  
Break out the Bussard-Ramkeg

/first toast is to Larry Niven
 
el_kabong777
2006-03-31 03:09:45 PM  
Cig

CH3OH is methanol; C2H5OH is ethanol.
 
Inflatable Rhetoric
2006-03-31 03:11:06 PM  
This article was first published Apr 4, 2006?? I don't get that.
 
wingnutx
2006-03-31 03:15:50 PM  
The reporter was posting at relativistic speeds.
 
Mind Blender
2006-03-31 03:17:12 PM  
Didn't Captain Kirk save the day once by insanely firing photon torpedoes into a few of these Giant-ass Booze Clouds, which blew up whoever the hell was chasing them at the time?
 
thespindrifter
2006-03-31 03:29:09 PM  
Mmmmmmm, Vindaloo curried Space Weevil, with a side of Methanol Lager. Yum! Sign me up for the next JMC mission!
 
Gsm136 [TotalFark]
2006-03-31 03:46:38 PM  
[image from daen.dk too old to be available]
thespindrifter

Theres one leaving in 10 Minutes

No Cats
/Their dead Dave
//There all Dead Dave
///All hail lord Slashie
 
HOPWhiteyFord
2006-03-31 03:54:03 PM  
Inflatable Rhetoric
I think that date is going to be the actual print publish date... you see it sometimes when looking through journals online, they have the publish date after the actual date.
 
MrBonestripper
2006-03-31 03:57:18 PM  
Zaphod Beeblebrox unavailable for comment.
 
xterraguy
2006-03-31 04:13:51 PM  
CH3OH is methanol; C2H5OH is ethanol

Why the hell don't they just call it CH4O and C2H6O instead?

/just kidding, I was a chemistry nut.
//Organic Chemistry in college killed my enthusiasm for chemistry.
///Had lots of fun playing with NI3 in high school, and a 1 lb. ingot of Na I procured in college.
////Why the hell don't tue sub(script) tags work?
//Slash on... on...
 
wjllope
2006-03-31 04:25:12 PM  
xterraguy: Organic Chemistry in college killed my enthusiasm for chemistry.

yeah - been there - there's nothing worse than coming back from 4hrs of chem lab smelling like toluene & other heinous chemicals and basically having to strip down to the undies before coming inside... the #1 reason i am not a chemist
 
fernandez
2006-03-31 04:53:15 PM  
foo monkey


Shirley astrometers half butter grammer then these.


most of the time, they do

/and stop calling me shirley
 
Tainted1
2006-03-31 05:04:00 PM  
A 288 billion mile wide cloud of methanol?
Now all we need is a spacefold/warp/hyperdrive, a bussard ramscoop, and some uber-space tankers and we can take care of the energy shortage just about anywhere.
 
el_kabong777
2006-03-31 06:06:51 PM  
xterraguy

Mmmm - nitrogen triiodide. Phosphorus can be fun too.
 
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