The Wikipedia on the Space Toilet is full of $hit, according to them Astronauts bag it up themselves and put a twist tie on it.
4 2016-12-31 by Beneficial1
"A male astronaut urinates directly into the funnel from a distance of two or three inches away. The female funnel is oval and is two inches by four inches wide at the rim. Near the funnel's rim are small holes or slits that allow air movement to prevent excessive suction. The vacuum chamber is a cylinder about 1-foot (0.30 m) deep and six inches wide with clips on the rim where waste collection bags may be attached and a fan that provides suction. Urine is pumped into and stored in waste storage drawers. Solid waste is stored in a detachable bag made of a special fabric that lets gas (but not liquid or solid) escape, a feature that allows the fan at the back of the vacuum chamber to pull the waste into the bag. When the astronaut is finished, he or she then twists the bag and places it in a waste storage drawer. Samples of urine and solid waste are frozen and taken to Earth for testing."
Nice huh? A waste storage drawer???
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_toilet
Check it out, that suction thing looks fun, eh guys?
Seriously though, No mention who cleans it, or if stray particles enter the atmosphere of the space ship.... You know shit happens, though.
The part about the waste collection unit has ZERO citations. I could say it is floating all around them ,and it's just as credible as how they are collecting it.
I call shenanigans. We have astronauts in space with terrible living conditions where they have to bag their own waste, and also be exposed to God knows how many airborne microscopic pieces they are inhaling into their lungs and floating through and getting on them. They don't exactly have a shower they can go into everyday to wash themselves properly or the spaceship, which with its millions of gadgets and hoses and bleep blips everywhere must take an eternity....it must be a brutal, hot mess up there.
46 comments
10 Acisionne 2016-12-31
I love this sub!
5 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Yea it's late, having a little fun...ever try to figure out the temperature of space?
This is what they tell kids about it:
"Some parts of space are hot! Gas between stars, as well as the solar wind, both seem to be what we call "empty space," yet they can be more than a thousand degrees, even millions of degrees.
However, there's also what’s known as the cosmic background temperature, which is minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit. So what would a thermometer in space reveal? Somewhere between those extremes — depending on whether it's in the sun or the shade.
Here's what’s going on: Most of the gas in space is too thin to warm anything up. Essentially, there are not enough gas particles to "bump" into and transfer heat to an object. So if you were in space, but shielded from the sun, you would radiate away nearly all your heat pretty quickly and cool to the cosmic background temperature. Step (or float) into the sun, and you’d be warmed. Either way you'd need lots of protection!
At the Earth's distance from the sun, a space thermometer with roughly half its surface is absorbing sunlightwould register 45 degrees Fahrenheit." http://www.space.com/14719-spacekids-temperature-outer-space.html
Yea, 45 degrees. Makes perfect sense, like everything about space. Weird how they always show things freezing when entering the vacuum of space. I call shenanigans in that, too.
1 shmusko01 2016-12-31
Sounds like you don't understand high school level physics
5 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
High school level physics gets into space temperatures and taking a crap in a vacuum? , must of missed that day.
0 shmusko01 2016-12-31
Actually yeah, heat transfer is simple stuff.
6 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
So when an astronaut goes from Sun to shade how does the suit protect from
A. The difference in temperature, solar flair verse shade.
B. The radiation penetrating the body
?
Bonus Health Question,
Can urine accidentally misfired into the urinal vacuum , become displaced and penetrate not only the gadgets all over the place, but also into the respiratory system of the Astronaut. Can a Bathroom Break ultimately become a toxic environment for the entire ship, and how do you contain it?
1 shmusko01 2016-12-31
They have a big suit designed to regulate temperature.
Space is also an excellent insulator.
They have a big suit designed to stop radiation.
The radiation it doesn't they just avoid.
As likely as any liquid floating around the cabin
As likely as inhaling any other liquid
Jeez it's like you just woke up one day, thought about these and then decided upon your conclusion without even a second of reading
5 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
I would of failed you for those answers. They are vague and meaningless and you are being condescending. Did you graduate? Or just angry tonight?
1 chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
Nah, they're just full of shit.
1 shmusko01 2016-12-31
Not my problem you lack basic logic skills
1 chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
Sure, guy. Whatever you say.
1 shmusko01 2016-12-31
Vague and meaningless?
The concept of insulation isn't very advanced
1 NoNameForSteve 2016-12-31
ELI5?
3 Rockran 2016-12-31
Were you expecting 5 star service on a space ship with flushable dunny and a spa?
The thing is made to work, not to be comfortable.
2 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Hi rockran. Have you been up there?
0 Rockran 2016-12-31
Nah.
2 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Wouldn't like the smell of putting your own waste in a drawer?
4 Rockran 2016-12-31
Yeah i'm sure some smells are going to turn someone off from going into space.
Be no different than cracking a fart in the shower. Doesn't mean i'm gonna jump out mid-wash.
2 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Rockran, at least you can jump out. This is more like being encased in your shower along with every fart you ever made in the shower. You have a fart fan, but it just comes right back into the shower so it's like having stale farts over fresh ones over and over. And yes, when you crap into that tiny rice cooker of a toilet you are going to miss, especially because you are eating space food for months on end. Locked in your own miserable ecosystem of tiny urine and fecal particles floating everywhere and a drawer of death where you store bags of crap. For the love of God.
0 Rockran 2016-12-31
And yet I choose not to.
In the immortal words of Rocco Siffedi - It's only smells
I really can't tell if you're serious or not, but you seem really insistent on this idea that a space toilet is going to be a major barrier for potential astronauts.
3 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
I'm saying space isn't practical because it's a toxic atmosphere. Putting a bunch of dudes in a tightly enclosed place , in a vacuum no less, will never be possible from a health standpoint. I don't think you get that if even one astronaut accidentally slips, mind you ,you are in space with little control of your movement already and you all of a sudden got a take a crapp, and it's a bad one, let's say it splashes, I don't think you get that it will disperse into a million fragments depending on trajectory and force. Remember, you are up there for months, it's gonna happen, multiply that by how many times you got to piss in the morning and miss, throughout the day, and multiply that by how many people are on the ship.
Can you possibly contain this health issue? Look at the iss, what, four or five people up there? Someone is always in there pissing or shitting in that tiny space they have. It's bullshit. I call bullshit.
2 Rockran 2016-12-31
What am I doing in this thread...
POO IN LOO
Not that hard.
Of all the things that can go wrong in space, I think poo not going in loo is pretty low on the danger list.
3 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Then I urge you to spend 3-6 months pooping in a vacuum. If you can't see how obviously you are being had , and just by something So simple as a natural function can show you it Can't be done.
But I encourage you to have this experience. Let me know how long you could endure being saturated in filth ,locked up, with always the fear your going to get shit everywhere, or hope no one is in the bathroom when you have to use it, Or be seen manually twisting the bag of poo while your ass flakes are floating into your lungs. Why are you here is right. You need to realize it's a sham. But you don't believe shit itself could debunk NASA.
3 Rockran 2016-12-31
Why can't it be done?
You send me to space and i'll play ping-pong with turds all day long. Don't care, i'm in fucking space!
1 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Really, if that's how you feel. It seems like this great adventure to go to space, but in reality you would be crying for a diaper. Day 60 after no running water and fresh air your hair would be matted with fecal matter. Everything would taste like a metallic turd. The dude next to you would be emanating a type of b.o. and shit mixture odor, and you would of noticed earlier when he brushed his teeth his plaque was being sprayed everywhere. Oh and the new.Russian guy threw up when he got there and missed the barf bag so now the whole fucking place is full of shit and barf. The dirty laundry smells so bad like sweaty garlic , from having to work out everyday.. I'm trying to create a smell for you Rockran, so foul no one in their right mind would ever survive more than thirty days before they snapped.
3 Rockran 2016-12-31
Yet that doesn't match with what we actually see on the ISS.
Guess you're wrong then.
1 chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
BECAUSE IT'S ALL FAKE. YOU'VE BEEN HAD!
1 Rockran 2016-12-31
Considering you can, and I have, see the ISS with the naked eye...
Seems pretty real to me.
1 chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
How does it stay floating up there?
1 Rockran 2016-12-31
By being in orbit.
n/a chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
Hahaha. Ok, care to explain any further? Seems pretty vague.
n/a Rockran 2016-12-31
Do you understand how orbiting works? Like how the moon stays up there and doesn't crash into earth?
n/a chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
No, that's why I'm asking you to explain. Since you've taken it upon yourself to keep up the lie. Please tell me how orbiting works.
n/a Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Yea because they couldn't possibly be faking it. Enough of this shit Rockran, happy New year.
n/a Rockran 2016-12-31
Why would they need to fake footage of the iss when you can see it with the naked eye in the sky as it orbits by?
So it's clearly up there.
n/a Beneficial1 2016-12-31
It's just a shell. A prop. And what you see footage of, is fake astronauts in a zero g high altitude maneuver. Hence interviews are short and they are always bobbing up and down.
Notice how they are always perfectly groomed? Where is all the hair go when they shave? Add that to the crap floating around. But take a look at the interviews and see for yourself how they are bobbing up and down. And notice the ones with the females how their hair is sprayed into looking like it's floating upwards. Some of the interviews are also done with them hanging upside down in a Earth gravity. Rockran, you have been had. It's cool though I was thinking like you once.
1 chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
You do make a great point. Some of these people be up there for a year. How tf do you wash yourself in space?
2 Rockran 2016-12-31
Wet towel
3 metalblueroad 2016-12-31
Sign me up for the mission to Mars! This toilet revelation makes the trip sound AWESOME! Hope no one drops their poo bag...
1 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Lol,, I know, doesn't space seem totally disgusting? At least our polluted air on earth doesn't make us all want to vomit.
2 Putin_loves_cats 2016-12-31
NASA == Bunch of NAZIS.. Curious.. NASA == Never A Straight Answer. Someone, musically inclined should make a tune about the Van Allen Belts, in the tune of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uiYp8xKjLM. I'd ask one user who used to be here, but they were banned :( . You see this, and I know you know who you are when I say it. Your 1950's inspired music videos were top notch :). Doooo it!.
2 NoNameForSteve 2016-12-31
Yeah and all of this in front of expensive equipment... you know, the stuff that's keeping them floating in orbit and not crashing down to Earth.
They're all up having a good time, like it's business as usual!
Oh and don't get started down the rabbit hole how they have figured out C02 recycling on such a grand scale, with plenty of room to spare for science equipment and living quarters, food storage, well it's a science lab, it's massive right? Surely they will implement that technology down on Earth so we won't suffer more climate changes...........
n/a Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Yeah, What happens when they sneeze? Brush their hair? When eating and you wipe your face and food particles get everwhere, once those particles smear on a napkin and dry, they would enter the air, and be floating around. Every dust , hair, food, bodily fluid and waste, sweat, and liquid particles you can think of would be everywhere without gravity.
every time you go to use the restroom, or use a towel, everything has all these particles that in the vacuum of space would be floating everywhere. Plus there is no gravity so doing things are that much more difficult. There is no safe way to take a crap in a vacuum and contain every fecal particle. It's obvious it's all a lie. Just them doing segments on high altitude aircraft. If you look at them sometimes it looks like they are hanging upside down to imitate gravity. It's the biggest hoax.
1 Sarcasticus 2016-12-31
Of all the shady shit NASA does, you're arguing about the functions of a space toilet?
-3 NecrosedVales 2016-12-31
The earth is flat, NASA/astronauts/spaceships etc are all a conjob developed to steal money and control the narrative of our existence.
1 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
The earth is magically geo-energetic
http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/coordinatepoints.html
5 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
Yea it's late, having a little fun...ever try to figure out the temperature of space?
This is what they tell kids about it:
"Some parts of space are hot! Gas between stars, as well as the solar wind, both seem to be what we call "empty space," yet they can be more than a thousand degrees, even millions of degrees.
However, there's also what’s known as the cosmic background temperature, which is minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit. So what would a thermometer in space reveal? Somewhere between those extremes — depending on whether it's in the sun or the shade.
Here's what’s going on: Most of the gas in space is too thin to warm anything up. Essentially, there are not enough gas particles to "bump" into and transfer heat to an object. So if you were in space, but shielded from the sun, you would radiate away nearly all your heat pretty quickly and cool to the cosmic background temperature. Step (or float) into the sun, and you’d be warmed. Either way you'd need lots of protection!
At the Earth's distance from the sun, a space thermometer with roughly half its surface is absorbing sunlightwould register 45 degrees Fahrenheit." http://www.space.com/14719-spacekids-temperature-outer-space.html
Yea, 45 degrees. Makes perfect sense, like everything about space. Weird how they always show things freezing when entering the vacuum of space. I call shenanigans in that, too.
5 Beneficial1 2016-12-31
High school level physics gets into space temperatures and taking a crap in a vacuum? , must of missed that day.
1 chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
How does it stay floating up there?
1 Rockran 2016-12-31
By being in orbit.
n/a chickenshitmchammers 2016-12-31
Hahaha. Ok, care to explain any further? Seems pretty vague.