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Okay, but now I am imagining an inverse package labelling for ISS foodstuffs. [[Special:Contributions/209.52.88.130|209.52.88.130]] 01:17, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
 
Okay, but now I am imagining an inverse package labelling for ISS foodstuffs. [[Special:Contributions/209.52.88.130|209.52.88.130]] 01:17, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
    I think ISS qualifies as "sea level": the key is the atmospheric pressure, height per se does nothing to food [[Special:Contributions/185.36.194.156|185.36.194.156]] 01:44, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
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:I think ISS qualifies as "sea level": the key is the atmospheric pressure, height per se does nothing to food [[Special:Contributions/185.36.194.156|185.36.194.156]] 01:44, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
 
::The ISS maintains pretty much sea level atmosphere, and seems to also maintain similar composition, but there's definitely going to be complications with microgravity. Now I want to see what boiling water and steam look like in a zero g atmosphere [[User:R128|R128]] ([[User talk:R128|talk]]) 08:48, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
 
::The ISS maintains pretty much sea level atmosphere, and seems to also maintain similar composition, but there's definitely going to be complications with microgravity. Now I want to see what boiling water and steam look like in a zero g atmosphere [[User:R128|R128]] ([[User talk:R128|talk]]) 08:48, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
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:::"...throughout the duration of cooking, hold cooker at arm's length and spin at roughly 30rpm, or as low as 5rpm if free-floating..."<!-- i.e. ~1m of radius, emulating ~1g (overkill?) within the cooking apparatus, but with the shift of the holder/cooker barycentre if not anchoring your spin against hand hull hand/foot straps, assuming still arm-length (for 'safety') but now rotating around a vague midpoint near the elbow... just additional bonus info for those who wonder where I plucked my figures from, or want to show me exactly how I'm just as humorously wrong... ;) --> [[Special:Contributions/82.132.244.242|82.132.244.242]] 13:13, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
  
 
You try cooking on the ISS the way you cook at sea level, you're gonna have several cups of boiling water in microgravity. [[Special:Contributions/207.195.86.104|207.195.86.104]] 04:55, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
 
You try cooking on the ISS the way you cook at sea level, you're gonna have several cups of boiling water in microgravity. [[Special:Contributions/207.195.86.104|207.195.86.104]] 04:55, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
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[[User:物灵|物灵]] ([[User talk:物灵|talk]]) 09:01, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
 
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:It may be a box of pasta or similar, which can be shaped pretty thin - I have spaghetti boxes which are maybe an inch thick and quite large. The nutritional information, etc could be higher up on the board/box shown in the comic [[User:R128|R128]] ([[User talk:R128|talk]]) 09:53, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
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:::I think it may say from heat, but I also think that is just good guessing. And it seems there is more further on. Could be something else like remove from what ever. I have removed it from the transcript after fro, as it is not clear on the drawing. Anything that needs an explanation do not belong in the transcript. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:46, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
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I don't think Randall did it deliberately, but from a mere ''five km'' below his tidily rounded-by-feet "ask in the ISS" range (30km allocated, within which the ISS normally only uses 9 km, apogee to perigee) you'd find the Chinese space station (never more than 10 km below 1.3 Mft, and at least 21 km above the 1.2 Mft level, if you'll excuse my unusual mixing of units!). And they quite recently showcased the cooking skills with their new air-fryer, as many space-obsessives (like I might be) might recall... Perhaps that was at the back of his mind, but I can't actually imagine that he took conscious inspiration from that and then 'refused' to in any way acknowledge it (even in parody). At most, a totally forgotten bit of info that trickled into the spark for this. The core fact, of which, I've just made a note of in the explanation. But this is by way of an expanded note of how near he was to either having to acknowledge Tiangong or else have many pedants pointedly pointing out a potential inaccuracy/omission... ;) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.244.242|82.132.244.242]] 18:08, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

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Okay, but now I am imagining an inverse package labelling for ISS foodstuffs. 209.52.88.130 01:17, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

I think ISS qualifies as "sea level": the key is the atmospheric pressure, height per se does nothing to food 185.36.194.156 01:44, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
The ISS maintains pretty much sea level atmosphere, and seems to also maintain similar composition, but there's definitely going to be complications with microgravity. Now I want to see what boiling water and steam look like in a zero g atmosphere R128 (talk) 08:48, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
"...throughout the duration of cooking, hold cooker at arm's length and spin at roughly 30rpm, or as low as 5rpm if free-floating..." 82.132.244.242 13:13, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

You try cooking on the ISS the way you cook at sea level, you're gonna have several cups of boiling water in microgravity. 207.195.86.104 04:55, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

I am editing the transcription and confused where the notes are attached. Now that the higher note reads ‘remove from heat [...] for 3 minutes before serving’, it may be food packaging, but the paint is too thin for it to be used for that purpose. And the space is seemingly inadequate for typical food labels (nutrition, ingredients, manufacturer, etc). 物灵 (talk) 05:10, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

The higher note might just be the ‘sea level cooking instructions’, reading:
Sea level cooking instructions
[... ... ... ...]
remove from heat [...]
for 3 minutes before serving.

物灵 (talk) 09:01, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

It may be a box of pasta or similar, which can be shaped pretty thin - I have spaghetti boxes which are maybe an inch thick and quite large. The nutritional information, etc could be higher up on the board/box shown in the comic R128 (talk) 09:53, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
I think it may say from heat, but I also think that is just good guessing. And it seems there is more further on. Could be something else like remove from what ever. I have removed it from the transcript after fro, as it is not clear on the drawing. Anything that needs an explanation do not belong in the transcript. --Kynde (talk) 13:46, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

I don't think Randall did it deliberately, but from a mere five km below his tidily rounded-by-feet "ask in the ISS" range (30km allocated, within which the ISS normally only uses 9 km, apogee to perigee) you'd find the Chinese space station (never more than 10 km below 1.3 Mft, and at least 21 km above the 1.2 Mft level, if you'll excuse my unusual mixing of units!). And they quite recently showcased the cooking skills with their new air-fryer, as many space-obsessives (like I might be) might recall... Perhaps that was at the back of his mind, but I can't actually imagine that he took conscious inspiration from that and then 'refused' to in any way acknowledge it (even in parody). At most, a totally forgotten bit of info that trickled into the spark for this. The core fact, of which, I've just made a note of in the explanation. But this is by way of an expanded note of how near he was to either having to acknowledge Tiangong or else have many pedants pointedly pointing out a potential inaccuracy/omission... ;) 82.132.244.242 18:08, 30 December 2025 (UTC)