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Java_Bob · 07-06-2007, 02:15 PM

and here it is...

***MSYoung*** · 07-06-2007, 02:48 PM

Looks like it has a remote control.

Java_Bob · 07-06-2007, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by MSYoung

Looks like it has a remote control.

of course it does for 19 MIL

Java_Bob · 07-06-2007, 02:59 PM

NASA has agreed to pay $19 million for a Russian-built toilet system for the international space station. NASA says it would cost even more to build its own system, plus astronauts already use a similar one at the space station.

The space station toilet physically resembles those used on Earth, except it has leg restraints and thigh bars to keep astronauts and cosmonauts in place. Fans suck waste into the commode.

Crew members also have individual urine funnels which are attached to hoses, and the urine is deposited into a wastewater tank. The new system will be able to transfer urine to a device that can produce drinking water.

Rachelle · 07-06-2007, 03:07 PM

That is one piece of equipment that you don't want them to cut costs on. Could you imagine if 'things' did not get manually pulled where they needed to go???? Eeew!!

rlc

monkeylizard · 07-06-2007, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Java_Bob

The new system will be able to transfer urine to a device that can produce drinking water.

Reason # 1,325 to stay on planet Earth.

***JulianW*** · 07-09-2007, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by monkeylizard

Reason # 1,325 to stay on planet Earth.

I'll second that. I'm sure it's clean and safe but the very thought of it just dosen't compute.

***MSYoung*** · 07-09-2007, 12:40 PM

Most city water systems remove more than just urine from the water they reclaim. And that water goes back into the city water supply.

***papa-bear*** · 07-09-2007, 12:54 PM

They are installing automated public toilets up here at $40,000 a crack. A far cry from the cost of the space toilet but still possibly a waste of $$ in the long run.

http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyc...uments/a10.pdf

monkeylizard · 07-09-2007, 02:02 PM

I remember reading (possibly on here somewhere) that somebody (France comes to mind) was changing all of the lightbulbs in their automated public toilets to blue. The junkies were using the toilets to shoot up. Blue lights make it very hard to find veins.

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