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JP Aerospace: sending stuff into space because…well… just because!
Some blogs bring you the latest interesting trends, useful advice and cutting edge news based on solid research, personal experience and hours of scouring the web for the best links.
This is not one of those blogs.
Instead I’m going to tell you about Space Coffee and I’m going to tell you about this because one John Powel, founder of JP Aerospace (tagline: “America’s OTHER Space Program”) sent me an email out of the blue because, apparently, he thought this blog was a good medium for reaching people who might be interested in Space Coffee.
Truth is, this blog is really a pretty lousy medium for just about anything. I mean, I just wrote an entry about How To Lose Weight that featured a poorly Photoshopped upside-down woman with one leg drinking beer drinking beer and holding a stapler. Perhaps JP Aerospace needs to re-think its marketing strategy.
Then again, maybe not.
Because I’m now going to do exactly what John Powell wanted me to do (curse your magic reverse psychology!) and tell you about Space Coffee.
Really.
Right now.
Space Coffee.
Here we go.
Space Coffee.
Actually, I’m not entirely sure what is going on. Apparently JP Aerospace is a small organization of nerds space enthusiasts who enjoy sending up all sorts of things into space in an effort to… well… umm.. Okay, I’m not entirely sure why they do it, either.
Science!
They have a balloon that goes up towards the end of space and they have a rocket that does something, but mostly they seem to be sending things up like decorated ping-pong balls, Star Wars figures and cameras to take pictures of them sending up decorated ping pong balls and Star Wars figures in space.
These experiments help school children around the world learn important scientific skills such as how to decorate ping pong balls and how you can apparently raise money with just about any wacky idea as long as you believe in it with all your heart and somehow involve school children.
Space Coffee!
Because JP Aerospace doesn’t exactly have a whopping budget, they have to raise money in a lot of creative ways. On June 2, 2007 they are going to mount/tie/tape a quarter-pound of coffee beans onto a high-altitude balloon, send the balloon up to the edge of space, exposing the beans to “extremes of cold, vacuum, and cosmic rays” as explained in the press release. Then those specials beans will come back down and be ingested, giving everyone who drinks this potent brew amazing superpowers just like the Fantastic Four. Ha! That’s a little cosmic ray humor for you space nuts.
Actually, the beans will come back down and be sold on eBay.
Really.
Apparently the budget at JP Aerospace is pretty tight because the press release email makes a special note to mention that JP Aerspace is “on the lookout for coffee companies that have a special blend they want carried aloft” which means they hope someone is willing to donate the beans in return for a little publicity.
All kidding aside, these guys and gals really do seem like a pretty dedicated and intelligent bunch of people who are really doing some neat things with very little real resources. It’s independent scientists and free spirits like these people who often push technology and mankind’s knowledge to its limits. I applaud their efforts and wish them the best of luck.
I’d also love to know when the eBay auction is going to take place because I might be interested in bidding on those beans.
Flame on!
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3 Responses to “Space Coffee”
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John Powell says:
You have fallen into our diabolical plan…..
JP
May 14th, 2007 at 3:40 pm -
CaffiNation says:
Glad your back Tom, or should we say Overlord Tom now? How long before the Lightsaber turns red?
Need to find out how to use one?
Anyway to the topic at hand. Crazy stuff, space coffee. Perhaps they are just the remnant of James Doohan, They never did find Scotties Ashes.
Things are more expensive when you ad the word cosmic to it, it takes more ink to print it afterwards. Anyway enjoying the new content keep up the good work!
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Space Coffee For Sale on Ebay - Get Your Superpowers Now! - Spilling Coffee with Humorist Tom Coffee says:
[…] Today’s world is filled with a lot of bad things like wars, famine, pestilence, Paris Hilton and Silver Surfers. That’s why I’m especially shocked that more people are not mobbing ebay for a chance to bid on the only bag of coffee that has been fired into space, exposed to cosmic rays, and then brought back down to earth in a marketing move meant to raise money for the JP Aerospace organization. I’ve written about this Space Coffee before and I told you about how JP Aerospace is poised to become bigger than NASA just as soon as NASA loses all the money, people, technology and bloated budget. […]