Just love it ...
especially since it kinda suggests we need some sort of in depth analysis of beers at altitude ...
"Pics or it didn't happen" is a common cry down here at El Reg, so we're disappointed to report that last week's audacious mission to send a pint of London Pride to the upper atmosphere ended without airborne imagery. The BALYOLO - BAL (Balloon) YOLO (You Only Live Once) - flight launched last Saturday from the The White Swan …
American beer is like making love in a canoe.It's f*cking close to water.
Sure enough, bad beer comes from the USA. Except for the ones that are very good. Almost all of that worst beers list is American, but so is more than 80% of the top 50 list. It's the story of the USA right there.
Every country makes bad beer, but you can't say the same about good beer.
Based on my experience, the Americans also seem to be quite a bit better at making beer that survives the trip to Australia than the English.
"Almost all of that worst beers list is American, but so is more than 80% of the top 50 list. It's the story of the USA right there."
That's a US website, so what might pass as good in the colonies probably leaves a lot to be desired on most of the rest of the planet...
Based on my experience, the Americans also seem to be quite a bit better at making beer that survives the trip to Australia than the English.
My word, man! Are you perchance suggesting that in our times products purportedly originating from a certain region of the world are actually transported to another*, instead of being quietly manufactured locally under a license?!? I trust you're surely not!
(*) That does not apply to China. Everybody knows everything is actually manufactured there and hauled everywhere else, but no other exceptions.
There's a part of me who's now pondering the extent to which the reduced-atmospheric-pressure-induced 'boiling' would have selectively distilled-off the alcohol from the beer, and what effect the lower temperature would have had on the relative vapour-pressures of alcohol vs water.
Hmmmm.. I would suugest that your research-team seeks liquid sponsorship from breweries for a future re-run or twenty, if only to ensure that the experimental results are repeatable and statistically-significant.
My suggestion would be to send aloft some Fursty Ferret or maybe some Dog's Bollocks.
Pride is perfectly drinkable, but I must admit a preference for the delicious rocket fuel that is Riggwelter.
I could drink that stuff all night if it didn't make me fall over so quickly. For drinking all night, Brakspear BItter is ideal - tasty, but mild. You can do seven pints in three hours and still walk home on it.
Ah, ale, how I love thee.
*necks old speckled hen from the can*
Steven R
I just firkin love the idea of a bunch of people firstly coming up with the idea - probably as a result of imbibing said ale - then - when sober - actually following through.
If ever there was a 'Turing Test' for humanity surely it would be based on something as improbable as this.
More please.
/Mines the Dark Star, (the Pride's off at the moment...)
I'm not sure this will ever catch on the way that sending one's Madeira around the cape once did.
And though I applaud the mix of beer and boffinry, it seems to me that the best way to send beer up to 28 thousand meters is in a suitably pressurized craft where the travelers may drink it. Yes, I know that it would be vastly more expensive...
I have had the same rollercoaster with the GoPro3.
Corrupt files and folders lost me hours of images and vids from my hexacopter.
My solution was to do ALL of the following:
Update the Firmware to the newest revision:
Fully Format the card in the device each use and never delete files on the card from another system.
Use a known brand Micro SD card and make sure its not a rebranded knockoff.
I'm my case I use a Kingston 16Gb MicroSD HC C10.
Talking of beer, its pub time :)
The beer outside the payload bay simultaneously boiled and froze
Never occurred to me that beer would have a triple point, determining that could be of some interest, I wonder if I could get sponsorship to find the triple points of a number of ethanol based beverages - There must be a good reason to do this apart from the necessarily comprehensive before and after taste tests.