Unique astronaut job perk: Create a SHOOTING STAR by having a dump

It's celebration time aboard the International Space Station as 'nauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko gallop past the halfway point of their "One Year Crew" extended space sojourn, and share with us various details of life as a long term space resident. The main purpose of the duo's extended stay is to gauge the long-terms …

[Your alien overlord - fear me]

Now I want to be an astronaut - I want my turds to light up like shooting stars.

What a story to tell the grandchildren - look up and make a wish, wish that that turd doesn't land on your head!!!!

[Thecowking]

If you're producing stools that can survive re-entry, see a doctor immediately.

[Little Mouse]

The technical term for ones that do reach the ground is "meteorshite"

[ratfox]

Twins and space travel

I know how this ends: The twin who comes back is much younger than the one who stayed on earth, right?

[Sgt_Oddball]

Just like star trek

NASA likes having a shat in space....

Mines the red one with the phaser burns...

[Little Mouse]

Re: Just like star trek

Q: Why did Lt Uhura?

A: Because William Shatner

[TitterYeNot]

and look like shooting stars...

Twinkle twinkle little poo,

How I wonder how you do.

Up above the world so high,

A flaming turd up in the sky.

Hmmm, no, not quite the same somehow...

[hatti]

Klingons

I hope they remembered the bog roll before blast off to prevent a Klingon attack.

[ravenviz]

trumpeting mankind

LOL

[Tom 7]

Phoenix Asteroids

If they drink Guinness does their poo burn black?

[Anonymous Coward]

If your turds are large and sturdy enough to make it to the ground, you have serious problems!

[Mark York 3]

Updated lyrics for "A New England" by Billy Bragg (Or Kirsty)

"I saw two shitting stars last night

I wished on them but they came down from satellites

It's so wrong to crap from space hardware

Oh fuck Oh damn now it's in my hair......."

[Drudgery Leak]

Pretty soon they will discover a mysterious form of "brown matter" that appears to defy microgravity - ladies and gentlemen I give you - the everlasting floater.

Coat because it could be a meteor shower outside ... and that was pretty poor ...

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not a shooting star

Its a shitshow!

[John Brown (no body)]

Exercise?

Are these guys not doing much or any exercise? If they are doing the sort of exercise that we normally see 'nauts on (in?) the ISS, then I'm not sure how much monitoring and testing will help people recover from long terms in bed on Earth.

I'm sure we'll learn plenty from the experience but sometimes it feels like they are adding in stuff that really isn't applicable just to tick more boxes.