# Final barrier to colonization of space conquered!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 2, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-barrier-to-colonization-of-space-conquered/60495 "2001-04-02T15:25:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-barrier-to-colonization-of-space-conquered/60495/1 "2001-04-02T15:25:07Z")

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From this week’s News of the Weird, exerped from _New Scientist_:

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> A team of researchers from the Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology announced in December that after nearly four years of research, it had solved the perplexing problem of how to store and pour draft beer on zero-gravity space stations. The team injects carbon dioxide against a flexible membrane inside the keg, which forces the beer out without commingling the liquid and the gas (as is done in the conventional keg) and provides the additional benefit of ejecting the beer in liquid chunks the size of table tennis balls.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Book me on a flight to Mars, baby!

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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-barrier-to-colonization-of-space-conquered/60495/2 "2001-04-02T15:36:43Z")

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That’s too cool! I SO want to get drunk in zero g now!

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-barrier-to-colonization-of-space-conquered/60495/3 "2001-04-02T15:53:07Z")

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I, for one, am terribly proud of those Dutch people. I mean, they’ve done SO MUCH for modern western civilisation already, and now THIS!

Take off your hats, hand on heart, and sing the _Wilhelmus_, dammit.

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**Author:** ![JohnBarleycorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@JohnBarleycorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBarleycorn)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-barrier-to-colonization-of-space-conquered/60495/4 "2001-04-02T16:05:25Z")

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That tears it, I’m immigrating there. Now this is a country that has it’s priorities straight.

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**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-barrier-to-colonization-of-space-conquered/60495/5 "2001-04-02T16:25:47Z")

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Three questions:

1. Do we call it a “Cosmo Keg”?

2. What happens when ya drink so much that ya yak? How’s _ **that** _ getting cleaned up?

3. And what about them pesky zero-G hangovers?

Tripler  
Always thinking ahead. . .