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It might have remained one of the greatest mysteries of the universe, destined never to be solved until a freak recent discovery by the crew of the International Space Station (ISS).

The subject? A tomato grown from seed in microgravity by US astronaut Francisco “Frank” Rubio as part of an agricultural experiment.

Rubio was accused of having eaten the fruit when it inexplicably disappeared more than eight months ago. However, the tiny specimen, or at least its remnants, have now been found, according to members of the seven-strong crew during a live stream this week to celebrate the orbiting outpost’s 25th anniversary.

“Our good friend Frank Rubio has been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato. But we can exonerate him. We found the tomato,” Nasa astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli said, reported by space.com.

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[–] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this is the kind of news i want to see more often

[–] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 31 points 11 months ago

Rogue tomato brought to heel by NASA.

"Not on our watch.", the space agency said.

[–] calabast@lemm.ee 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Great story, but why wouldn't she disclose where they find the tomato!?

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What happens in space stays in space. Also it was in Steve's ass.

[–] TornadoRex@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

Finally some good news around this joint

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just in case anyone wanted to see the kind of environment and context this occured in:

https://youtu.be/QvTmdIhYnes

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Fantastic! Thank you for this. Never not interesting watching apes with minimal anything between them and the great beyond. Beautiful and inspiring.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

good lord it's so fucking loud o.o

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i need to get a taste of it, so i finally know what space radiation tastes like.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 points 11 months ago

Imagine a Space Caprese!