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Astronauts Traveling To Mars Could Be Protected By a Poop Shield
(Thanks to RussellMc)
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March 04, 2013
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So my dog is only trying to protect my floors from cosmic radiation?
Posted by: Just Some Guy | March 04, 2013 at 08:32 AM
what could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: mudstuffin | March 04, 2013 at 08:51 AM
Are you sure it's Mars and not Uranus?
Posted by: JG | March 04, 2013 at 09:20 AM
Didn't Radioactive Poop Shield open for Federal Duck?
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | March 04, 2013 at 09:27 AM
Does this writer know that ozone is not a place? (Although an "O-zone" does sound like a nice place to visit).
And "there's no place for that material to go"? They must need a bigger space, so to speak.
Posted by: Steve | March 04, 2013 at 09:32 AM
Check out the book "Packing for Mars" by Mary Roach.
With first hand accounts of what astronauts live through it will disabuse most people of wanting to take a space trip. (Ex.-microscopic particles of human waste floating in the capsule)
Posted by: poker | March 04, 2013 at 09:37 AM
Ozone isn't a place? So where have I been lost in, so to speak, all these years?
Posted by: Omniskeptic | March 04, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Two drinks of wine, one drink of gin, and I'm lost in the ozone again.
Posted by: Commander Cody | March 04, 2013 at 11:15 AM
What happens to all the radioactive poo then ? Or we going to use it to power our mandated 70mpg cars ?
Posted by: Clankie | March 04, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Ship to be pushed by the solar wind. In space nobody can smell your stank.
Posted by: Loudmouth | March 04, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Washington could certainly build one of these to protect itself.
Posted by: Bill Hudgins | March 04, 2013 at 12:55 PM