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Story regarding the Chinese Taikonauts:
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"State media have provided so much detail about the mission, regarded by most Chinese as a matter of national pride and prestige, that the entire world knows that Mr Nie and Mr Fei are to test China’s new space lavatory technology, which uses a plastic hose and air pump to keep all waste, including potentially dangerous flatulence, in a sealed container."</font>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1824849,00.html
"potentially dangerous flatulence..."
???? I don't recall NASA ever mentioning this. Exactly what do they mean?
Ian B
10-14-2005, 10:57 AM
They're concerned about incoming assteroids?
Ian
madman
10-14-2005, 10:58 AM
Evan **** in the eye in a weightless enviroment is no crying matter. Matter of fact **** stinks and belongs in the correct storage container. The chinese **** sucker is a great invention for there country and should be shared with the world.
3 Phase Lightbulb
10-14-2005, 11:02 AM
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evan:
"potentially dangerous flatulence..."
???? I don't recall NASA ever mentioning this. Exactly what do they mean?</font>
If I ate Chinese food every day, I would have fatal flatulence.
Wirecutter
10-14-2005, 11:02 AM
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by madman:
The chinese **** sucker is a great invention for their country and should be shared with the world.</font>
We've already got them, but we call them politicians.
MikeHenry
10-14-2005, 07:39 PM
A 6-month stint working in Hong Kong at a plant start-up about 10 years ago had me thoroughly disgusted at what the laborors there considered to be acceptable porta-john hygiene.
Sounds like that part of the world has made some improvements in this area.
Mike
ibewgypsie
10-14-2005, 08:12 PM
Steel mill job Cartersville Ga, I opened the outhouse door, (port a let) saw the turds piled at least 8" above the seat with Corn in the crowning logger about a foot long.
On the way back by the Steward I made mention that outhouses get burned that don't get cleaned and looked him right in the eye. I was wobbling toward another on the other side of the job. It was pumped within the hour.
I don't think the chinese have a thing on americans in port a johns.
I have opened the door to see wharf rats run out as large as possums. I don't go after dark without a light, I ain't sittin on no wharf rat as big as a football. He might think, hmm tenders..
AND THEN, Catfish, on the same job.. he run to the outhouse, unbuckled his pants, whirled around as he opened the door and sprayed the whole inside with diahrhea.. It was on the roof.. I asked him later what would he have done if someone had been sitting in there.. he said, we'll I'd said "sorry" and walked off. I LOCK THE DOOR, suggest you do too.
David http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net//biggrin.gif
hoffman
10-14-2005, 08:19 PM
"China’s new space lavatory technology, which uses a plastic hose and air pump to keep all waste, including potentially dangerous flatulence, in a sealed container.""
It's a Harbour Freight shop vac taped to the inside of the capsule http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net//biggrin.gif
darryl
10-14-2005, 09:54 PM
'potentially dangerous flatulence'- I think it's the pressure inside the capsule they're worried about. I wonder if they pressure tested it before sending men into space inside it-
Either that or the switches they use are not rated for use in explosive atmospheres. http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net//smile.gif
madman
10-14-2005, 10:18 PM
Well i guess i shoulda taken a photo of bills ****ter up north. You had to see it to believe it. Anyhow mom didnt raise a squeamish kid so i crapped in it every day. The **** was damn near up to the bottom of the lid. Lucky im a skinny 245 lbs or my ass woulda been draggin in the ****, Hah my nephew thought it was great and i didnt really give a ****. Some people are more prissy than others. Suks to be them. Used to go out in minus 35 degrees with my coleman lantern(for heat and light 3 in morning) and my winchester full choke shotgun in case of varmints. Bears occasionally hang round ****ters up north, Had the doors gnawed torn right off a few times. We had bear in camp three times this year. I beaned one right in the head hard as i could throw a bottle of moosehead beer. He growled ran up a tree we got cocky started pelting beer bottles at him till he came running down that tree snappin ang huffin., Then we laughed while runnin like hell towards the trucks and camper. Boy was he pissed. We were packin but never shoot critters. They got it tough enough I did take a picture of its ass as it was facing the other way as i was cowering inside my flimsy pickup camper having another beer.. Oh well Take care
BillH
10-14-2005, 10:43 PM
You have a very fitting screen name.
Leigh
10-15-2005, 12:14 AM
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evan:
"potentially dangerous flatulence..."</font>
Consider the implications in a space suit in zero Gee http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net//eek.gif Gives a whole new meaning to jet propulsion.
NASA never considered it because they're so close to DC that they consider it normal.
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Leigh W3NLB
[This message has been edited by Leigh (edited 10-15-2005).]
I think they are referring to the possible introduction of methane gas into a high oxygen content atmosphere. Click on the photo for more details:
http://home.satx.rr.com/maylay/fart.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighting_farts)
Nah, they use normal nitrogen/oxygen mix at standard pressure.
You're right, Apollo 1 ended the high oxygen (or even pure oxygen in that case) atmosphere. Still a fire hazard in normal atmosphere though.
Your Old Dog
10-15-2005, 08:10 AM
I think you'll one day find this was a plot American operatives to strategicly leak to the Chinese. A plan no doubt hatched by the Bush/Rowe team to dis-credit the Chinese. Now, which news organization will be the first to carry the story?
Mcostello
10-15-2005, 06:58 PM
Guy I used to work with had kin that lives 1 hour off of a paved road in Kentucky. He came back from one of the 3 day holidays and said he was using the outhouse he alsays used since he was a kid, always had a wooden box in it to rest your feet on. He looked in the box and it was full of old dynamite! He said he had nooooooooo trouble going right then. They used it to blow off a flat spot big enough to put a house on, on the side of a hill. No front porch, back porch, garden or anything else. Had to rent an electric jack hammer to cut a groove big enough to put downspout and gutter on back of house.
Boomer
10-15-2005, 07:23 PM
Read a book by one of the Apollo astronauts years ago and he mentioned a problem they had on the way to the moon due to drinking the water produced by the fuel cells. Seems it had a fair amount of hydrogen dissolved in it and caused unusually gross flatuance.
Bruce
Maybe it's one of those times where you're not 100% sure it's a fart versus something more. http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net//eek.gif
Your Old Dog
10-15-2005, 07:51 PM
No kidding here.
An overweight guy died from methane poisening, his own. Seems he slept in a tiny bedroom with the door shut. This story was reported maybe two years ago.
So he's standing outside St. Peter's gate. What the hell does he tell'em?
He says "go visit snopes.com".
http://www.snopes.com/humor/follies/methane.asp
Rustybolt
10-16-2005, 07:44 AM
The two words you don't want to hear on the space station. " What monkeys?"
Swarf&Sparks
10-17-2005, 09:37 AM
Hence the saying "as welcome as a fart in a space-suit" http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net//biggrin.gif