Alternate Earth

[ShiningIce]

What would the past, present, and future be like if alcohol had never been discovered?

 

[Artoo]

We'd all be stoned off our tits on a Friday night.

 

[ShiningIce]

Oops no drugs either.

 

[Jagermeistered]

I would be a chemist causing all kinds of headaches for the authorities.

 

[c7_assassin]

We'd all be punching ourselves in the head and drinking bogwater to get high. Not a happy state of affairs.

 

[TonyInMyThroat]

The whole premise is simply ridiculous. Physicists have mathematically traced (and confirmed via the LHC) the inevitability of beer all the way back to the big bang; any alternate outcome would be a major violation of the laws of physics.

 

[miskiduk]

Without beer-goggles Anne Widdecombe would never have evolved.

 

[darkscar]

I would have not just took a full shot of pure everclear to get rid of a sore throat.

 

[Wildtime]

My biological parents would've never had me!

 

[ShiningIce]

he whole premise is simply ridiculous. Physicists have mathematically traced (and confirmed via the LHC) the inevitability of beer all the way back to the big bang; any alternate outcome would be a major violation of the laws of physics.

I said if it was never DISCOVERED. Not that it didn't exist. Your response is ridiculous. If human beings never learned of it's potential on the human machine.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Like nobody got the idea to discover how to make meth, or nobody ever figured out that opium and marijuana plants can be smoked and will get you high?

Are you really trying to ask "What if nobody ever got intoxicated"?

 

[ShiningIce]

Yes.

 

[Jagermeistered]

Yes.

Somebody is "high"!! Wait doesn't exist, or does it?

 

[miskiduk]

Would we be allowed to squat with our heads between our legs for ages then jump up and down?

 

[TonyInMyThroat]

I said if it was never DISCOVERED. Not that it didn't exist. Your response is ridiculous. If human beings never learned of it's potential on the human machine.

That would be like saying what if we never “discovered” gravity; beer has always been part of the universe and always will.

As a student of GBUT (Grand Beer Unification Theory), I do admit the difficulty of mathematically reconciling beer with gravity to the point it can no longer be spilled as we approach the singularity of a black hole, to be somewhat discomforting, but efforts continue and new theories are emerging that hold some level of promise.

Don’t forget it was not so long ago that Stephen Hawking first theorized it would take trillions of years for beer to go flat once past the boundary of the event horizon in a black hole (as observed from outside the event horizon of course). So all this is still relatively new science, but does nothing to change our everyday experience with beer.