"Strapping Blokes"

[Vernon Gaunt]

G'day

It was confirmed today that NASA will be purchasing a Russian zero gravity toilet to install into their space station. $19,000,000

Goog Grief!!!

Can you imagine it! Being strapped into the dunnie! And there's nothing to say what angle you'll be at! The mind, well my mind, boggles! And all those pumps and suction bits! Looks more like something you'd buy from one of those magazines that hide out on the top shelves. No wonder these guys volunteer!


I can't see the toilet paper can you? Ewwww must be an automatic thing!

I'm awaiting the announcement of the first zero gravity birth in this space station. Oh what fun! NOT!


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b278/velvetgloves/ISS_Toilet_2.jpg

Melony Frontage

[MagicPrincess]

19 million bucks??? Did I read that correctly?? Geez oh pete! Just use the current system and spend that money on something else!

Hmmmm reading this makes me want to go visit NASA. I haven't been in a long long time. In elementary and middle school we used to take field trips there. It's actually pretty cool, wonder how much it's changed.

[Vernon Gaunt]

G'day Magicprincess.

My mind did cartwheels when I read the price of the Russian Dunnie.

We Australians have a rocket site at Woomera. Mind it was used most during the 50's and 60's.

We also invented the first intergalactic toilet.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b278/velvetgloves/folded_up_toilet_pic.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b278/velvetgloves/erected_toilet_pic.jpg

All you had to do was unfold it and then toss it out through the air lock. Mind I don't think the Aussies took weightlessness into account.
But at least it burns up on re-entry.

Melony Frontage.

[scooby]

Well if the base is cardboard - wouldn't it go a bit soggy, when you..... you know..... ? (just thinking out loud!)

[appeace]

I can just imagine the headlines now! American astronaut gets sucked into the loo---never to be seen or heard from aACkkkkk!:p

[Sam]

:eek:If they paid that kind of money for a toilet forget getting sucked into the loo. I just hope they remembered the ky and a smile and to say thank you! Maybe we should contact NASA and ask if they enjoyed that at our expense!!!:eek::o

[Lt.Mac]

Oh the thought of if the gyro got messed up and gravity came on inside the module and you happened to be upside down-- EEEEWWWWWW

[fgh2157]

yes does make the mind boggle the thought of what would happen if the suction stopped and zero g took hold. i am sure we have all seen the pictures of the astronaouts with the floating M&M's. Jsut think about that for a minute with respect to toilets. !!!!!!!!!!!!

So we have had some wonderful things come out of the space race velcro for one thing but i am not sure that anything useful would come from a zero g toilet>> yes yes you can play with those words if you like.

I am rambleing... just for once its not raining so i escaped into the garden only to be laid low with a rotton hay fever attack. So back to the message board !!