Mysterious light trail in the night sky turns out to be astronaut piss. - Polidicks

Oh damn. [quote] 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. The water dump was a scheduled task for STS-128 pilot Kevin Ford, who poured out urine and waste water stored aboard the shuttle in preparation for a landing attempt Thursday. The light show Wednesday was aided by an unusually large amount of water being dumped all at once - about 150 pounds (68 kg), said NASA spokeswoman Kylie Clem. Discovery had just undocked from the International Space Station the day before, and had not been able to unload waste water during the 10-day visit. "It would have been a large quantity because we don't do water dumps while docked to the station now," Clem told SPACE.com in an e-mail. "That is a fairly new restriction over the last couple of flights in order to prevent potential contamination of the Kibo module." In general, though, spotting space water dumps from Earth is common, Clem said. 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. One of them, Abe Megahed, photographed the tail at 9:40 p.m. EDT (0140 GMT) Wednesday from Madison, Wisconsin. "I just watched the shuttle and station flyover (8:40 PM CST 9/9/09) and was surprised to see that the shuttle was sporting a massive curved plume," he wrote. "What could it be? Something venting? An OMS burn? RCS thrusters? A massive, record breaking urine dump?" It turns out he wasn't wrong about that last one.[/quote] Pic: [IMG]http://i26.tinypic.com/n6f3af.jpg[/IMG] Looks like a comet. [url]http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090911-space-water-dump.html[/url]

He must have been pissed.

[QUOTE=BJK;17261778]He must have been pissed.[/QUOTE] No.

Ahahaha.

An astronaut said before, after talking about the waste disposal module, "The next time you see a shooting star, it might very well be just that".

There's no source where's the source?

Aww. I didn't see it.

[QUOTE=pie_is_good;17261811]There's no source[/QUOTE] Yeah, I added that two seconds ago :)

[QUOTE=Orkel;17261819]Yeah, I added that two seconds ago :)[/QUOTE] okay. That's pretty funny.

We have been shown who is the boss!

Anything from space looks beautiful.

I never knew piss could be beautiful.

[QUOTE=NoseFinger;17261851]I never knew piss could be beautiful.[/QUOTE] I would say your avatar fits

Its a small world after all [img]http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/actors_films_images/pierce_brosnan_james_bond_007.jpg[/img] [editline]01:32PM[/editline] [editline]01:32PM[/editline] [sp]octopusy[/sp]

So people might mistaken UFOs for piss lol

Google imagesearch "piss javelin". Open first result. Raise voice against he damn astronauts killing people.

[QUOTE=sharaabi;17261979]Google imagesearch "piss javelin". Open first result. Raise voice against he damn astronauts killing people.[/QUOTE] You do realise that that picture is faked?

Well that's it, never trust astronomers again. Astronomer: At 11pm tomorrow a comet is going to pass Earth. Person: It's probably just piss again.

"Sir, i just dumped the waste" "Roger that. Godspeed USS Pisspot"

That there kids is the constellation U-Rine.

did it glow more because of the piss in it? or is it just the same as water?

thatsw hot

That's pretty funny. Makes for a good sight and amusing conversation.

The spectators must haved PISSED themselves [img]http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mojo.jpg[/img] Rate me dumb

I just imagine two horny teens lying on the hood of a car looking up at the night sky. They see it and one looks at the other and says, "Isn't the cosmos so beautiful?" And then they look deep into each others eyes and kiss. Hahaha it was astronaut piss you fools!

I would laugh at those who thought it was some comet or something, but I probably would have assumed the same thing.

lol piss the epitome of humour

Imagin if someone got hit by it.

To me it looks like a leprechaun to me! Who else see the lepricon say HAAAY! [img]http://crunkpanda.com/wodie/leprechaun.jpg[/img]

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