[DUMBGRUNT]

I'd rather see than be one!

[raygunfan]

probably copied it from the Howard Wolowitz design for the waste disposal unit on the space station...

[Carriage Hill]

When I was a 7-8yr old kid, back in West Virginia, we’d go to the local Walgreen’s and but Tootsie rolls, small and large, and take them with us to he public pool, wrapped in our towels.

We’d each take a handfull and let them float around the public pool, causing a massive exodus of everyone but us. We’d be pitching them around at anyone who didn’t get out, and soon the pool’d be cleared.

It only worked once or twice, as the lifeguards caught on, quickly. LOL; good ol’ days.

[DannyTN]

[Jolla]

I would have thought they would have had them on a pretty serious diet for a couple of days before and during the mission to avoid such items

[SMGFan]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/magazine/how-to-prepare-yourself-for-space.html
How to Prepare Yourself for Space
“You’ve been trying not to pee in your pants your whole life,” says the retired astronaut Scott Kelly, who wore a diaper for liftoff and landing on all four of his space missions. Going into orbit will require you to confront your body in ways you don’t have to on Earth. Get over decades of conditioning by rehearsing basic bodily functions on land: Put on a diaper, lie on the floor with your legs up on the couch, and practice urinating without shame or gravity’s assistance. (Don’t, and you’ll risk damaging your bladder when your body won’t relieve itself in space.)

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-use-the-bathroom-in-space-3071528

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-do-astronauts-go-to-the-bathroom-in-space-2174968/

https://www.space.com/22597-space-poop-astronaut-toilet-explained.html

[Dagnabitt]

They need to take the more useful step of simulating gravity with rotating structures. Besides the toilet problems, weightlessness is terrible for humans.

But considering how little we’ve done in human spaceflight since Apollo, that’s probably a tall order. Let’s see if the USA can actually put someone into low earth orbit again for the first time since 2011.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*bafrooms in space ping*

[IronJack]

Back in the 80's, I had a long beer-fueled conversation with Jack Swigert, the command pilot for Apollo 13. He said that when they dumped the urine holding tank, the liquid would instantly crystallize in the cold and vacuum of space and, if the sun caught the crystals just right, he said it was a beautiful sight, a rainbow.

Then you realized what you were looking at ...

[jmcenanly]

You should read the instructions before you use it.

[x]

Yeah, I guess Buzz was a real slob ...

[hinckley buzzard]

I remember watching early space flights, once with an LPN, off duty. Her first question was, how they eliminated waste. Practical— you bet.

[damper99]

Watch out for the floaters!