Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
A Pot To Piss In
The toilet on the International Space Station is broken.
It's interesting to me that a system like that was not engineered to be redundant. Where is the backup plan? The spare parts at least?
On a slightly different note, I own an RV. It would be awful to deal with a broken toilet in the RV - and we could just go outside and find a public restroom - or a tree - if we had to.
This is a classic "we need to learn from this" moment. I mean, it's not like we are going to stop flying into space. It is only going to become more commonplace. A little thought and re-engineering of the freakin' toilet facilities seems to be in order.
Just remember, astronauts: If it's yellow, let it mellow. if it's brown, flush it down.
In spaaaaace!
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They did have spares...
At least according to Thursday's All Things Considered, they had two spares, both of which proved to be defective.
Oops.
Blow it out the airlock.
Blow it out the airlock.
But what if it's...
...kind of an olive green, and clumpy?
Rob Miles
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those who understand binary and those who don't.
TMI
TMI, Rob, TMI.
Get thee to a physician!
Jim Downey
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Gives a whole new meaning
to 'brown bagging' it.
"Constellation Urea"
That humorous bit from Apollo 13 came to mind when I first heard this.
Yeah, big problem. They're reduced to storing urine in bags. Awkward, at best.
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
Well at least there's one backup
Just think of it as a backup water supply Jim. The kind you don't really want to tap into but you're glad to see if the water supply goes too. Plus, the pee that's not going down the toilet probably would have been recycled as water anyway.
Now if they can just extract the ammonia from it you could convert pee into Drinking Water + Fuel. Or maybe they do that already.
I Think They Already Do
I think they already do convert it - at least, I think the technology is available.
On another, related note - eww.
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