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Seriously. The fuck is wrong with you? (startrek.website)
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[-] athos77@kbin.social 98 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hunh. The Sagittarius B2 interstellar cloud:

is composed of various kinds of complex molecules, of particular interest: alcohol. The cloud contains ethanol, vinyl alcohol, and methanol. [...] An ester, ethyl formate, [...] is also responsible for the flavour of raspberries, leading some articles on Sagittarius B2 to postulate the cloud as smelling of ‘raspberry rum’. Large quantities of butyronitrile (propyl cyanide) and other alkyl cyanides have also been detected as being present in the cloud.

Cool stuff.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 73 points 8 months ago

I don't know about "drinkable" though. It'll turn you blind at best.

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago

Biologist here! From this list of substances, you'd absolutely die from a shot of this cloud.

I'd try it anyway lol

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Death by Raspberry Cloud. Got a nice ring to it.

[-] ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Death by INTERSTELLAR Raspberry Cloud has an even better ring to it.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Pangalactic gargle blaster levels of rings if you catch my toiletteries

[-] 7of9@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

Only one man would give me the raspberry!

[-] Feidry@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Sounds like a new wave rock album title.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a new energy drink. I bet it would sell well

[-] UtMan1988@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I'm sold. T-Minus 10... 9...

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 38 points 8 months ago

Everything is drinkable once, with a strong enough blender.

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Don't breathe this!

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

I'm sure there's a way to extract the ethanol. That's drinkable at least.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

But then you'd lose all the raspberry goodness!

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

True, but you'd have something more potent than both Everclear or the most potent Sakes and Vodkas. As long as you make a proper fruity drink with that stuff, (1 oz of pure ethanol would be equivalent to almost 3×1 oz shots of a standard vodka) and you'd have a banging Sex on the Beach, Long Island Iced Tea, Kamikaze, Vulcan Mind Probe, or many other mixed drinks.

[-] nero@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

It’s drinkable, probably not very enjoyable though

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 49 points 8 months ago

I want to be excited, but techbro futurists like musk have ruined it for me. Once we fix the shit we've got going on down here then maybe there will be more to look forward to out there.

[-] TIN@feddit.uk 22 points 8 months ago

I always say in response to this point that we can probably do 2 things at once, there are 8 billion of us. We could probably stretch to fixing 8 things simultaneously if we really wanted to.

[-] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Idk man, recent events have led me to think that only a small percentage of us actually has the power to do anything significant. Sure, ideally we can all band together and reach for the stars ™️ but that's not gonna happen if most of us are struggling to even survive

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago

It always baffles me when people say that we gotta fix everything on Earth before we go to space when countless inventions and innovations that make our modern lives even remotely possible are a direct result of space travel. Just to name a few; disease and medical research, better understanding of physics, advances in computing, GPS, weather prediction and tracking, solar panels, and the Internet. You don't have to get excited, but to say we shouldn't go to space is a very short sighted argument.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

We have no way of testing to see where our world would be if we'd made different decisions.

That said, I'd leave all you fucks in an instant to be put into stasis on a ship.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

I don't even need the ship, just put me in stasis for a couple thousand years. Maybe then I'll finally wake up rested

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

The goal would be to wake up in the future. It'd better be some scifi Utopia, too.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Wait, you guys wake up?

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I only want to wake up if we have badass space drugs.

[-] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago

I mean I don’t like that Haber made chlorine gas, but I like fertilizer. I’m happy that I have fertilizer, but Haber can go fuck himself for his role in chemical warfare.

I’m pretty hyped about having food.

I’m pretty hyped about Starship too.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Imagine having beef with an exothermic reaction

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

Gotta do both at once. Fix the problems and get all the eggs out of a single basket.

[-] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 8 months ago

I don't give a shit about raspberry nebulae unless there's someone out there to eat it. Find them aliens! I'll settle for a bacterium, even a fossilized one.

[-] Neato@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

Is the raining glass real? Thought that was a Lower Decks episode.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

Glass is mostly quartz, which is made of silicon and oxygen, which are pretty common elements in planets' makeup. It's all about the temperature, pressure and atmosphere at this point

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

It rains diamonds on some planets

[-] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

That nice and all, but some people are more interested in tangible things. Not something we'll never see or experience.

[-] Stamets@startrek.website 15 points 8 months ago

And without space exploration and the quest for it, you wouldn't have a lot of those tangible things.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 13 points 8 months ago

Emergency blankets, grooved pavement, cell phone cameras, cordless vacuums, scratch proof glass, insoles, ear thermometers, GPS, invisible braces, memory foam, tap water filters, smoke detectors... List goes on.

[-] Wodge@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Velcro!

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Stuff out there impacts life here - sometimes literally - all the time. It's "cool" that you'd rather ignore it, but you're very wrong that we'll never see or have to deal with it in some fashion. Not to mention the scientific advances from observing the behaviour of something we previously thought couldn't exist.

[-] Sakychu@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

That might be true, but that doesn't mean I have to get excited by that.

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

It is true. Nobody said you have to get excited about it, but now I'm confused as to why you bothered replying, or even commenting in the first place.

[-] EmiliaTheHero@possumpat.io 6 points 8 months ago

Nobody said you have to get excited about it

The title of the post is "Seriously. The fuck is wrong with you [for not caring about space]?"

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, it is! So then this person who is only interested in tangible things felt compelled to discuss this uh... intangible thing? Sounds like a troll.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

So what's wrong with you then

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago

Man, I'm just trying to hustle enough to pay my rent...

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The subtext to that is if you don't find space fascinating, you probably don't have a very good imagination, or much going on between your ears.

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