Coffee in SPAaaaACE

[Heradel]

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/000746-2.html#coffee

For the record, Coffee through a straw is not an appetizing prospect. An IV drip on the other hand...

[Bdoomed]

that is too cool
i need to go to space sometime

[stePH]

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/000746-2.html#coffee

For the record, Coffee through a straw is not an appetizing prospect. An IV drip on the other hand...

How about a sippy-cup, like the ones for uncoordinated toddlers liable to spill their milk?

[Corydon]

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/000746-2.html#coffee

For the record, Coffee through a straw is not an appetizing prospect. An IV drip on the other hand...

How about a sippy-cup, like the ones for uncoordinated toddlers liable to spill their milk?

No good, alas; you need gravity for a sippy-cup to work.

[Russell Nash]

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/000746-2.html#coffee

For the record, Coffee through a straw is not an appetizing prospect. An IV drip on the other hand...

How about a sippy-cup, like the ones for uncoordinated toddlers liable to spill their milk?

No good, alas; you need gravity for a sippy-cup to work.

Not if the sippy cup has a liner like a lot of baby bottles do.

[Thaurismunths]

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/000746-2.html#coffee

For the record, Coffee through a straw is not an appetizing prospect. An IV drip on the other hand...

How about a sippy-cup, like the ones for uncoordinated toddlers liable to spill their milk?

No good, alas; you need gravity for a sippy-cup to work.

Not if the sippy cup has a liner like a lot of baby bottles do.

That pretty much brings us back to pouches with straws.

[MacArthurBug]

well free floating blobs of hot coffee is a unhappy idea- but though the caffine would be great through i.v. I actually like the taste of coffee.

[Zathras]

IV drips need gravity.

[Bdoomed]

are there any adverse effects on the circulatory system with an absence of gravity?  i would think the body would kinda need it...

[Russell Nash]

are there any adverse effects on the circulatory system with an absence of gravity?  i would think the body would kinda need it...

That's why NASA spends all that money on research.  So far it seems like the circulatory system kinds of likes low/zero g.  It's a total bitch on other things like bone and muscle density and mass.

[Corydon]

Hmm, I wonder about the possibilities offered by molecular gastronomy?  Coffee caviar is tasty and would be easy to eat in zero gravity, but it wouldn't do the trick for a real coffee enthusiast.  Maybe there's a way of creating coffee spheres with a liquid core?  NASA needs to get  Ferran Adria on the phone, stat!

[slic]

Wow that was nifty - thanks Heradel

Man, physics is cool!