TP to Uranus

Ryan and I are big fans of Who Gives a Crap, the certified B Corp that supplies our eco-friendly toilet roll. So I was thrilled this morning to discover that they’re setting their sights a lot higher, and developing a mission to send toilet paper to Uranus!*

With billionaires chucking cars into space and taking their midlife crises to the Moon, Who Gives a Crap thought it was time to do something truly meaningful. And when they found out the aerospace industry was sending a spacecraft to our #2 favourite planet, they saw an opportunity. Discovering Uranus is literally filled with gas, that just sealed the deal. 

Plus it’s a lot more feasible than their first idea – putting their TP in a black hole.

Very. It’s one of our solar system’s gas giants, consisting primarily of hydrogen, helium, a little methane, and a teensy weensy trace of ammonia and water. In short, it smells like farts.

Approximately 9 years, and that’s without bathroom breaks. Uranus is 3.2 billion kilometres (about 2 billion miles) from Earth. It’s the furthest any roll of toilet paper has ever travelled.

Who Gives a Crap are currently crowdsourcing names for the spacecraft on their Instagram page. You can submit your ideas in the comments. Their personal favourites right now are High Plyer and C.R.A.P. (Cosmic Roll Aerospace Program).

Much of the mission is still confidential.  Who Gives a Crap will keep us updated with any new information as it becomes available.

*Yes, it is that day, and everything you read has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

While it’s fun to think about sending TP to Uranus, and to learn how astronauts go to the toilet in space, there are about 2 billion people on this planet that don’t have access to a toilet. As well as making kick-ass