"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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The country that was really forthcoming about a space toilet was China
regarding the one on Shenzhou.

Funny, since I know a guy who married a Chinese woman and went to the
province of her birth for the wedding. Trench toilets were not uncommon
(outside of the big cities) at the time.

They even put up a webpage giving the dimensions of the urine and feces
collector tubes the Taikonauts would use:
http://wallacewong.com/wp-content/up...ace-toilet.jpg
It also shows that Taikonauts have completly flat buttocks and either very
loose stools or ones that emerge like rabbit droppings as they appear to
have to go down a tube that a marble would have a hard time fitting
through.

I'm not going to touch this one. :-P

Jeff
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"Many things that were acceptable in 1958 are no longer acceptable today.
My own standards have changed too." -- Freeman Dyson