What happens when you crap in outer space?

June 13, 2008 by admin | 8 comments

As a kid, I’ve asked myself this question many times: how are space toilets designed so that when you sit down on them for a big job, everything that comes out of your body doesn’t start floating around and basically just creating a big mess? The following video provides the answer, and comes straight from the mouth of a NASA engineer Chris Hadfield, a space shuttle astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency (Thanks d0d0burd!).

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8 Comments »

Comment by web design company
2008-06-13 21:24:59

Do dingleberries dangle in outer space?

 
Comment by Chris Anderson
2008-06-13 22:52:58

brilliant! What happens to those who wish upon one of these “shooting stars”?

Comment by janga
2008-06-14 08:12:30

they will be full of shit.

 
Comment by Jimmy
2008-06-14 18:03:29

no, they dingle

 
 
Comment by d0d0burd
2008-06-14 06:01:16

Colonel Chris Hadfield, a space shuttle astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency.

Not a NASA Engineer.

 
Comment by Kiltak
2008-06-14 09:32:38

Hmmm, an alternate headline could have been:

“Mysterious origin of shooting stars revealed”. :)

 
Comment by Bob Deloyd
2008-06-15 01:59:53

Funny I asked myself the same thing when watching “When We Left Earth”, but it was the Apollo Astronauts who who were sitting in a two man capsule and not something the size of the space shuttle. I mean they were stuck in them spacesuits for up to 14 days! I want to know how they did it!
//bob

 
Comment by squidoo
2008-08-22 22:53:41

Shooting stars, hahaha. Real interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

 
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