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Title: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: jbox on April 06, 2006, 03:47:13 am
Astronomers say they have spotted a cloud of alcohol in deep space that measures 463 billion kilometres across. (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1607840.htm)
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: missioncontrol on April 06, 2006, 05:34:48 am
cloud of alcohol.... why to just keep putting straws together untill we reach it........
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: ErikRuud on April 06, 2006, 08:53:56 am
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Methanol, an organic (carbon-based) molecule, is a cousin of ethanol, which is found in alcoholic beverages.

Methanol is not suitable for human consumption

 :badmood:
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: missioncontrol on April 06, 2006, 10:40:34 am
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Methanol, an organic (carbon-based) molecule, is a cousin of ethanol, which is found in alcoholic beverages.

Methanol is not suitable for human consumption

 :badmood:

so much for the giant straw idea
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: thebrownshow on April 06, 2006, 01:23:22 pm
That has to be the biggest let-down in the history of the universe.
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: Virtualmatt on April 06, 2006, 01:40:40 pm
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   ;D

Doesn't really sound like that would be as much fun though  :-\
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: USSEnterprise on April 06, 2006, 03:12:48 pm
Well, people can drink methyl alcohol. People do. Its just very, very bad for you.
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: missioncontrol on April 06, 2006, 11:27:42 pm
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
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: jbox on April 07, 2006, 03:15:19 am
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. :cheers:
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: Harry Potter on April 07, 2006, 01:42:19 pm
Some asshat in a white coat says it's toxic?  :blah:

I beg to differ. Time to steal a crapload of straws from Mcdonalds.  ;D
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: missioncontrol on April 07, 2006, 03:10:14 pm
Some asshat in a white coat says it's toxic?  :blah:

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

there we go a voice of reason
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: Ed_McCarron on April 07, 2006, 03:59:37 pm
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. :cheers:

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.
Title: Re: New project idea - BYOAC Spaceship.
Post by: Harry Potter on April 07, 2006, 04:02:36 pm
If you see no lamp posts, it's more likely someone nicked them while you were drinking the fairy water.