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In Space Everyone Can Hear You Poop

posted by n1 on Sunday May 17 2015, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the zero-gravity-thunderbuckets dept.

cmn32480 writes:

In a not so serious interview (video) from the International Space Station on space.com, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti gives a sit through of how to use the most private of facilities on the ISS.

The biggest complaint from the folks on the ISS is that the fan used for sucking the poo and the pee into the containers provided is too loud, and everybody knows when you are going.

Howard Wolowicz would be proud.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Sunday May 17 2015, @08:25PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Sunday May 17 2015, @08:25PM (#184178)

    psychology matters just as much as physiology and this seems like something NASA could actually figure out and fix. after all, sound is just a compression wave, so it can be cancelled out or absorbed.

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