This evening, I had the opportunity to enjoy an installment of one of my favorite television series,
The Universe. The title of tonight's episode was
Strangest Things... appropriately enough, it showcased some of the more unusual items in our crazy cosmos, one such entity being interstellar clouds of ethyl alcohol, some as large as 1,000 times the size of our solar system. Yes, ethyl alcohol... the very same substance that gives our adult beverages their oh-so-enchanting intoxicating effect. Apparently, amongst the wonders that populate creation are big-ass clouds of booze! How cool is that?!?!? Alas, also present are no-fun substances such as carbon monoxide, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, formic acid,
aldehydes and
cyanides. I suppose the concept of great, galactic kegs, floating out in the void
was too good to be true.
One last thing as long as I'm on the subject of
The Universe... one of the regular contributors to the program is
Amy Mainzer of
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory... and she's quite the
hottie...
She has NASA JPL and Cosmic Diary blogs.
Ah, beauty with brains and colossal cocktail clouds... the universe is a pretty f'ing cool place!
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