Oh. My. Gosh. They don't realize the liquid will just float around in zero gravity and they have no control over the teh tarik??? From: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/art...18962_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-MALAYSIA-SPACE-DC.XML
Haha, reminds me of the American vs russian astronaut jokes.. on how the NASA put in so much money to create a pen that will work in zero gravity and not have the ink float around inside the pen... the russians used a pencil. But still.. of all the research the malaysian astronauts can do, they decided to just attempt to make teh tarik.
It just shows how hard local astronauts try to make their mark in space. I agree with Jinny that Malaysian astronauts should do something bigger than just making teh tarik. What would other people think? "They went up there just to make tea? Oh it's their local tea. LOOK IT'S FLOATING AROUND. AHA THE TEA GOT HIS SUIT, THAT'S GONNA STAIN! ROTFLMAO!" Damn it. We will look so pariah. Why don't they make nasi lemak as well? Symbol of Malaysia my foot. I'll rather have M'sianauts stick our flag on Jupiter than spilling tea in outer space. Maybe aliens can get a feel of our local specialty? Could get some unexpected visits too. Cool.
Ahh, maybe they should try tossing roti canai too And whille they're at that, since Egypt refused to grant Malaysia permission to drape the Malaysia flag over the pyramids, so we'll drape it over Olympus Mons in the moon instead Oh, and all these will go into the Malaysia Book of Records. Sad.
Malaysia Book of Records. Gah. Yes it's sad. It's like Malaysians want to get into the Book of World Records so much but they can't. So they made their own Book. Gah. Longest teh tarik. Who the fruit wants to know?!
Actually, I meant that the stuff I mentioned above, like making roti canai or draping the flag over olympus mons, will go into the malaysia book of records as a joke, not that the teh tarik in space will go into the M'sia book of records. Though I have a feeling if they really do it, it would go in.
haha remided me of a scene in Armageddon, the machine went wrong, and when the americans tried to repair, only found out tht, its all wat china made n russian made!
ROTFL!! I really don't know what to say.... Although I'm not sure of Haniff Omar's qualifications, I'm going to assume he at least has some kind of degree in something. Evidently, neither Haniff nor the doctor Sheikh Shukor or dentist Faiz Khaleed, remembered their physics lessons. To send someone all the way into space just to test something that EVERYONE already knows??? IMHO, if the Russians aren't already laughing their pants off at these idiots, the rest of the world are. Sigh... A lost opportunity IMHO. Instead of attempting to perform tests for science research, our astronaut is going to do something stupid like pouring boiling hot, sweet, sticky tea in space. Utterly brainless.... IMHO, they would be better off researching the different positions possible if astronauts try to have sex in space. At least that would be useful for human Mars missions or something.
Eh seriously.. send me up la... At the very least I can do more useful tasks, like answering the question "How many Malaysians does it take to replace a light bulb in space?" Even Dashken would be better. He can test the ability of astronauts to download porn in space. Will it be faster than on Earth?
