Thats about as funny as a fart in a spacesuit.

/had to be said

So I guess my future as an astronaut is nonexistent.

/Dr. Thunderpantz

What the chinese can't tank it for a few days.

/shiat brick

Ah... Yuck

Suspect wanted for questioning:

firedamp=methane and air.
But who the hell calls it that other than coalminers from the 1800's.

/the more you know.

A little too much information...

/still laughs at fart noises

The truth behind the Apollo 1 fire: it was a "plugs out" test in more ways than one.

/Ticket, please!

Oh, you mean Yuhangyuans?

/I get paid for writing what you read, and not cheap money either, and can assure you that a court, rather than a bunch of punk joke swappers, would agree with it heartily.

Deal with it.

justanotherfarkinfarker thank you man i was wondering what the fark was firedamp. and the title Deadly flatulence is the funniest thing i have read all day.

I saw a TV special on space toilets before. One of things has more buttons on it than my TV remote. Apparently it sucks your arse to the seat then vacuums up everything coming out.

So, are they really worried that the concentration of firedamp will reach 4-16% and become dangerous?

Thats a lot of cabbage

LIFTOFF!!!

Why didn't ask people who have done this before? Like the Americans or the Russians? Why do they need to re-invent this?

/Chinese food farts are teh stinkiest.

I love how they deemed it as if it was some great achievement to modern science.
"We made a vacuum that SUCKS! bam! take that ruskies and american pig-dogs!!"
pshhhh
SNL has them beat


/Buys a Dyson Toilet

i say theres nothing worse then beerfarts in the shower.

Beats what the Mercury, Gemini, and early Apollo used. Basically an oval piece of tape stuck to your ass with an attached trashbag.


/gis-ing for pic

fraturence

Brewerd88: In space, there is no such thing as toilet humor.


That's exactly correct. There is only toilet danger and toilet reality, and the two are so closely entangled that they are really one.

gruntmints

/Buys a Dyson Toilet

If China had to buy their suction toilets from Dyson, their space program would go bankrupt. Can't quite justify a $599 for a new vac.

BN0

and it's RoscoePColtrane who'll be buying my next keyboard.

/damn lemonbars...

And further, none of these scatological references are funny, therefore, I am reading this thread from space.

Sometimes I'm blown away by my dog's intestinal gas.

Is that what they meant?

Better headline:

China "Invents" Solution To Problem Solved By NASA Fifty Years Ago

In space, no one can hear you fart.

"home-made 'space toilet'"
You owe me a new keyboard, PDO.

WTF? Firedamp?

Huh. Whoodathunkit? I gots Firedamp comin' out my ass.

/How'd it get in there?

Here is a serious question that I haven't thought about asking before (not that any Fark crowd should know the answer but...):

Do astronauts take enema before flying up in space?

It seems to make sense to clean out intestine before flying, reducing the amount of gas or excrement produced in space.

EvilHamster

I saw a TV special on space toilets before. One of things has more buttons on it than my TV remote. Apparently it sucks your arse to the seat then vacuums up everything coming out.

What about Big Jim and the boys? Whaddya do with them while this is happening? Sounds painful.

/Yikes.

Ground Control to Major Fong...
Ground Control to Major Fong...
Light a match or something, man that's really strong

article would be better if one of the astro um...cosmo--er chinky fly boys or pinko pilots was named Poo Ping

heh heh
poop

mercator_psi wins

Not to be a wet blanket here, but there's a good reason for the Chinese press to equate flatulence with "firedamp". Coal mining (the industry from which the firedamp term comes) is huge in China, and they lost an average of 15 miners per day to mine explosions in 2004. Its probably analagous to the familiarity most of us have with the arcane anatomical term, "carpal tunnel".

Firedamp?

If it's that damp, it's not just flatulence.

uhh.. suction? for like.. anus hickies? I'd hate to have been there for THAT test run.

Sounds like they need to lay that mud in a wind tunnel or something. Of course, pissing into the wind ain't real bright.

Give 'em farkloads of laxatives, and it'll form floating globulets that they can hurl at each other... specially if they freeze 'em.

Of course they'll still need to buckle-up for safety.. just the act of pissing would probably make them tumble end-over-end.

"and emerging from the the Moo Goo Gai Pan 7 is commander Hu Flung Poo and co pilot Poo Ping"

Hu Flug Poo
Brilliant a bilge

Sounds like they were not protected from the terrible secret of space.

I work for the Taikonauts.

So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.

Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know why I vomit after every meal.

But trust me.... You don't.

I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.

This is how bad info gets passed around.

If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do.

Cuz some Farkers belive anything they hear


/sorry, had to do it.

Aviatrix

do we have the original for that cliche ? I'd love to see it in context now.