Women can't get pregnant in space?! So much for populating other planets...

Say goodbye to your dreams of a white picket fence on Mars: intergalactic baby-making could be a bust. New research from the University of Kansas suggests that space travel damages our reproductive organs. How do they know? A few brave lab rats were sent on a space f---ing mission and came back just as they left: barren. While the research did prove that being a lab rat isn't always a crap job, it did suggest we jumped the gun on the whole space travel thing. Shouldn't we have figured out if we could procreate before we got everyone juiced up about leaving the planet?

There's still some hope. Another study by University of Texas researchers monitored fertility in male astronauts and found them ready, willing and able to get their spouses pregnant just days after returning from a mission. Female astronauts were less successful, though that could have been related to their age rather than reproductive damage.

Organ capabilities aside, there's the bigger problem of having actual space sex without the help of gravity. Anyone ever try to do it in a pool? Don't bother. Clearly, this is something we need to look further into if we're going to raise kids with Luke Skywalker as we originally planned in 1982.

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