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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/9448862

NASA found a stray, space-grown tomato that went missing for 8 months, clearing the astronaut they all thought ate it

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"See? SEE?! I told you! You people are never going into space with me again, I'll tell you that right now."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I imagine it went down like people looking for the lost TV remote. " stand up you're probably sitting on the damned thing"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I swear our Roku remote it’s made of flubber. If it falls off the couch, it can bounce yards/meters from where it fell and somehow get under things that look impossible. And all silently.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This is literally my eternal struggle

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is exactly like the classic Sherlock Holmes story "The Case of the Missing Space Tomato"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are they providing seeds from that tomato? I want to grow my own space tomatoes. Though eating salad in zero gravity could be tricky.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is a program for schools that has the kids growing seeds that visited space. I don't know who all participates, our schools do it here in Alberta, Canada.

My niece put hers on the schoolbus seat when it was stopping, she was absolutely devastated that she killed her special space plant. Luckily her mom was one of the teachers in the program and had some spare back-up seeds from her class.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We can tell he did not eat the tomato, as he did not turn into a super strong bionic space tomato upon his return to earth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tomato man, does whatever a tomato can!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

turns out, the sentient mold and grew and became incredibly helpful. Imagine the ground crew's surprise when people started talking about 'Kalten' and it was Kalten that fingered the crewmate... to hide the fact that he might have been grown on the tomato.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and it was Kalten that fingered the crewmate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The shit they slipped past us...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

scarcity and the mind