Apple News links to an article at Futurism.com concerning an issue seldom discussed. Namely, relieving oneself in space, in free fall. It turns out we humans are very reliant on gravity to take various bodily wastes away from our bodies.
Futurism chronicles the problems astronauts and space tourists have had with waste elimination.
Never forget, for instance, a noisesome incident during the 1969 Apollo 10 mission, when the crew were forced to contend with a horrible situation extremely far from Earth.
"Give me a napkin quick," commander Tom Stafford said, according to the official NASA transcript. "There's a turd floating through the air."
I'm reminded of sometime astronaut Howard Wolowitz, fictional engineer/inventor of the space toilet, who tried a pre-lauch test on earth using his mother's brisket, It deposited said brisket on the ceiling.
Is life imitating art, or vice versa?
