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What determines when the shuttle has to return to earth?
When the turd bin fills up, or would they make the crew use baggies and tell
them to eat less? blake |
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What determines when the shuttle has to return to earth?
"blake" wrote in message
ink.net... When the turd bin fills up, or would they make the crew use baggies and tell them to eat less? blake "Turd bin"? Is that a technical term that they taught you in engineering school? |
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What determines when the shuttle has to return to earth?
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 -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________ "Joe Delphi" wrote in message news:Kk3Rg.714$xI4.684@fed1read11... "blake" wrote in message ink.net... When the turd bin fills up, or would they make the crew use baggies and tell them to eat less? blake "Turd bin"? Is that a technical term that they taught you in engineering school? |
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What determines when the shuttle has to return to earth?
I swear this kid just posts "questions" to be able to say kindergarden
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What determines when the shuttle has to return to earth?
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... -- Frank You know what to remove to reply... Check out my web page: http://www.geocities.com/stardolphin1/link2.htm "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." - Stephen Hawking |
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What determines when the shuttle has to return to earth?
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message .uk... Well, I've seen the 0G urine device, seems to be a kind of semi rectangular pipe end with a sort of seal that you hold against the body area required, an a suction device makes sure that all goes in the right direction. I imagine the solid waste device works in much the same way, though obviously in suits, nappies and tablets seem to be the norm! But the details are interesting. The Skylab method was pretty successful, but when the shuttle toilet was designed it just *had* to be different and it sucked. Well, actually the problem came after you shut the valve that produced the airflow... Eventually the shuttle design got better, but I'd have stuck with the Skylab design, unless there was some reason to avoid that design that I don't know about. I imagine its pretty basic in the Soyuz though.... Does Soyuz even have a toilet? I don't know the details of the Russian space toilets. ;-) Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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What determines when the shuttle has to return to earth?
blake wrote: When the turd bin fills up, or would they make the crew use baggies and tell them to eat less? Try this for a response troll:- ESAD plonk lol |
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