Space Plankton?

Gee you'd think there would be something about it on NASA's news feed.....?

http://www.nasa.gov/

nope, nothin'....

I read something similar quite awhile ago and I can't remember where. It was some years ago. The plankton weren't in space but at a very, very high altitude - well into the stratosphere. Around 30-40 km I think, detected by instruments aboard a research balloon.

How they got even that high up was something of a mystery. At lower altitudes, say, in Earth's thermosphere high-temp molecules colliding with airborne plankton might push them farther up, but at the ISS' altitude there's not much there that can give a push. Electric fields maybe?

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Sushi + 24 hours + NASA toilet + jettison = space plankton. Mystery solved.

[This is the first installment in the new "No Shit, Sherlock" (or Airlock) series.]

Oscar the Grouch must be on board, with diarrhea. That just makes matters worse.

Mutinous crewmembers can be made to walk the plankton.......

Arrrgh!