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Over the weekend, John Carmack, co-founder of Doom developer Id Software, researcher of the kind of AI nobody is sure how to achieve, questionable convention attender, and ex-rocket ship entrepreneur, had a thought.Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€œConsidering that muffin tops are the best part,ā€ Carmack wrote on Twitter, ā€œit occurs to me that in zero gravity on the [International Space Station], you could bake spherical muffins that are ā€˜all top’ by just floating a ball of dough in the oven with no pan.ā€

According to NASA, astronauts have experimented with baking, but they’ve only gotten as far as cookies, rather than the pie-in-the-sky goal of The Ultimate Muffin. ā€œIn November 2019, the Cygnus 12 vehicle brought to ISS a Zero G oven provided by Doubletree Hotels as an experiment to assess the possibility of baking in space,ā€ NASA wrote in a blog about food on the ISS. ā€œAnd just in time for Christmas, Expedition 61 astronauts Luca S. Parmitano and Christina H. Koch baked chocolate chip cookies that returned to Earth aboard SpaceX 19 in January 2020.ā€

Much to think about.

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