New feature idea: Booze Mining

MarcusVatta · Oct 26, 2015

An excerpt from an article found here: http://www.voanews.com/content/lovejoy-comet-releasing-massive-amounts-of-alcohol/3023097.html

There is a free cocktail party going on, but the only catch is you’ll need to get to the comet Lovejoy to partake.

Astronomers revealed that the comet is “releasing as much alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity," according to the Paris Observatory's Nicolas Biver, lead author of a paper on the discovery published Oct. 23 in Science Advances.

In addition to ethyl alcohol, the comet is also releasing glycolaldehyde, a simple sugar...

So. We can mine comets for whiskey while still remaining true to science. This kind of needs to be in the game, dontchathink?

OfftheRails · Oct 26, 2015

If it's also releasing sugar, that's closer to rum than to whiskey. Yo ho ho I say.

Katejina · Oct 26, 2015

God our universe is crazy.

Porina · Oct 26, 2015

OfftheRails said:
If it's also releasing sugar, that's closer to rum than to whiskey. Yo ho ho I say.

Depending on the strength, sounds more like an alcopop to me. Hope it doesn't have too much ice in it, whatever it is.

Some1else · Oct 26, 2015

Katejina said:
God our universe is crazy.

Our crazy universe is God.

Fixed.

Cody · Oct 26, 2015

I heard tell that Drunks of Sol have plans for a bottling plant on the comet.

MarcusVatta · Oct 26, 2015

Porina said:
Depending on the strength, sounds more like an alcopop to me. Hope it doesn't have too much ice in it, whatever it is.

It's a comet. It'll be on the rocks, whatever we call it.

Hootmon · Oct 26, 2015

OfftheRails said:
If it's also releasing sugar, that's closer to rum than to whiskey. Yo ho ho I say.

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Navynuke99 · Oct 27, 2015

Porina said:
Depending on the strength, sounds more like an alcopop to me. Hope it doesn't have too much ice in it, whatever it is.

So does that make it shaken, instead of stirred?

Traveller_GG · Oct 27, 2015

They should check for advocaat and lemonade... perhaps with lime. After all, comets are generally described as dirty snowballs....

IGMC

newman1702 · Oct 27, 2015

I'm still on the lookout for a planet where such a comet crashed inside a mineral water geyser area. I shall call it planet Spritzer. It's why I explore.