Fuck. I made a wish on that!

[Ian David]

The Space Shuttle's Beautiful Piss Show in the Sky



What looks in this photo like a comet with a stunning, beautiful tail is actually the Space Shuttle Atlantis, moments after it dumped a huge payload of urine and other waste in preparation for landing last week.

Space.com: "The beautiful trail in the sky looked like a mysterious celestial event. In reality, it was urine. Some skygazers were treated to the unexpected view of a bright sparkling glow Wednesday night, created when astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery dumped the waste out into space...Waste water usually freezes upon jettison into a cloud of tiny ice droplets. Then when the sun hits, the ice sublimates directly into water vapor and disperses in space. A number of people in North America apparently spotted Wednesday's dump, and some sent pictures to the Web site SpaceWeather.com."

More:
http://www.towleroad.com/2009/09/the-space-shuttles-big-piss-show-in-the-sky.html

[peace13]

1. What a disgusting process!

Acid rain anyone?

[damntexdem]

7. Urine big trouble now!

It's number one! It's number one!

[peace13]

8. LOL! n/t

[pokercat999]

2. Art Bell where are you?......nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. "Tinkle, tinkle, little star... "

[PuraVidaDreamin]

5. LOL!

my sides hurt I'm LOLing so hard

[krispos42]

4. So now when a frozen chunk of airliner waste...

...falls from the sky and smashed through your roof, you'll know why!


And then you'll have to think "why they hell did they grant THIS one?"

:-)

[damntexdem]

6. When you piss upon a star.

Makes no difference ...

[pokerfan]

9. I thought they recycled the urine

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090520-space-urine.html

[Salviati]

12. On the space station it makes sense to, so you're not ferrying water up there all the time

But on the space shuttle, not so much. The longest that they're up there so far has been 18 days, so it's probably easier to take the water that they need rather than the machine to recycle it.

I bet it's protocol though for any astronauts to use the ISS toilets though when the shuttle is docked there, so that there is a net flow of water to the station...

[Orsino]

10. Under Bush's NASA directors, the shuttle also emitted vinegar. n/t

This is change we can relieve in!

[bananas]

11. The Wolowitz Zero Gravity Human Waste Disposal System works!

[eppur_se_muova]

13. The constellation Urion flies again ...

This was a good memory test! Look at National Geographic, April, 1966, page 548, in the article "Space Rendezvous" by Kenneth Weaver, about Geminis 6 and 7. There is a colour photo of a urine dump, vented by Gemini 7, with the caption: "Constellation Urion", astronaut Schirra jokingly labelled this photograph at the postflight press conference. Droplets of urine, vented from G-7 at twilight and instantly frozen in space, follow as miniature satellites. They eventually sublimate and vanish, like dry ice."

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000804.html

[Odin2005]

14. LOL!

[Thor_MN]

15. Next flight, they'll try writing their names...