On 2/25/07, Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you feel differently if the manned program was doing something > that was actually useful? > If the program had set up permanent zeroG manufacturing lines making > products that could only be made in space, would the bang for the buck > equations be more favorable to you?
One of the results from our space program that we have seen is that yeast in low-gravity conditions generates better, more alcoholic beer. We just need to convince Anheuser-Busch or Coors or Miller to spend the cash to build a giant beer manufacturing plant in Space. Who wouldn't buy space beers? It's makes a whole lot more sense than a lot of the flavored beers and "energy" beers the big guys keep putting onto shelves... I demand to see a race for the first beer brewed in space to reach store shelves. Perhaps we need a Beer X-Prize. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. --Samuel Butler _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
