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Space station struggles with balky toilet- msnbc.com: Just days before the planned delivery of the international space stations largest laboratory, its crew is facing a much more down-to-Earth problem: a stopped-up toilet.
This is no laughing matter. The outposts long-term hygiene and routine comfort are now threatened, unless critical spare parts can be identified, found and loaded aboard the space shuttle Discovery as it sits on the launch pad in Florida.
This isn’t the fist time we have covered the Space Toilet in the blog. You can see a video of the toilet in question here, which should help our readers understand the situation that the space station astronauts are facing at the moment.
ONLY solution to Space Toilets problem – Send ROBOTS into space – they don’t need toilets !!! They also don’t get space sick, need vacations, rotations home, food, etc …. Send a MACHINE TO DO THE JOB – AND FOR ***WAY LESS MONEY*** !!!
haves and have nots. sheesh.
Robots can do it better, yep. So why don’t you off yourself and stop consuming resources. I’m sure a robot can do your job better too.
Why don’t we send Hillary and she can suck the shit out of the hose?
You mean… they have just the one for the whole station? A major life-support function with no redundancy? You gotta be kidding…
#5, well, maybe not, remember that the Space Station components are built by the lowest bidding contractor.
Isn’t the shit supposed to hit the fan in a space toilet?
>>Why don’t we send Hillary and she can suck
>>the shit out of the hose?
Better we should send Dumbya. He used up any potential usefulness he had back in about 1961, and he has a far greater appetite for shit than anyone on earch. Finally, something he can do!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Trip to Mars and back, anyone?
This may lead to the EVACUATION of the ISS…
#1 I’m glad you’re not making the decisions. Maybe you think we should piss away tax dollars on welfare for shit heads that refuse to work or single mothers that refuse to stop having babies because they can’t keep their legs closed. Yeah, that would be a much better use of tax dollars. The best part of manned space travel will be eventually we will be able to move off this planet and leave all the useless shit head here to kill each other.
Hey, Stinker !!! “Robots can do it better, yep. So why don’t you off yourself and stop consuming resources. I’m sure a robot can do your job better too.”
I’m not WHINING FOR SOMEBODY TO PAY MY WAY INTO SPACE AND THEN PISSING AND MOANING ABOUT THE FACILITIES !!! I’m just pointing out that there are other ways of doing things in space then sending fragile and limited humans where they shouldn’t go !!!
Now we know how the Astronauts go to the bathroom in space – with GREAT DIFFICULTY !!! I guess we need to FLUSH THE ISS altogether !!!
Stories like this make me realize the odds of humans going to Mars in the next 50 years are very slim.
hhmmm should have had a picture of Richard Benjamin from Quark, where are the space baggies when you need them???
#8
No he would just be added to the waste tank that will be eventually ejected and burned up in the atmosphere. A lot like we will do to him after this election is over, and swear in a new prez next January.
WE PAID HOW MUCH??
For a toilet that WOULDNT BREAK??
and it BROKE??
ARE THE PARTS Modular, so they can be repaired EASY??
replacement parts on the way??
Time to break out the emergency DIAPERS??
“$19 million funneled into space toilet” !!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19623499/
Makes the $700 heated toilet seat cover for the Air Farce seem like a BARGAIN !!!
From the great parody “Star Drek”
Scotty: “Captain! Captain! The toilets have backed up into the Warp Drive!”
Hide the Tacos.
Ah yes, toilet humor, literally. Hey, this is tricky business. Its technical, so lets have some respect for the engineers that had to design this thing. Any of you want to take a crap while standing on your head to test one here on earth?
Bk.