New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.

[jbox]

Astronomers say they have spotted a cloud of alcohol in deep space that measures 463 billion kilometres across.

[missioncontrol]

cloud of alcohol.... why to just keep putting straws together untill we reach it........

[ErikRuud]

Methanol, an organic (carbon-based) molecule, is a cousin of ethanol, which is found in alcoholic beverages.

Methanol is not suitable for human consumption

 

[missioncontrol]

Methanol, an organic (carbon-based) molecule, is a cousin of ethanol, which is found in alcoholic beverages.

Methanol is not suitable for human consumption

 

so much for the giant straw idea

[thebrownshow]

That has to be the biggest let-down in the history of the universe.

[Virtualmatt]

We could always stick with the giant straw idea - but instead of drinking it, we would have to use it as a crappy fuel for R/C cars or something   

Doesn't really sound like that would be as much fun though 

[USSEnterprise]

Well, people can drink methyl alcohol. People do. Its just very, very bad for you.

[missioncontrol]

I wonder if we could put a filter half way on the straw to filter out the toxins and make it good ol dinking alcohol....


hmmmmmm


we need NASA to get to work on a filter like that

[jbox]

You do understand that 463 billion kilometres worth of ethanol would be just as toxic anyway? Just bring some juice with you to take the edge off of the first few drinks and keep chugging until you are seeing thirty-ton pink mega elephants with bronchial pneumonia everywhere you turn.

[Harry Potter]

Some asshat in a white coat says it's toxic? 

I beg to differ. Time to steal a crapload of straws from Mcdonalds. 

[missioncontrol]

Some asshat in a white coat says it's toxic? 

I beg to differ. Time to steal a crapload of straws from Mcdonalds. 

there we go a voice of reason

[Ed_McCarron]

You do understand that 463 billion kilometres worth of ethanol would be just as toxic anyway? Just bring some juice with you to take the edge off of the first few drinks and keep chugging until you are seeing thirty-ton pink mega elephants with bronchial pneumonia everywhere you turn.

Drink enough methyl alchohol and you won't see anything.  It'll blind you.  Theres an old chemists joke:

Q: You've got a beaker of a colorless substance.  Its either water, ethyl alchohol, or methyl alchohol.  How do you tell which?

A: Drink it, then look at the lamppost across the street.  If you see one lamppost, it was water.  Two lampposts, it was ethyl alchohol.  No lampposts, it was methyl alchohol.

[Harry Potter]

If you see no lamp posts, it's more likely someone nicked them while you were drinking the fairy water.