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ISS Food Shortage Cause Revealed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keep-your-hands-off-my-dehydrated-consume dept.

Dan East writes "As previously reported on Slashdot, the two-man crew of the ISS had to ration food intake because the food supply had run mysteriously low. At a recent press release the reason for the shortage was revealed: the previous ISS crew consumed food meant for the other crew. "They had permission to do that but did not record how much they had eaten"."

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  1. New fad diet by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny
    The two U.S. and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station had to rely on a candy-laden diet for five weeks because their predecessors raided the pantry. "Both of us ended up losing a few pounds," U.S. astronaut Leroy Chiao said in a news conference from the station on Wednesday.

    I can see it now, the new "candy only space station" diet fad. I can't wait to see how many pounds I lost after eating fudge and chocolate for the past two weeks.

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    1. Re:New fad diet by PoopJuggler · · Score: 5, Funny

      This will morph into some sort of Low-Carb Cannibalism Diet when they really run out of food...

  2. Simpsons Space Station Food by teiresias · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought they had sturgeon aplenty aboard space stations.

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  3. They ran out of food because... by tsmithnj · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the refridge was an older 16-bit model

  4. I don't believe it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait wait wait.

    You mean the food is missing because someone ate it?

    It wasn't an advanced plasma-based alien civilization surrounding the ship and impregnating it with mysterious "digester rays" that convert protein into a subatomic substance capable of passing through metal? So they could slowly feed their young without being noticed?

    And it's not the case that the crew's flesh is immune to this only because of a freak coincidence based on the structure of their nylon garments and a compound exuded by the human body when weightless?

    And that even as I type this the hungry life forms are growing and preparing to use the same mysterious force in reverse to manifest themselves before the shocked and frightened crew? Broadcast live around the globe so we may all be terrified to witness a strange new life form consume the human astronauts before our very eyes like drinking juice through a straw, leaving the indigestible compounds suspended in midair suggesting just the shape of a former living, breathing human before disappating to the four corners of the ship as surviving crew members weep and pull heir hair in terror, not wanting to be the next to issue the blood-curdling screams?

    I think they should double-check. Just in case.

  5. Because... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In space, no-one can hear your stomach rumble

  6. not surprising... by sci50514 · · Score: 5, Funny

    the previous ISS crew are Americ... never mind.... :)

  7. That's no refrigerator... by Gudlyf · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it's a space station.

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  8. Coming up next ... Donner Pass at Mars by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the ISS crew can't be trusted to restrain their appetites, what's going to happen on a trip to Mars (where half the crew might be in suspended animation)? Donner Party Cookbook