NASA once tried to power a satellite with a 20-kilometer-long wire, which is basically the biggest space spaghetti ever cooked. The plan? Use Earth’s magnetic field to generate electricity. The result? A giant floating Space Noodle that snapped after just 19.7 km, lit up the sky, and re-entered the atmosphere in a blaze of pasta glory. On the bright side, it did make enough power to run three toasters at once. Humanity may not have conquered the galaxy that day… but we sure made the goofiest space experiment in history.