It looks cold, dark and empty, but astronomers have revealed that interstellar space is permeated with a fine mist of grease-like molecules.
The study provides the most precise estimate yet of the amount of “space grease” in the Milky Way, by recreating the carbon-based compounds in the laboratory. The Australian-Turkish team discovered more than expected: 10 billion trillion trillion tonnes of gloop, or enough for 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter.
Prof Tim Schmidt, a chemist at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and co-author of the study, said that the windscreen of a future spaceship travelling through interstellar space might be expected to get a sticky coating.
“Amongst other stuff it’ll run into is interstellar dust, which is partly grease, partly soot and partly silicates like sand,” he said, adding that the grease is swept away within our own solar system by the solar wind.
Milliways, better known as the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, is a five star restaurant situated at the end of time and matter. It should have put a grease scrubber over their kitchen vent.
Space grease is an excellent lubricant, very slippery for any use where WD-40 might not be appropriate. Interstellar glitter, however, should be promptly recycled into the nearest Black Hole.
At what government office do I file my space extraction sector claim?
painedsmile over 6 years ago
It’s hard to recycle space grease when my interstellar glitter keeps falling into it. Who wants glittery space grease?
*Hot Rod* over 6 years ago
Always a job at hand if you can pass the quality control test.
*Hot Rod* over 6 years ago
Interstellar Space Glitter Grease…A little dab will do you…slather your body in it, and then you have the look…
Howard'sMyHero over 6 years ago
Feed them to the hogs ….
*Hot Rod* over 6 years ago
Perfect for the keyboard space bar, Frog Applause Bar and Grill.
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 6 years ago
From The Guardian:
It looks cold, dark and empty, but astronomers have revealed that interstellar space is permeated with a fine mist of grease-like molecules.
The study provides the most precise estimate yet of the amount of “space grease” in the Milky Way, by recreating the carbon-based compounds in the laboratory. The Australian-Turkish team discovered more than expected: 10 billion trillion trillion tonnes of gloop, or enough for 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter.
Prof Tim Schmidt, a chemist at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and co-author of the study, said that the windscreen of a future spaceship travelling through interstellar space might be expected to get a sticky coating.
“Amongst other stuff it’ll run into is interstellar dust, which is partly grease, partly soot and partly silicates like sand,” he said, adding that the grease is swept away within our own solar system by the solar wind.
Radish... over 6 years ago
Milliways, better known as the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, is a five star restaurant situated at the end of time and matter. It should have put a grease scrubber over their kitchen vent.
INGSOC over 6 years ago
Pairs together with greasy bright and shimmery space junk..
coltish1 over 6 years ago
String theory has had its day. All of the avant garde cosmologists are now exploring all features and implications of the Big Grease Smudge.
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 6 years ago
Okay. The stuff between my stove and counter is now officially Space Grease and Interstellar Glitter.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 6 years ago
I’ll go with X, into the unknown!
Howard'sMyHero over 6 years ago
Cue the Twilight Zone theme ….
Larry Miller Premium Member over 6 years ago
@Howard’sMyHero, Heck, cue the Bee Gees and the Grease theme.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 6 years ago
Space grease makes it easier to slide through worm holes.
*Hot Rod* over 6 years ago
Glitter with Grease on the eyes lids…
6turtle9 over 6 years ago
May the Farce be with you.
SumoSasquatch (aka a boy named Su) over 6 years ago
Is she/he planning to recycle his/her falling-out eyeballs?
Radish... over 6 years ago
Thomas Jones has put it, “space carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell.” Space, Jones elaborated, smells a little like gunpowder.
Sisyphos over 6 years ago
Waste not, want not, granny used to say.
Space grease is an excellent lubricant, very slippery for any use where WD-40 might not be appropriate. Interstellar glitter, however, should be promptly recycled into the nearest Black Hole.
At what government office do I file my space extraction sector claim?