# Donuts -- in -- space!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439 "2015-04-24T14:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/1 "2015-04-24T14:18:58Z")
> **[Goodbye, cruller world: the first doughnut in space is surprisingly tragic](https://www.vox.com/2015/4/23/8485227/space-donut)** > > Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology,... > [@](#): > > On April 9, 2015, a couple of Swedes made history by sending a doughnut into space. > > The video shows how they attached both a camera and a doughnut to a weather balloon, and then sent the balloon 20 miles up (32 kilometers). That took the doughnut beyond the stratosphere — though, technically, this isn’t considered outer space, which starts 62 miles (100 km) above Earth. The balloon later landed in the water, where the pastry was recovered by the Swedish Sea Rescue Society and returned it to the group. > > The beautiful journey shows the blue magnificence of Earth’s oceans, the haze of light playing upon the atmosphere’s edge, and the incredible endurance of the doughnut’s colorful sprinkles. Yet somehow, it’s bittersweet. Though the video shows the beauty of both the doughnut and this blue marble we call home, it also serves as a poignant farewell from pastry to planet. > > But then it fell back to Earth, so the Swedes ate it ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/2 "2015-04-24T14:58:04Z")
mmm donuts. is there anything they can’t do? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/3 "2015-04-24T17:00:17Z")
In honour of this great achievement, I am off to Tim’s for a doughnut and coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/4 "2015-04-24T18:28:52Z")
There seems to be a hole in the process… ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/5 "2015-04-24T19:24:04Z")
That’s a hole new way of looking at the sprinkled landscape of the world. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/6 "2015-04-24T20:22:03Z")
pssshaw! Pikers! Here’s a real [achievement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTGDpUg3CHY) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/7 "2015-04-24T20:32:00Z")
“Well, a doughnut like that, you don’t eat all at once.” ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/8 "2015-04-24T20:48:06Z")
So someone put Homer Simpson in charge of the space program now? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/9 "2015-04-24T21:23:18Z")
Very cool. But unsecured gas cylinders make me twitchy. I felt bad for donut when it fell. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/10 "2015-04-24T23:17:43Z")
That the Swedish Sea Rescue Society said: “Oh yeah, we’ll totally help rescue your donut.” makes me proud to have some Swedish lineage. (Is that the equivalent of the Coast Guard?) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/11 "2015-04-25T00:40:25Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > So someone put Homer Simpson in charge of the space program now? If Homer Simpson was involved, the donut would have been eaten rather than being wasted in a stunt. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/12 "2015-04-25T00:47:25Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > That the Swedish Sea Rescue Society said: “Oh yeah, we’ll totally help rescue your donut.” makes me proud to have some Swedish lineage. (Is that the equivalent of the Coast Guard?) Well, it was the Sea Rescue Station in Åmål. [It’s not like anything ever f\*\*\*ing happens there anyway.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85m%C3%A5l#Show_Me_Love_.28Fucking_.C3.85m.C3.A5l.29) > [@](#): > > The 1998 film Fucking Åmål (known in the English-speaking world as _Show Me Love_), directed by Lukas Moodysson, is set in Åmål. The movie depicts the town as extremely boring and eventless. So I imagine that they jumped at the chance for some space donut action. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/13 "2015-04-25T01:10:48Z")
[Careful! They’re ruffled](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnPGDWD_oLE) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/14 "2015-04-25T04:27:07Z")
That’s one small step for a doughnut, one giant leap for pastrykind. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/15 "2015-04-25T05:48:34Z")
They ate the donut because [donuts don’t have sleeves](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/20/151044647/the-pineapple-and-the-hare-can-you-answer-two-bizarre-state-exam-questions)? ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/16 "2015-04-27T01:54:48Z")
Truly an achievement the likes of which one does not see every day. So pretty! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/17 "2015-04-27T04:32:11Z")
Cool! I like the part where it falls past the contrail and you see the contrail beside the camera and its shadow below… Which brings me to a question: do they have to get any sort of clearance from air traffic control before doing this? ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donuts-in-space/718439/18 "2015-04-27T04:53:51Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Cool! I like the part where it falls past the contrail and you see the contrail beside the camera and its shadow below… > > Which brings me to a question: do they have to get any sort of clearance from air traffic control before doing this? The answer is YES. All current/modern Air Traffic Control systems have been on High Alert for donuts falling from the sky for a least 5 years now. The main threat is from pilots (both commercial and private) is from diverting their plane to chase these down in order to see if they were chocolate or vanilla-filled.