The vacuum is only ≈3K, or -270.15° C, but a vacuum is not particularly receptive to heat dispersal.

This is true for all of the black parts of the sky.

It is not true for that big yellow ball that shines on the space station half of the time. That big yellow ball is as bright and hot as a hot desert day on the surface. Daylight can raise the vacuum temp up to +250 or +300 C. And it also means that the night time temps don't cool down all the way to 3K.

So the ISS is continuously exposed to these thermal cycles on the outside. As a heat load these should dwarf any marginal heat loads introduced by whatever recreational drugs. And the station has to have radiator capacity handle it all plus margin. Remember, too, that the ISS crew also has to do hard exercise 2 hours per day.

If it's like a once a year event, is it really that bad? It's what I do for summer solstice. I don't easily get drunk though. Maybe 15 beers an evening to get me drunk, so 30-40 for a weekend if I were to drink only beer and nothing stronger.

On NASA defence is not the first time that due problems with vehicles an astronaut have to stay up there for much much much longer than their planed stance.

At the end I think the astronaut said that 50 would be enough. So the NASA estimate wasn't really that far off. As it's totally normal for a woman to use half or double the tampons than other woman during period.

But it is a funny story indeed.

Yeah if you crack open the first cold one at noon when it gets hot while you're helping with some outdoors work and finish your last one at 3 AM talking shit with your friends, you probably never get drunk with those amounts. If you drink it all over 4 hours per evening, different story.

37! my girlfriend sucked 37 dicks!

In a row?!

A purist would know that it’s not Star Trek if Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are not present. We don’t need French men with English accents or William T. Ripoff!

20 beers

There's no volume stated here... is 1 beer a pint, 0.5 liters,, small bottle/can of .33 liters, 2 liter bottle.

If it's the the small bottle it's not that much

if he likes shit beer, get a 12 pack, good beer, 6 pack

"halt" might be difficult in orbit.

So what you're saying is the cooling system would in fact be OK with my 100 beer ration

Yeah I've spoken to enough young people who watched the prequels first that I no longer begrudge them their nostalgia.

I just don't share it, and that's ok. I'd rather define myself by what I enjoy than what I turn my nose up at.

Speaking of, have you heard the good word of Andor?? It's the best thing to happen to Star Wars since greebles!!!

you mean like they ignored the part of me asking what a "star trek purist" is? maybe you can shed some light on that.

lol i HAVE heard the Good News! XD

life is just a lot more fun when you enjoy stuff rather than hate stuff.

the OT, i love it, i grew up on it, it has some really naff bits in it. XD this just IS Star Wars. the cornball stuff was baked in from the beginning.

Critique of media is so fun! It's the clannish obsession with fighting over the objectively "true" instance of a piece of media that's so tiring.

Though I agree it's small potatoes, and usually just a proxy for generational or class fielty divisions.

Yeah at the slow paces outside you're more likely to get dehydrated than drunk.

Idk, 10 liters of beer a day is kinda hydro tho

You take this shit so seriously that I think you are having some issues.

My actual response to someone so cynical and unable to relax and banter about hobbies and fandoms is to block them. Bye.

I literally gave you the name for it, just put it on PubMed