Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/15/the-space-station-is-getting-a.html
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Just as long as they don’t push the old one out of the airlock.
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Why a new system? The tipping point was a bad seal combined with Taco night. Zero G and corn do not mix.
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Who thought “thigh bars” was a better idea than a thing to hook your toes under? Who?
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Ah but who’s gonna get the short straw to fit it?
“I’ll be round first thing and it’ll be done next Tuesday!”
“Oh dear, the van’s broken down”.
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So they are finally replacing the Wolowitz Zero Gravity Waste Dispoal System? Past time!
Damn! Ninja’d again. Must be slow on the uptake today.
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But is it a bidet?
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Space BidetTM - coming soon to the Boing Boing Shop!
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I shall keep an eye out for the new ass-teroid.
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I’d like to know exactly how a zero-G toilet is tested on Earth. Do they test it in the “Vomit Comet”? If so, we can all think up ways of doing that w/o having to use the on-seat services of an actual person. (You’d only need the feces, or — much better yet — a substance mimicking it’s possible morphologies and densities w/o the downsides.) Still would be kind of disgusting though.
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This looks like a fine apparatus that would in no way suck your butthole inside out
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Ah. Manure from Heaven.
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Another high priority mission for Elon.
Can’t be helped. Physiology must be dealt with – tout de suite.
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Something like that actually occurred in the 60s, I think, in an undersea human habitat (occupied for related research). Positive seal at the seat with a strong vacuum resulted in one of the researchers having a good portion of his large intestine being pulled out. He survived, but…
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As long as the new toilet is not installed too close to the machine which manufactures all the food on the space craft…
Fun fact:
“le toot suite” is a polite euphemism for the WC!
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