More than half way to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts are grappling with a toilet problem

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Elon's mission now is to build a robot that goes "peep" and "poop."

In an ideal world, it would only happen *before* they fix the toilet lines, would *never* happen after the lines have been fixed.

Yeah, liquid water boils when the vapor pressure equals the surrounding pressure. And if the surrounding pressure is the perfect vacuum of space, it essentially flash-boils. *Any* energy it has is enough to boil. Somewhat counterintuitively, this also freezes the remaining water at some point. Because all that evaporation steals heat from the liquid and lowers the temperature. So if you expose room-temp water to space you should get a whole lot of vapor really quickly and be left with a small amount of very cold ice. At least that’s my understanding.

somewhere, at some point, at some time, someone or some thing is going to be driving their space ship and get splashed with frozen piss on their viewport

Really that’s the only thing keeping me from being an astronaut.

It’s already separate devices. Pee goes in a hose you need to hold up against/inside. Solid waste goes via a toilet. Both use some level of suction to move the waste.

I’ve watched too much Star Trek. That almost made sense….

What if they use the holochamber to recreate a positronic brain that can be rerouted to main engineering so it can recalibrate the heisenburg compensators to the warp core frequency and then channel a high energy gamma ray burst along the phaser arrays, to invert the deflector?

We at least know what a very large percent of one individuals samples will be... since buzz ate 19 bowls of oatmeal

Reads like a Doctor Who plot lmao

Or they use the poop to clone a super Buzz Aldrin as their last chance to stop the alien invasion. Turns out the aliens are moon landing deniers, and he fuckin HATES that shit.

Alien space explorers discover bags of food left behind by earthlings

Fun fact. Humans have been exposed to PFAS and microplastics for so long there is no longer available baselines to test against, any sample you take from any human on the globe will be contaminated. Old poop left on the moon might actually be useful someday.

It is difficult to say since we haven't actually run the experiments but the limited genetic materials present in feces would certainly be damaged quickly.

> I smell a moon horror script *cocks gun* poop's haunted

The poop was mixed with disinfectant so there wouldn't be bacterial gas buildup, that plus radiation plus the temperature extremes on the moon probably guarantees that any fecal matter was rendered sterile decades ago.

How do you know you won't blow up the moon?

Shhh, humans get upset when ya remind them that they're animals.

Unfortunately, I understood this

Floating shit is a vibe

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Yeah I'm currently watching and it took me by total surprise. It makes sense but it's surreal to actually think about

Haha yeah, I mean…nobody wants to go down in history as the guy that pooped the spaceship.

Toilets surprisingly break often when they're one off rube Goldberg machines designed to fit in a strangely contorted position, because, in theory, it's one of the least important devices around, and have to work without the assistance of gravity

I’d be surprised is they *didnt* have poop bags as a backup. They almost certainly do.