NoFastMem wrote:
Marmite: Discuss.
Sold as "yeast extract", Marmite is really processed tholin (a thick, black tarry organic substance), which is secretly shipped from specialist extraction facilities on Titan. Raw tholin is harvested from drainage channels and basin areas, processed by the facilites there and then boosted into orbit by a mass driver.
Once in orbit, ion propulsion is employed to accelerate the tholin containers into the suns gravity well where they travel for years before decelerating the last few months into a steady earth orbit. They are then recovered by specialist probes maintained by the IIS and their contents either shipped back by returning shuttle flights, or carefully allowed to aerobrake against the atmosphere and fall to splashdown for recovery.
The processed tholin is then packaged as marmite and sold to the customer.
Not to be confused with vegemite, which is actually processed turd.
