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Dying to test out that your new space gizmo?

Josh
Monday
9:04 pm

…well, you can’t. Unless you’re Lance Bass.

But a new company in Colorado is providing a way for you to test your crazy ideas and see how they’ll perform in the rigors of space.

Just like regular butter. But in space. Space Butter.

Just like regular butter. But in space. Space Butter.

eSpace, a company voted “Most Likely To Have Missed The Dot Com Naming Convention Bubble,” has created a cavernous testing facility that recreates the violent turbulence of liftoff, zero gravity, bitter cold and inevitable disappointment of going into space. 

The company started out making pieces for hot water heaters, but quickly changed to space widgets when they realized the enormous government dole at stake. The goal of the company is to help make sure that new potential space wizards don’t make the same mistakes as eSpace.

So, would-be inventors, if you ever wanted to know if your Flouroscope, Disposable Sink or Dear-God-What-The-Hell-Is-That would stand up to a week on the space station, you have your chance.

Reader Comments

As you well know of my fondness for butter, I’ll interpret this post as a blatant attempt to keep me visiting this site. And I’ve only been exposed to Earth butter. I can’t imagine how good space butter must be.

#1 
Written By bill on February 24th, 2009 @ 10:19 am

Um…. A butter stick? I’m actually speechless. That’s almost more disturbing than this: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/post/74878860/baconnaise-via-saramcpherson

#2 
Written By Amber on February 24th, 2009 @ 11:40 am

Space butter is quite similar, but for the spleens…

#3 
Written By Nick Burns on February 24th, 2009 @ 1:45 pm

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