How Astronauts plan travel in space: Have a shield made of poop

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23...hield.html

http://gizmodo.com/5988138/astronauts-tr...oop-shield

This is quite literally the shittiest idea ever.

I came to this thread expecting Cracked.com for some reason, and i'm very disappointed.

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I came to this thread expecting Cracked.com for some reason, and i'm very disappointed.

Hahaha. It's very real and serious.

..I don't think I wanna be an astronaut anymore.

Now if only we could use all the pomegranate from the internet instead...

I was expecting this thread to be about nuclear propulsion.

My first thought was ewww.

My second thought (from the Engineer in me): This a rather elegant solution that bypasses 3 incredibly difficult problems.

Pretty cool article. Sending people past Mars is a pretty ambitious job, but I am curious to see how they solve some of these problems. Interesting times ahead

Not sure sending one male and one female would lead to a very productive mission. It might be better to change it to two girls one ship.

Saw this and thought it was funny.

I wonder how the investors took this

I just wonder, if they are only gonna orbit around mars and turn back, how is this any different than sending a satelite? It's extremely risky if anything, seems no different than that RedBull guy jumping from the edges of our atmosphere.

Also I don't get why they put dealing with feces as such an incredible obstacle to deal with? In the scenario they don't need them for anything , can't they just dump them into the nothingness?

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The hell this has to do with anything? ...