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EARTHDATE: November 9, 2014

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REAL LIFE NEWS: WHISKY… IN… SPAAAAACE…

by Hazed

After spending three years whirling around in space, a batch of whisky from a Scottish distillery has now returned to Earth.

The Islay-based Ardbeg distillery sent several vats of the stuff to the ISS as part of an experiment to test how the maturation process is affected by zero gravity. Control vials of the whisky were kept back at the distillery’s HQ, and the space travelling booze will be compared to the ground-bound alcohol to see what differences there are.

I do hope when they come to check it out they won’t discover that the vats of whiskey have been substantially watered down after sneaky astronauts helped themselves, then topped the casks up to hide their crime!

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/28/jim_beam_me_up_scotty_whisky_returns_from_space/

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