Brian Gaff wrote:

Why are people so interested in toilets in space. I remember listening to an
interview with one of our British astronauts, and he says questions about
the toilet are the most often asked.

Brian


I'd say that it comes from an understanding that most spacecraft
have little in the way of privacy options, the use of spacesuits on many
occasions (espically in the Vostok, Mercury, Gemini days when one was
suited during the entire flight), and possibly a general (and correct)
sense that these things can't be done in the usual way in weightlessness.

(Though as I said in the other thread, that intuitive public
understanding, may not extend to the difficulty of having sex in free
fall. That's likely to become question #2, one day. But while we don't
necessairily have to have sex, we *all* have to answer nature's call,
periodically. It's something we all can identify with.)

Remember, the only intentional joke in the movie '2001: A Space
Odyssey' were the long instructions on the door of a zero-g rest room...


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