"AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed) 12/04/2016 at 01:29 • Filed to: None

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RallyWrench > AntiSpeed 12/04/2016 at 01:42

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Normal brain: neat!

Sciency brain: that’s not how any of this works.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > RallyWrench 12/04/2016 at 12:49

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I wonder how long it would take the beer to evaporate in a vacuum. Or would it all spray out as you opened the bottle? Would the sticky residue get left or would that evaporate/sublimate too? So many questions.

Audistein > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 12/04/2016 at 21:11

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The CO2 dissolved in the beer would outgas so quickly that it would be almost explosive. Like opening a champagne bottle after shaking but way, way, way, way stronger. In addition, the water and alcohol would boil almost instantly. Basically the entire contents of the bottle would become a gas almost instantly and with a lot of energy.

The astronauts’ suits’ surface is actually quite hot due to the direct light from the sun (no atmosphere for protection) so the liquid would at least not freeze to it. For the suit to become sticky then maybe if the beer was pointed at and very close to someone when opened then it’s possible that some droplets could reach the suit while still liquid and then boil from the vacuum after contacting the suit, leaving dissolved sugars and other solutes behind, giving the astronaut a sticky suit. It would probably feel like getting a decent hit though to be at the end of that.