Keen political insight on FR: "Obummer would craps his pants just putting on astronaut underwear"

The thread: "First moonwalker blasts Obama’s space plan-Neil Armstrong says rocket cancellation is ‘devastating’"

The reply:

if a kid threw a "Snap-n-pop" near him ...

You are so right. :rofl:

How do they "go", exactly?

Stupid ass FReepers.

While urine was collected by a condom-like device attached to the suit's collection system, there was no provision for defecation. The final mission, A.17, had the most time on the surface and the surface team was provided adult diapers. They refused to wear them. What they did was eat "low residue" meals that made bowel movements infrequent. When they did need to go, an astronaut litterally taped a plastic bag to his ass. After cleaning up with sanitary wipes and sealing the bag, the astronaut had the unpleasant task of breaking open a disinfectant capsule inside the bag and kneeding it into the turds. In the command module, the lack of gravity made fecal collection difficult because it would not simply fall in. It was easier on the lunar surface, except that there was less room in the lander and there was no hot water for hand-washing.

On the space shuttle and the ISS, astronauts use specialized vaccuum-assisted toilets. AFAIK, the EVA suits are still not equiped with fecal containment.

Thank You.

I'm thinking wouldn't it be easier (or more convenient) to create some kind of vacuum lock system for shooting the shits out into space?

Back up to the ass dock, do your business, close the door, and the other side opens up and jettisons the offerings off into the wild black yonder, perhaps to burn up like little meteorites in the atmosphere if they fall back to earth.

Or maybe there's some good reason why that wouldn't work, or they couldn't find some other similar solution... :shrug:


In any event, I can see why pooting in space is so unpleasant.

Probably because intellectually they are infantile.

:)

:spray:

bucket optional......

sent to Viet Nam. AND GOT AWAY WITH IT. AND HAD IT DELETED FROM ALL HIS RECORDS. GEE GEE GEEE. Do they think we conveniently forget like the do???????? To bad they won't allow rebuttal.

Just one sentence..."Gee we remember bush jr and Viet Nam."

What have we learned from going to the moon that is worth the US continuing to spend $$$$'s to go there?


GW took us to the moon everyday just by his presense here on earth.

:shrug:

Google is your friend, you might try looking up the technology advancements that have come out of the space program.

Whether that was worth the expense of sending a handful of guys there is a judgment call. It was VERY expensive.

"Space exploration is not a drain on the economy; it generates infinitely more than wealth than it spends. Royalties on NASA patents and licenses currently go directly to the U.S. Treasury, not back to NASA." - Joan Vernikos, a member of the Space Studies Board of the National Academy

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/is-space-exploration-worth-the-cost-a-freakonomics-quorum/

Does anyone know how to do that?