6. There's A Gas Cloud In The Constellation Of Aquila That Contains Enough Alcohol To Make 400 Trillion Trillion Pints Of Beer

There ain't no party like an Aquila party, so they say in space - or at least, they may do when we finally develop the technology to go and look at this cloud in more detail. That might take a while; the alcohol-soaked gas cloud G34.3 is 10,000 light years away.

The Cloud is enormous - 1,000 times larger than our entire Solar System - and as with all interstellar gas clouds, contains ethyl alcohol in grains of dust. As these grains passed close to the star at the Cloud's center, the dust evaporates into gas. If we were able to reach it, and condense this gas back into liquid, it would provide 300,000 pints of alcohol per day to every human being on Earth for the next billion years. Imagine the hangover you'd have in a billion years and one day...

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