२२ सप्टेंबर, २००९

"Astronaut urine spotted in skies above North America."

That glowing streak of light was just "a fortnight's worth of astronaut waste."

२६ टिप्पण्या:

I'm Full of Soup म्हणाले...

God, would that they had emptied it over the DC Beltway and Congress!



wv = mismst

AllenS म्हणाले...

Are you telling me that the drizzle that was falling this morning, wasn't rain?

Unknown म्हणाले...

I thought it was the WON streaking across the firmament bringing the Sun with Him.

Methadras म्हणाले...

Don't dump your waste in space and tell me that it's raining.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Urine Major, the big beer.

J. Cricket म्हणाले...

I wonder what this post has to do with the recent Althouse pearl that "we also do a lot of terrible — and often sexual — things to ourselves." On second thought, no I don't wonder.

garage mahal म्हणाले...

I've read about people impaled on the ground from urine icicles jettisoned from airplanes. What a way to go. I'll take the golden shower thank you very much!

Bissage म्हणाले...

I speak for all prostatically-challenged Americans when I say: GOOD FOR THEM!!!

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Wasn't it Euripides who wrote in his Greek comedy that the rain was "The Gods pissing thru a sieve"?

chuck b. म्हणाले...

I tweeted about this 2 weeks ago.

अनामित म्हणाले...

Welcome to Barack Obama's America, where the government literally pisses on you.

Heh.

Kev म्हणाले...

(the other kev)

So that was the constellation Urion?

Angst म्हणाले...

Are we sure it was just urine?

Ann, do you need to add add a "Poopie" tag?

Inquiring minds and all that ;->

KCFleming म्हणाले...

Golden showers fill your eyes
Icicles falling from the skies
Urinating spacemen don't be blue
Just be glad it's not number two

Tibore म्हणाले...

Ahhhh... nothing like the coarsening of modern society by the ready, unambiguous, and unembarrased discussion of the scatalogical. Good job Telegraph.co.uk. Good job.

AllenS म्हणाले...

From the miniseries:

Conversations With A Cosmonaut
by
AllenS

Cosmonaut: "Houston, we have a problem."

Houston: "What's the problem?"

Cosmonaut: "Look out below!"

Fin

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

"So that was the constellation Urion?"

Yes, just 10 degrees above Uranus.

garage mahal म्हणाले...

Golden showers fill your eyes
Icicles falling from the skies
Urinating spacemen don't be blue
Just be glad it's not number two


Beautiful. Front page material if there ever was.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

We need a drummer in this room.

Triangle Man म्हणाले...

@Pogo

Meant to be sung to "Golden Slumbers"?

Bruce Hayden म्हणाले...

The reality, I suspect, is that it all burned up on reentry. If there were indeed glowing streaks, that was exactly what it was, the stuff burning up upon reentry.

Triangle Man म्हणाले...

@BH

My understanding is that the streaks were light from the sun reflected off of the peecicles.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

@bagoh20, what do you call a person who hangs around with real musicians?


The drummer.

Kev म्हणाले...

(the other kev)

@Big Mike, and what do you call a real musician without a girl friend?



Homeless.

Cedarford म्हणाले...

Poor jerks! A couple of months ago the Space Station urine recycler was announced to much fanfare, then broke down in a few days. Meanwhile the advocates of manned space exploration are talking about moon bases where everything is recycled and a mission to mars where everything is recycled, crops are grown.
Meanwhile they don't even have the ability to distill water out of piss reliably while huddled inside the Earth's magnetosphere safe from all that nasty cancer-causing, cataract-causing radiation they will encounter if they ever go anywhere...which they also have no clue what to do about, either.

Sad times for NASA as far as manned space exploration goes...but the best of times for robotic, nearly perpetually working and lasting spacecraft and rovers, with sensors far better than human senses..

Methadras म्हणाले...

bagoh20 said...

"So that was the constellation Urion?"

Yes, just 10 degrees above Uranus.


With the great void in-between known as The Taint.