Beer in Space!
Astronomers find alcohol cloud spanning 288 billion miles!
Well, not beer exactly. But they did find alcohol: ethyl alcohol, to be precise, the active ingredient in all major alcoholic drinks.
Three British scientists, Drs. Tom Millar, Geoffrey MacDonald and Rolf Habing, discovered this interstellar Everclear floating in a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila.
Millar and his compatriots have estimated the size of this gas cloud at approximately 1,000 times the diameter of our own solar system; there's enough alcohol out there, they say, to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The medical world would not exist without the benefits of Alcohol.
For theists who don't believe..:)
http://phys.org/news63346824.html
That cloud might be banned from passing over this parts
Even the religious know that alcohol exists, there is proof. You can see it, smell it and taste it. More than you can say for some things or ideas...
Is this why an American company is starting tourist voyages to space?
I heard that Qatar is going to manage this alcohol cloud.
From now on, anybody visiting this cloud:
1.Must have their QDC permit with them
2.They will have their ID's scanned and sent to the CID
3.People wearing thobes are not allowed to enter the cloud
4.Sheesha is not allowed because the smoke will mix with the cloud
You found my heaven. Stay away, it's all mine. My God lives there.
@Knight Returns , thanks man!
I just remembered I've seen a documentary about Stanley Miller's works, but not Max!
Thanks.
It wasn't a joke
Blosted,
It was Max Bernstein who passed UV through some polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and created organic molecules of quinones, ketones, alcohols and ethers.
Also, Stanley Miller, a chemistry student passed electric current through ammonia, carbon dioxide, hydrogen etc. to create building blocks of life - amino acids.
So, we see that methyl alcohol could have been produced by high energy electromagnetic radiation through PAH that is said to be so most abundantly found organic material in the universe.
reading this gave me a new high :-P
@KnightReturns, name of the experiment or the Scientist?
I really need to stay updated , but no local Science magazines around.
dp
Guys, its not a joke. They did find this alcohol cloud spanning about 288 billion miles but radiations from the gas cloud indicated that most of it was methyle alcohol which as we know is poisonous..:( The blogger actually changed a bit of the facts to make things more interesting!!
On a serious note, I recall reading about an experiment when some scientist passed UV/electric sparks through some inorganic gases and created organic molecules. So, creation of alcohol clouds by natural means is not something impossible.
I guess it would make ,home making alcohol easier!
Sounds like an ideal spot for a vacation.
Mars bar washed down with a pint followed by a galaxy washed down with another pint & finally a Milky Way washed down with one last pint. There is more life out there than we could ever imagine
i'm moving to that galaxy, if they have a kebab planet next to the alcohol cloud.