Can You Make Alcohol in Space?
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Scientists sent the ingredients to brew beer and age whisky into space. What they got back was surprising. Want more SciShow in person? We'll be at NerdCon: Nerdfighteria in Boston on February 25th and 26th! For more information, go to http://www.nerdconnerdfighteria.com/ Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Bella Nash, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Tim Curwick, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Bryce Daifuku, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/13/buzz-aldrin-communion-moon http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/BourlandCT/BourlandCT_4-7-06.htm http://www.theblackvault.com/documents/space/skylabsherry.pdf http://lfbisson.ucdavis.edu/PDF/VEN124%20Section%203.pdf http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21sep_1/ https://www.ardbeg.com/CDN/ardbeg-media/ardbeg/supernova/ARD9109SupernovaWhitePaperA4.pdf http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-34168471 http://www.popsci.com/what-happens-in-whiskey-barrel-over-half-century Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-129_Zvezda_sunrise.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-116_spacewalk_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_SEM.jpg
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The generalization about wine = grape booze isn't accurate. Wine actually includes honey wine (mead), fermented sugar water, and kumis (because it's fermented from sugars rather than starches boiled into a mash) is more like a wine even though it's made from milk.
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What if you created a small machine for containing whatever you're fermenting in some kind of centrifuge? To imitate gravity by centripetal force?
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alcohol is the devils drink; car death occurs, women are rape, kids are beaten, homicide and suicide increases, birth deformation etc...
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Have a happy new year y'all
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Sounds like thd yeast was activated before launch in both cases. Maybe they didn`t like. the stress of the launch and a dry yeast activated. in space would fair better? Maybe if the yeast were in a certrafuge to mimic fast enough to some gravity but not so fast as to cause a stressful coreolous effect? The spin limit should testable on Earth using the taste tests described in the video.
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I make videos on astronomy! Have a good day!
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Nase does not, Roscosmos does allow it. I think some others can on certain occasion as well.
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Just drink urine mixed with salt BEST BEER EVER
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Further research required or I won't be signing up to colonise Mars with its lower than Earth gravity.
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but how about making cured, smoked meats in space? would that work?
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But what about chocolate milk?
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The First Beer to fly with Soyuz 29 into Space was branded Zlatý Bažant and is still made in Hurbanovo, Slovakia some 10km from where I live.
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NASA should consider making more... it would be nothing like Romanee-Conti's taste but, oh, price is right
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don't worry uranus will solve our problems
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these results are intresting. but i thought that chemical reaction are the same on earth as well as in space. where is the difference here? bacteria are nothing else than tiny chemical reactors floating in a liquide..
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Next week they make a shot of heroine in space.
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Now repeat both experiments with the space samples in various levels of artificial gravity from a centrifuge!!!
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I wonder if the process of launching and landing affects the taste in any way. Or if the smoky flavor could be linked to factors other than microgravity (eg increased exposure to ionizing radiation).
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So what you're saying is if humans are ever welcomed into a galactic community earth is probably going to become the liquor store of the galaxy
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