Originally published at: For sale: bottle of wine aged on the International Space Station | Boing Boing
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I will wait for the Picard vineyards offerings.
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No need to wait…
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Eh.
Earth’s flying through space just as much as the ISS is.
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Apparently Dom Pérignon is still the wine of choice for christening starships in the 23rd Century.
Hope nobody tried that stunt with the ISS.
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Well, not quite 14 months. Caveat emptor!
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Awesome! They created something too valuable to be functional. It will never be drunk. It will just sit in some Techboi’s condo so he can try to impress his sexworkers with it.
Such a terrific encapsulation of the work of the thousands of engineers that built, tested and flew the spacecraft.
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Boing Boing Shop’s getting a little pricey, eh?
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Wait, so was it less because of the ISS’s speed, or more because it was higher up the gravity well?
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It is quite a markup! Two bottles of 2000 Pétrus would ordinarily only set you back about £10,000. Much more reasonable!
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/petrus+pomerol+bordeaux+france/2000/uk
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Conversely, this seems like a very effective way to fund a space program while removing money from people who aren’t going to do anything useful with it.
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