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I was just at the grocery store, and by complete chance, I noticed when I went to go get a coke,

there was a coke that said on it, Coke, starlight, Coca-Cola starlight.

And then on the bottom, it said space flavored.

And I'm about to go record a science podcast.

I haven't heard about this.

Space science, it's going to be a spacey episode in general.

I have to get this space flavored Coca-Cola.

I tried to read the press release that Coca-Cola, of course, put out about this.

And they said nothing about why it was space flavored.

They were like, we worked very hard on this.

We gave so much freedom to our creative flavor teams.

They were able to work without constraints in a non-linear fashion to make whatever it was

that this is.

I don't, but at no point was it like, here's why it's space flavored?

Like, space has these compounds that are aromatic, and they smell like this.

And so maybe if it concentrated space, it would taste like this coke.

But I would like to know what you think this space coke is going to taste like.

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