Toilet stopped working in space

[shade of dae]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/05/27/space.toilet.ap/index.html

Nasty situation to be in don't you think? I feel really sorry for the guys on the station XD

[Alexander]

They have to use the other 7 years old one.

7 years.

Old.

I'm never going into space until we have the bugs fixed, thank you.

[Maledicte]

I saw headlines about this that said, "In space, no one can hear you flush."

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

"Everything happens for a reason". - lol

[Tsukuyomi]

"Everything happens for a reason". - lol

*Chuckles*

Lawlawlawlawlawl... yeah.. I wonder what that reason may be XDDD;

Nast situation indeed (get it) XDD

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Remove the log from your own toilet, so you can then remove the log in your neighbour's toilet.

[Tsukuyomi]

Remove the log from your own toilet, so you can then remove the log in your neighbour's toilet.

I don't get it, and is not sure I want to xD;

[Maledicte]

Remove the log from your own toilet, so you can then remove the log in your neighbour's toilet.

Oh man. Great one!

[Tsukuyomi]

When I think of "logs" and "toilets".. Never mind, I don't want to think about it o.o;

[Slater]

I believe it's a reference to a passage in Mark...

Splinter-in-eye thing.

Still... gross.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Sorry, that was going a bit far.
Toilet humour is crap, I won't continue to block this thread.

[Kaligraphic]

See, this is what comes of watching too much sci-fi. You know how Babylon 5 had no toilets? Yeah, that doesn't work so well in real life.

We need to flush out that sort of silliness. It wastes our time and resources, and all our careful plans just end up in the crapper.

[AsianBlossom]

*holds nose and falls over*

[Roy Mustang]

We can put a man on the moon, but we can't even get a toilet to work right in space.


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[JesusFreak84]

That's....amusing... XD

[shade of dae]

We can put a man on the moon, but we can't even get a toilet to work right in space.


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Makes you wonder if those guys will petition for more plumbers to be hired by the NASA?

We need to flush out that sort of silliness. It wastes our time and resources, and all our careful plans just end up in the crapper.

Lol, Very funny Kaligraphic.

[Peanut]

We can put a man on the moon, but we can't even get a toilet to work right in space.


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As sad as this fact is...the following information kind of explains why...

While one of the crew was using the Russian-made toilet last week, the toilet motor fan stopped working, according to NASA. Since then, the liquid waste gathering part of the toilet has been working on-and-off.

Fortunately, the solid waste collecting part is functioning normally.

Russian officials don't know the cause of the problem, and the crew has been unable to fix it.

Russia...Russia made the toilet...based off of what I know about Russian history...I'm not surprised the toilet stopped working and I'm not surprised they have no clue how do fix it...(Note to any Russians reading this post: This is not meant to be offensive. I kid only because I love...Russian history is by far the most entertaining thing we learned about in AP Euro and quickly became my favorite topic in that class.)

[KhakiBlueSocks]

[font="Trebuchet MS"][SIZE="4"][color="RoyalBlue"]And this is why your mom always told you to go BEFORE you leave![/color][/SIZE][/font]

[Raiden no Kishi]

[font="Trebuchet MS"][SIZE="4"][color="RoyalBlue"]And this is why your mom always told you to go BEFORE you leave![/color][/SIZE][/font]

/thread

.rai//

[sharien chan]

um...wow. Good job! XD

[Tsukuyomi]

This thread has lots of BLOCKAGE!!!

[Kurama]

Aww man, that stinks. Poor guys. I'd die up there. O_o

[Nate]

Russia...Russia made the toilet...based off of what I know about Russian history...I'm not surprised the toilet stopped working and I'm not surprised they have no clue how do fix it...

Didn't the Russians beat us into space in the mid-20th century?

[Roy Mustang]

Didn't the Russians beat us into space in the mid-20th century?

They did and the Soviet space program pioneered many aspects of space exploration.

* 1957: First intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7 Semyorka
* 1957: First satellite, Sputnik 1
* 1957: First animal to enter Earth orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2
* 1959: First firing of a rocket in Earth orbit, first man-made object to escape Earth's orbit, Luna 1
* 1959: First data communications, or telemetry, to and from outer space, Luna 1.
* 1959: First man-made object to pass near the Moon, first man-made object in Solar orbit, Luna 1
* 1959: First probe to impact the moon, Luna 2
* 1959: First images of the moon's far side, Luna 3
* 1960: First animals to safely return from Earth orbit, the dogs Belka and Strelka on Sputnik 5.
* 1960: First probe launched to Mars, Marsnik 1
* 1961: First probe launched to Venus, Venera 1
* 1961: First person in space (International definition) and in Earth orbit, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, Vostok programme
* 1961: First person to spend over a day in space Gherman Titov, Vostok 2 (also first person to sleep in space).
* 1962: First dual manned spaceflight and approach, Vostok 3 and Vostok 4. While considered by some to be the first space rendezvous, Vostok 3 and 4 were 5 km apart as they passed each other in the closest point in their respective orbits, and the orbits were in different orbital planes. US Gemini 6A/Gemini 7 did the first parallel flight, three years later, however without docking. Actual docking was first done in 1967 by Soviet Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188 and manned docking with exchange of crew was first done by Soviet Soyuz 4/Soyuz 5 (see below).
* 1963: First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6
* 1964: First multi-man crew (3), Voskhod 1
* 1965: First EVA, by Aleksei Leonov, Voskhod 2
* 1965: First probe to hit another planet (Venus), Venera 3
* 1966: First probe to make a soft landing on and transmit from the surface of the moon, Luna 9
* 1966: First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10
* 1967: First unmanned rendezvous and docking, Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188. (Until 2006, this had remained the only major space achievement that the US had not duplicated.)
* 1969: First docking between two manned craft in Earth orbit and exchange of crews, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5
* 1970: First samples automatically returned to Earth from another body, Luna 16
* 1970: First robotic space rover, Lunokhod 1
* 1970: First data received from the surface of another planet (Venus), Venera 7
* 1971: First space station, Salyut 1
* 1971: First probe to orbit another planet (Mars), first probe to reach surface of Mars, Mars 2
* 1975: First probe to orbit Venus, first photos from surface of Venus, Venera 9
* 1984: First woman to walk in space, Svetlana Savitskaya (Salyut 7 space station)
* 1986: First crew to visit two separate space stations (Mir and Salyut 7)
* 1986: First permanently manned space station, Mir, which orbited the Earth from 1986 until 2001
* 1987: First crew to spend over one year in space, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov on board of TM-4 - Mir

And yet, a toilet was their mortal enemy!


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[MBlight]

lol!:lol: excuse me, I need to go to the loo:red:

[Mithrandir]

...Russia made the toilet...based off of what I know about Russian history...I'm not surprised the toilet stopped working and I'm not surprised they have no clue how do fix it...

It has to be said. It's a moral imperative.


In soviet Russia, the toilet has YOU... (Gagging).

[Maledicte]

Anyone else reminded of the zero gravity toilet in 2001: A Space Odyssey?