The finger cot is there because zero G and dehydration commonly result in constipation.
adhesive tape to the buttocks
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 months 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 2 months ago
Exactly what I came to the comments to find out. Thank you random stranger
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months 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 month 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 month ago
See this is the kind of shit I want to hear about in the documentaries.
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 months ago
So basically spooning the turd out? That’s the Corvette driving american heros I know and love 😘
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How do they do it in your country?
neatobuilds@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Is it like force puking by poking the uvula but butt uvula
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I curse the day nature evolved eyes
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
you mean the prostate?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“Stop using the bag, we haven’t even started the countdown.”
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month 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 month ago
“Sir, stop using the bag. You’re not even an astronaut. how did you even get into this building?”
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 months ago
GluWu@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The finger cot is there because space is super fucking boring
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
New fear unlocked, diarrhea in space.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Space-Lax 2 - Projectile Boogaloo
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 month 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 2 months ago
Where is the spatula hole?
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Adhesive tape to the buttocks is exactly what got the Jock in Saturday morning detention.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
👆
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I hope the vomit bag and poop bag are properly labeled and kept apart from each other.
somethingp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I assumed they’re not reusing bags, but I guess I’m not sure
philpo@feddit.org 1 month ago
Tbf, not that different from an stoma bag
RazzleDazzle@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 2 months 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 month 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.
mkwt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I am well aware that Apollo 10 did not deliver shitbags to the moon.
But 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 did, if they defecated at all on the moon, leave it behind per checklist. There are 96 inventoried bags on the moon, but it is not recorded which, if any, are filled with what. It would have been easier to avoid on the earlier missions, which spent less time on the surface.
At least one astronaut claims he avoided a bowel movement for the entire mission duration.