He has lots of credits now. What's holding him from getting REAL meat and vegetables, and making FACTORY of those bubbly, carbonated drinks?
Oh I know. Plot.
Exactly what I did to Tri-Tachyon the other day. Punching their space stations with a Paragon (design of which I stole from them before building it myself) is so satisfrying. Actually I pretty much prefer punching starbases with an Onslaught, but I'm still commissioned by the Hegemony.
I never thought about how there would probably be no carbonated drinks on a space station. Unless the space station makes their own fizzy drinks because otherwise your just importing CO2 that you will have to remove later.
Surprisingly good. It's the little things that count sometimes, and the whole bit about soda was hilarious. (Although, since they seem to have artificial gravity, it shouldn't be a problem to have carbonated drinks in space anyway.)
@Halfshadows
You have to manage CO2 emissions anyway, when humans breathe. So that's not really an issue... After a quick search, I found that:
"The bubbles of carbon dioxide in carbonated beverages aren't buoyant in a weightless environment, so they remain randomly distributed throughout the fluid, even after swallowing. This means that carbonated beverages including soft drinks and beer may become a foamy mess during space travel."
Emphasis on weightless-environment. Which isn't relevant where they reside, which seems to have artificial gravity, but may be relevant if you're space-faring.
Either way, nice going on the author for doing the research, but overall, fizzy drinks in their spacestation has very few reasons to not exist.
@Solipsist Well if we assume the author knows his shit about space and keeps things accurate,
the ring the colony is build inside of is spinning, which creates the gravitational effect.
Dont really know if youd call that artifical gravity or not.
@Argolok
That's centrifugal force. Some people call it centripetal force, whatever. Point is, it's not actual gravity. It simulates gravity only to things that touch the thing that spins. If you stand on the surface of the spinning rings, you will feel as if you are standing on actual ground. But if you're holding a can of soda, then you let the can go, the can will stay suspended in the air.
In short, whatever is true in a weightless environment, remains true under centrifugal force. Well, most of it anyway.