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Offline phalanx

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Space Toilet.
« on: February 11, 2023, 10:16:41 AM »
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Well, it is a real issue, both the containment and the recycling. It just doesn't get discussed much in public. But, it is an important issue for astronaut training. And, as we try to put human habitats in more remote places, it will have less ability to deal with unreliable systems and processes, as well as a greater need to not waste the recyclable "resources".

I remember politicians in Congress giving NASA grief about a "million dollar toilet seat". It was used as a joke about NASA for quite a while. But not by those astronauts who used to have to tape plastic bags to their rear ends - and sometimes failed to achieve perfect "containment" in small spaces like Gemini capsuls.

So, while this may not be a good place to discuss it without unnecessarily unprofessional comments getting interjected, it is a subject that serious engineers need to pay attention to for designing space craft and off-Earth habitats.

It works on a vacuum system into a bag, that might be needing a return to Earth for examination. Handles so you can hold yourself down where you need to be, when you need to be. You don't want anything like this floating around in the ISS ,or a Space Craft, It would form into a ball shape and hit things.
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Re: Space Toilet.
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2023, 09:24:21 AM »
I don't think they have chili and
pickled eggs on outer space missions
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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2023, 11:22:21 AM »
I don't think they have chili and
pickled eggs on outer space missions

Internal Atmospheric problem lol. Called FART.
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Re: Space Toilet.
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2023, 11:47:55 AM »
I don't think they have chili and
pickled eggs on outer space missions

Internal Atmospheric problem lol. Called FART.

Might be some expensive NASA acronym
Fast
Abdominal
Rejection
Toss

You know how the Johnson Space Center
people like to bandy those terms around
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« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2023, 11:52:05 AM »
I don't think they have chili and
pickled eggs on outer space missions

Internal Atmospheric problem lol. Called FART.

Might be some expensive NASA acronym
Fast
Abdominal
Rejection
Toss

You know how the Johnson Space Center
people like to bandy those terms around

Good one Ranger lol.
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Re: Space Toilet.
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2023, 11:57:38 AM »
Scotty!  Maneuvering thrusters!

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Re: Space Toilet.
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2023, 12:02:25 PM »
Captain Kirk ! !
I can't hold it any longer  ! !
I said full power Scotty! !

Mr. Sulu ! !
Can't you control yourself  ? ! ?
18 MINUTES.  . . . . . .
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« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2023, 12:39:02 PM »
Captain Kirk ! !
I can't hold it any longer  ! !
I said full power Scotty! !

Mr. Sulu ! !
Can't you control yourself  ? ! ?

Trapped in your space suit lol. I’m sure this has happened before. And in the ISS.
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« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2023, 01:17:27 PM »
I always think of Don Knotts when
he asked Leslie Neilson about how
to relieve himself in the space capsule.
And the peanut butter in the computer
tape
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Re: Space Toilet.
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2023, 02:44:24 PM »
Fascinating topic.  8)
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