NASA wants your help designing future moon toilets

ENgadget ^ | 06/25/2020 | Racehk England

[BenLurkin]

Lunar gravity is approximately one sixth of Earth’s gravity, so bodily fluids and the like will “fall down,” but more slowly, which brings its own icky challenges.

There’s $35,000 in prize money up for grabs, plus the unending personal glory of being able to say you helped designed a moon toilet. There’s also a junior category for under-18s.

There’s a fairly extensive list of technical requirements for the sought-after toilet, and creators will have to take into account a host of factors including female needs and sickness. For example, while the preferred method for capturing vomit will be emesis bags (“throw up” bags), NASA says that bonus points will be awarded to designs that can capture vomit without requiring crew members to put their head in the toilet. Deadline for submissions is August 17th, with adult winners announced on September 30th, and junior winners on October 20th

[BenLurkin]

[be-baw]

Paging Howard Wolowitz
Paging Howard Wolowitz

[Joe 6-pack]

I think MC Hammer had this problem solved back in the '90s...

[Noumenon]

Brings a whole new meaning to the Home Depot slogan: Let’s DO this!

[Karma_Sherab]

[a fool in paradise]

Day dreaming again.

[redshawk]

Should ask Howard Wolowitz.

[ArtDodger]

This is a great design, except for sitting high up on a wooden railing! :/

[Bob434]

if there’s very little gravity, why use a toilet? just let it float around till it hits a fan

[dfwgator]

BA-WOOOSH! Now that’s a man’s flush!

[Rurudyne]

Airplane, the SHTF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7nSzCiGXk

[BigEdLB]

Let the duo saints, Barry and the Robinette, design it as they are so effing good at everything

[The Sons of Liberty]

NASA wants your help designing future moon toilets

They just spent $23 Mil redesigning toilets to make it easier for women in spacecraft and the ISS.

Make this work and let the taxpayers take a break!

[Fester Chugabrew]

Demand is just about to go through the roof. /s

[real saxophonist]

Oh, shiiii...

[cgbg]

First they need to get folks past what my wife likes to call the Van Halen Belt.....

;-)

[a fool in paradise]

“Corn?!!”

[Magnum44]

[BenLurkin]

Very apropos

[Buckeye McFrog]

Moon Crapper
Waiting for the pile
Two hundred thousand miles
Away

For Moonraker
You sh*t taker
Whatever you're stowing
Best be floating
Away

Two floaters
Off to see the moon
Can't see them go too soon
Oy, vey!

We're after the same
Sewer line's end
Waitin' round the bend
My honeybarrel friend
Moon Crapper
and Me