No self-respecting blog dedicated to bathroom/outhouse lore can overlook the latest trial of the astronauts manning the International Space Station: a malfunctioning toilet! NASA plans on sending a special pump to get the $19 million Russian-made toilet to work again by next week.The following factoid came from a New York Times article: Of all the technological achievements of space travel, none has captured the popular imagination as much as bathroom physics. Mike Mullane, a former astronaut and professional speaker, said questions about the operations of space toilets are the most popular questions from audiences by “more than ten to one” over such questions as “have I seen any aliens” and “did we fake the moon landing.”
Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho is planning to publish a book next year on energy, his political career, and that embarrassing incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, where he tried to solicit gay sex from an undercover officer.
In a related development, Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" will be set to music and performed as an opera at La Scala in Milan in 2011.
UPDATE: The Space Shuttle Discovery arrived at the International Space Station today (2 June) to deliver the much-needed part for the toilet, and also to attach the Japanese-made Kibo lab.
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