Wasabi threatens the International Space Station
 

A NASA report issued to congress this week showed that the International Space Station faces a number of significant risks - not surprisingly flying space rocks crushing the hull among the biggest risks. But it didn't account for this: Wasabi.Yep, the hot green stuff that goes so well with sushi is a great threat when exposed to weightlessness as it could get in eyes, air ducts and all manner of things that might screw up a space mission.

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According to an AP report: Astronaut Sunita Williams this week was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon and accidentally squirted a load of the green stuff into the air. After a lengthy cleanup, the wasabi was exiled to a cargo bay. As for the other risks, the report said space debris and micrometeorites strikes topped a list of potentially serious risks that, if realized, could harm astronauts, force an orbital evacuation, or destroy the half-built space station, according to the report.

The threat of collisions with visiting spacecraft or an ISS robotic arm, onboard fires, and toxic spills follow closely after. Congress ordered the independent review of potential hazards to the ISS and its expedition crews in 2005. It was released simultaneously to Congress, NASA and the public this week.

The $100-billion orbital observatory is the result of an international agreement that includes NASA and 15 other countries. Currently crewed by three-astronaut teams, the ISS is expected to grow into a six-astronaut installation with as much habitable space five-bedroom home by 2010. Its exterior be almost as large as a football field in length when complete.

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I like piling the wasabi on...I love the pain.

hmm guess we gotta eat more wasabi

who need wasabi when you got sake?:pimp

Wouldnt it be safest just to leave the Wasabi down on earth?

Richard Simmons could skip really high when exercising and hit his head on the space station too.

one of the astonauts could let you a really wicked fart, knocking the station out of orbit.

The sun could fail to rise at the right time, running the space station out of electricity and heat, which would kill the people inside.

Gravity could be temporarily revoked, and the space station could just float away.

Wild sex between two of the station inhabitants causes a violent rocking motion that sends the station into a death spiral, where it hits the freedom tower and knocks if down, with a small piece also hitting the sears tower and the hoover dam.

Or the most likely: Congress will quit funding it just as it is completed, the Russians will take over, and it will slowly degrade like their last space station did.

the biggest threat will always be human error