Solid Gold Poop: Difference between revisions

* In the [[Starfist]] novel ''Technokill'' by Dan Cragg, the alien birds swallow pebbles to help them digest foods, similar to prehistoric dinosaurs. When they excrete the stones, they have been pressurized into gemstones. Unfortunately, the rest of the waste is so toxic that it's impossible for humans to get close to them without serious physical harm.

* ''[[The 13 Clocks]]'' had a woman who cried gemstomes whenever she was sad. Unfortunately by the time the heroes came around, her tears dried up completely due to people telling her sad stories so much. However... she also cries gems when she's laughing hard {{spoiler|only for them to turn back into water after two weeks. Long enough for the heroes' purpose.}}

* In ''[[Animorphs]]'', the secret alien spaceship held inside Area 51 is... an Andalite cess pit. All toilet waste on board Andalite spaceships gets put into a capsule and fired into a star. This one apparently missed, crashed on earth, and has been a highly guarded secret ever since. The humans are blissfully unaware, however.

* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], glitterstim spice, the [[Fantastic Drug]] on which many a vast criminal fortune (including Jabba the Hutt's) has been built, is the poop of a species of underground spiders that live on only one planet in the galaxy.