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[challenge entry] Due to NASA funding cutbacks
Space exploration is now limited to charting and mapping blanket sky



Edit: my 500th post is a frontpage. how bloody good is that? :)

From the Budget Cuts challenge. See all 747 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! Sack Sack - Norfolks laziest, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:05, archived)
# hehehe
classic telly!
(I helped save b3ta! sunny_jimbob, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:07, archived)
# oh hell yeah

not bad for my 500th post that....
(I helped save b3ta! Sack Sack - Norfolks laziest, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:14, archived)
# Pea Roast
(I helped save b3ta! barc0de, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:39, archived)
# HAHAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAH

Button Moon is GREAT!

Woo
(I helped save b3ta! Generationgav, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:07, archived)
# Yay for Mr Spoon.
If you are floating in outer space and release a fart are you propelled forwards?
(I helped save b3ta! spoonmuppet, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:07, archived)
# yes
yes you are, next?

p.s. IF you are then youre naked and probably decompressing violently at the same time so its largely irrelevant.
(DopplerSow, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:08, archived)
# unless there was some sort of non-return vent in your space suit.
Currently I imagine the astronauts just have to put up with the odour until their air scrubbers get to work.
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:10, archived)
# I kind of meant
in a spacecraft, in outer space. So with air but no gravity. No matter, wasn't intending on testing it out just yet.
(I helped save b3ta! spoonmuppet, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12, archived)
# No
you just pollute your spacesuit.

If you're not wearing a spacesuit, in theory you would be pushed forward, but the combined effects of all your bodily fluids gently boiling are likely to dominate.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Nostril, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12, archived)
# yay
(I helped save b3ta! Sunshine Elephant, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:07, archived)
# Having said that,
the technology involved in making a baked bean tin that size, and then firing it into space, must have been quite something.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:08, archived)
# and what happened to the beans?
(I helped save b3ta! thorpe www.voodootrombonequartet.com, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:10, archived)
# I expect
they were sent to Ethiopia and given to the starving people.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12, archived)
# actually I imagine
that with the bureacracy associated with the UN, there's probably some huge baked bean mountain somewhere.
(I helped save b3ta! thorpe www.voodootrombonequartet.com, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:13, archived)
# they ate them
then used to resultant gases to fuel an ecologically sound propulsion method
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:23, archived)
# Lidl
has them on special - 98,373g tins for 37p, 5 for £1.50
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12, archived)
# Bwahahahahah
Tea.
Monitor.
J-Cloth.
(I helped save b3ta! Bud Muhnquai Update your profile or fuck off, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:09, archived)
# That is rather fantabulistic!

Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:17, archived)