Missing tomatoes ketchup with ISS crew after almost a year lost in space There is good news and bad news regarding the two tomatoes lost aboard the International Space Station (ISS) last year. The good news is that they've been found. The bad news is that they look less than appetizing. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio lost track of the fruits after harvesting them from the eXposted Root On-Orbit Test …
Or maybe, in this same few million years, while Frank Rubio is in stasis on this very space ship, their descendants will evolve into a humanoid form named Tom, with plump and juicy red skin instead of cat fangs. The Toms will revere "The holy solanum mother, saved by Firank the Doofus, who was frozen in time, ... and shall returneth to lead us to the promised soil"!
Actually what do they do with 'waste' if they don't bring it back to Earth?
Pretty obvious its not shot out the airlock at least not without Rimmer's assistance. Who would want their sputnik coated with the brown stuff?
All I can imagine is that the waste is stored aboard the space station awaiting the station's eventual planned de-orbit when all the hoarded crap will rain down over our heads.
I read it and imagined some tomatoes having escaped an experiment and floated off into space (à la that toolbag a few weeks back) only to "catch up" with it on a future orbit.
Maybe they were outside being tested for exposure to space? Sounds weird, and how likely is it that they'd bother to catch the tomatoes even if they did come within reach of the ISS agai...
Oh, *okay*, now that I've read the story it's much clearer. Not so much "lost in space" as "fallen behind a radiator".
Which is definitely more plausible, but sadly, nowhere near as interesting as someone hovering around the outside of the ISS getting unexpectedly splatted with a rotten space tomato.
Can't help thinking of the greatest movie theme song EVER:
Attack of the killer tomatoes!
Attack of the killer tomatoes!
They'll beat you, bash you,
Squish you, smash you,
Chew you up for brunch,
And finish you off for dinner or lunch!
(... and there's MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM! Mwaa-haa-haaaa!)
Pah. Your feral tomatoes would be hogweed-haired to death by my Giant Hogweed.
Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge
Royal beast did not forget
Soon they escaped, spreading their seed
Preparing for an onslaught, threatening the human race
Mighty Hogweed is avenged
Human bodies soon will know our anger
Kill them with your Hogweed hairs
Heracleum mantegazziani!
Sonny Carter took Finchers Bar-b-Que on a mission. The sandwich was no problem, but the Brunswick Stew had to be thickened so it would stay in the cup.
https://www.finchersbbqga.net
Check out the menu. One of the old locations was only a mile from where we lived when I was a kid. If the wind was right, you could smell the meat being smoked overnight. Back then we slept with the windows open (note: before a/c)
In the middle of the night the mutant tomatoes silently extricated themselves from the sample cabinet and went on the prowl. The next morning a technician found the night guard drained of blood and with a look of terror on his petrified face. Shortly thereafter a loud sound was heard and a blue box materialized in the space lab room.
"Have a jelly baby?" a tall man with a scarf offered to the astonished technician. "They're very good."
Subway have said those tomatoes are perfectly fine and could be used in their footlong sandwiches as they're actually LESS rotted and nasty than Subway's own "fresh" version.....
Apparently there's quite the bidding war between Subway, McD and BK for these rare specimens. Also guessing there's still scientific value in it, ie studying how stuff decays in space.
They look brown to me, maybe they are the missing poo.
"ASTRONAUT Tim Peake was warned about a poo on the loose in the zero-gravity International Space Station.
He was part of a crew ordered to “keep an eye out” for the missing floater."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/24689062/brit-astronaut-tim-peake-poo-international-space-station/
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