{"id":23483,"date":"2011-05-18T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23483"},"modified":"2011-05-18T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:27:59","slug":"one-small-step-for-man-one-giant-leap-for-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23483","title":{"rendered":"One Small Step for Man &#8211; One Giant Leap for BEER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m ready to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1388228\/Australian-brewers-aim-tackle-final-frontier-space-age-beer-Vostok-4-Pines-Stout.html\" target=\"_blank\">participate in the testing<\/a>; where do I sign up?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Wherever man has ventured, beer has  followed. Now, two Australian entrepreneurs hope that will include  space. The pair have developed a full-bodied brew they believe can stand  up to the trials of being drunk in zero gravity.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Problems  faced by astronauts include swelling of the tongue with a loss of taste  sensation, but it is hoped that space engineers have developed the  perfect beer to counter this.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>What could go wrong? Passengers drink on airplanes.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Once the prototype was developed it  was tested on a zero gravity flight over Florida by a microgravity  expert from the non-profit organisation Astronauts4Hire as a test  subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Throughout the  test flight the expert drank almost a litre of the beer despite the  challenges of keeping the bottle to his mouth and getting the beer to  pour out.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>And they do have toilets in space&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you were wondering about The Beer Belch in microgravity fear not:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>There is also the problem of carbonation  and burping. On Earth, due to gravity acting on the stomach, the gas  and liquid in the beer separate. However, in space, they come up  together in what is called a wet burp. That, explained Mr Held, can be  very uncomfortable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t science wonderful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m ready to participate in the testing; where do I sign up? Wherever man has ventured, &hellip; <a title=\"One Small Step for Man &#8211; One Giant Leap for BEER!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23483\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Small Step for Man &#8211; One Giant Leap for BEER!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}