Ravenous Pigeon Digest

26.6.11

I meant to post this a while ago but the worlds first Space Beer (or perhaps the galaxy's) is going to be a local Sydney brew. Specially designed for space and intended for tourists when the Virgin Galactic trips start to get going, it's the first beer designed for zero gravity ..apparently. The design process was not without issues.

Another issue is the lack of gravity to separate air and liquid in the stomach, which Mitchell explained could cause "wet burps" in space..

When you're on Earth, the gravity actually separates the air and the liquid such that if you burp, you burp the air, whereas when you're just floating around in space you can do what's called wet burps, which are little suspended balls of liquid just hovering around," he said.


Yuk.

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