Science Memes @mander.xyz fossilesque @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1w ago

adhesive tape to the buttocks

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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:
The finger cot is there because zero G and dehydration commonly result in constipation.
- 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."
- Exactly what I came to the comments to find out. Thank you random stranger
  
  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..."
  
  What is a cot though?
- Actually, it's in there because shit doesn't fall off your ass in 0G. It kinda curls out towards the back if left to dodo its own thing.
  
  See this is the kind of shit I want to hear about in the documentaries.
- So basically spooning the turd out? That's the Corvette driving american heros I know and love 😘
  
  How do they do it in your country?
I'd just hold it until I got back from the moon
- Maybe the impact from landing will just force it out of you like that 1800s invention of putting pregnant women in centrifuges to doing the baby out.
The finger cot is there because space is super fucking boring
"Stop using the bag, we haven't even started the countdown."
- "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."
- "Sir, stop using the bag. You're not even an astronaut. how did you even get into this building?"
- Well, looks like you figured out how to use the finger cot, well done!
  
  Alot of trial and error.
  
  No regrets.
New fear unlocked, diarrhea in space.
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
Where is the spatula hole?

And I assume they had to share the poop knife.
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I hope the vomit bag and poop bag are properly labeled and kept apart from each other.
- I assumed they're not reusing bags, but I guess I'm not sure
Tbf, not that different from an stoma bag
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.

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