probably copied it from the Howard Wolowitz design for the waste disposal unit on the space station...
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.
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/magazine/how-to-prepare-yourself-for-space.html
How to Prepare Yourself for Space
Youve 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 dont 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 gravitys assistance. (Dont, and youll risk damaging your bladder when your body wont relieve itself in space.)
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-use-the-bathroom-in-space-3071528
https://www.space.com/22597-space-poop-astronaut-toilet-explained.html
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.
*bafrooms in space ping*
Then you realized what you were looking at ...
Yeah, I guess Buzz was a real slob ...
Watch out for the floaters!