Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/25/zero-gravity-coffee-cup-was-not-supposed-to-look-like-a-vulva.html
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ey! until (and if) astronaut Donald Pettit is specifically asked if vulva shaping was an aspect of his design process then i don’t believe we may say with utter certainty that it “was not supposed to look like a vulva” (…i said, “good-day Sir!” [winkish emoji])
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Oh, you’re supposed to drink it from that end?
was not supposed to look like a vulva
Ok, but uh, it kinda does. And they did intend for it to have that shape for - checks notes - capillary channel flow.
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The alliterative name for this coffee cup is rather obvious.
What about an almost fully enclosed volume for the “cup” but with a straw/check valve. Works by suckillary action. (Just kidding; I see problems with it already.)
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Huh. An astronaut invented the fleshlight. Science works!
It’s nice that there is new space technology that doesn’t look like a giant penis.
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“I’ll be over here, eating my coffee.”
“Don’t you mean, ‘drinking your coffee’?”
“I meant what I said.”
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Coffee-lingus?
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Every human-made object is either a vulva or a penis. We can’t help ourselves.
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reports were some astronauts could not figure out how to drink from it, even with instructions and another crewmember pointing to the spout and saying “RIGHT THERE!”
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But in freefall, what is “upside down”?
That means you’re 69-ing the cup.
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Wow. $95 for the ceramic, $650 for the flight approved plastic one! And that one is not dishwasher safe.
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This is all I know about zero gravity coffee cups:
100a Stern
100/107/108 Railing
100b Propeller Shaft Hull Exit
101 Water Line
104 Bow
105a Keel (Stern)
105c Keel (Bow)
106 Scuttle Hatch
109a Bow Starboard Pulpit
109b Bow Port Pulpit
Since it appears that vulvas are optimally designed for drinking out of in zero-g, it makes NASAs initial reluctance to have women astronauts even more sub optimal.
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