Nov 20, 2008 8:00pm
Mushrooms In Space
EmailABC News’ Gina Sunseri reports: Cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov called down to the Russian control room from the International Space Station to report something unexpected in a corner of the space station: mushrooms. They aren’t an experiment. Somehow mushrooms are growing where they shouldn’t be growing in a dank dark corner of the space station. So in addition to the toilet, the kitchen, the bedrooms, the fridge, they have a produce garden as well. No tool bags were lost during the spacewalk today.
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This just demonstrates the force of “Nature”, life will exist wherever it can, no bible required.
Posted by: JR | November 20, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm
How do you say “There’s a fungus among us!” in Russian?
Posted by: esskay | November 20, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
P.S. I’m glad to hear that no female astronaut lost her purse today. It could have been worse the last time: if she’d had her keys in that one she might have gotten locked out of the space station and had to call her husband to fly up to bring her a spare set…
Posted by: esskay | November 20, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
Perhaps these “space mushroom” mutations will be what does in the human race as protrayed in many sci-fi pictures. It would have been awesome if they were growing OUTSIDE the station.
Posted by: Edge | November 21, 2008, 2:57 am 2:57 am
I wonder what it’s like to shroom in zero gravity dude!
Posted by: Shroomin' | November 21, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Gosh, what a wonderful discovery, it reminds me of the time I sat in front of my TV playing the original Super Mario64(c)(tm) on my original Nintendo64(c)(tm) and after day 9 small Mushrooms began to grow in between my toes and inside my belly button! Glorious! :)
Posted by: Samuel Hogan, 3IC | November 15, 2009, 4:36 am 4:36 am