Mystery Explained: Glow in Night Sky Was Astronaut Urine

[xnomad]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200909...astronauturine

http://spaceweather.com/swpod2009/10...rry1_strip.jpg

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?...h=09&year=2009

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

LOL! What did Fred Haise call it in the movie Apollo 13?

[astronut (John)]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

LOL! What did Fred Haise call it in the movie Apollo 13?

The Constellation Uuurrine.

[Wavytone]

Oh great, so now we have sewage in orbit, among the space junk. Lovely. Hope the shuttle has windscreen washers and wipers, they'll need them.

Is that "shuttle" or "****tle" ?

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by Wavytone

Oh great, so now we have sewage in orbit,

You mean that this is a first in 50 years???

I think not...

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

You mean that this is a first in 50 years???

I think not...

Don't have to look that far back. I remember in the news a large "block of ice" going through a residential home roof in Belgium. Coppers, fire brigade , hazmat etc... When they got on site it kinda started smelling and they figure out it broke out from the "exhaust" of a jet liner.

[Ian Robinson]

Great , now there is so much astronaut pee in low orbit that we've a new source of light pollution to worry about .....

Thanks NASA .... Grrrrr .........

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Good old Wiki.

With about 51,006,560,000,000 cubic meters of atmosphere to play with (earth's area multiplied by 100km (the Karman Line)) I'd hardly worry about a few dozen astronaut's-worth of anything.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

When ya gotta you gotta go, I would to like to leave my mark in the heavens.

Cheers Kev.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

Good old Wiki.

With about 51,006,560,000,000 cubic meters of atmosphere to play with (earth's area multiplied by 100km (the Karman Line)) I'd hardly worry about a few dozen astronaut's-worth of anything.

You know what they say though: s**t happens! That beats any statistics or common sense as why it happens.

[Ric]

So next time the Shuttle or ISS passes over

Wear a hat.