The finger cot is there because zero G and dehydration commonly result in constipation.
adhesive tape to the buttocks
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themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
So… they must have trained in using the “finger cot” technique.
“Sorry Biff, you’re a great mission candidate in all other respects, but your finger-cotting just isn’t… uh… cutting the mustard.”
Comrade_Spood@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Exactly what I came to the comments to find out. Thank you random stranger
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The best part of this feature is that it’s clearly a result of iterative design. So engineers were trying to solve constipation, and someone with a PhD was like “Well, you know what works for me…”
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Actually, it’s in there because shit doesn’t fall off your ass in 0G. It kinda curls out towards the back of left to dodo its own thing.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
See this is the kind of shit I want to hear about in the documentaries.
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 day ago
So basically spooning the turd out? That’s the Corvette driving american heros I know and love 😘
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How do they do it in your country?
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Is it like force puking by poking the uvula but butt uvula
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I curse the day nature evolved eyes
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
you mean the prostate?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 day ago
“Stop using the bag, we haven’t even started the countdown.”
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Neil, it’s been eighteen years since you got back from the moon, you really need to stop using the bag and finger cot. We don’t even make these anymore except special order for you.”
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
“Sir, stop using the bag. You’re not even an astronaut. how did you even get into this building?”
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 1 day ago
New fear unlocked, diarrhea in space.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Space-Lax 2 - Projectile Boogaloo
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 day ago
GluWu@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The finger cot is there because space is super fucking boring
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 day ago
NASA really expects you to go man to man with a bag? Im willing to try it but I cant say that I am excited to
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Where is the spatula hole?
philpo@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Tbf, not that different from an stoma bag
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I hope the vomit bag and poop bag are properly labeled and kept apart from each other.
somethingp@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I assumed they’re not reusing bags, but I guess I’m not sure
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
👆
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Adhesive tape to the buttocks is exactly what got the Jock in Saturday morning detention.
RazzleDazzle@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Mary roach did a whole segment on this in her book “packing for Mars”. I can highly recommend both the book and Mary as an author in general.
mkwt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Facts about this:
Bags, with contents, were left on board the lower descent stages of the lunar modules. They remain on the moon to this day.
There was at least one incident on Apollo 10 where feces escaped and was floating around the cabin.
Part of the radio transcript:
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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Apollo 11 was the first moon landing, so if this transcript is really from Apollo 10 the bags of shit are still in the lunar module, which was jettisoned on the way back to Earth. According to Google it’s in a heliocentric orbit, “drifting aimlessly around the solar system.”
Even more details: the abbreviations CMP, LMP and CDR in the transcript mean Command Module Pilot (John Young), Lunar Module Pilot (Gene Cernan), and Commander (Tom Stafford), all now deceased. Young and Cernan each returned to walk on the moon in Apollo 16 and 17.