Re: ISS needs RotoRooter

On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:01:02 -0700, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary
Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

By whom, she asks as she looks about casually.

....Brad Guth, naturally. I mean, after all, he's a...no, wait. We went
through this once before. I know better now, age + wisdom and all that
:-)

("Or was that thrice burned in one shot?" - Pat)

It's my understanding that they don't do that in orbit. It's easily
avoided, after all.

....In one of my Health & Hygene classes in high school - circa 1979 -
the discussion of bodily excretions and how to handle difficult
situations came up. *Somehow* - and I had nothing to do with it,
honest! - the issue of doing normal bodily functions in Zero-G came
up. Since I was the known expert on All Things Space ever since 1st
grade, I got called on to provide the answer. Almost immediately after
that, one of the more obnoxious gals we had - a year behind us, but so
much of a tomboy that everyone was surprised when she got married to a
*guy* shortly after she graduated! - point blank asked how they
handled what I'll refer to as "A visit from Aunt Rose" in space.
Needless to say, I handled that one with the only answer possible at
that time:

"Well, there's only been one female into outer space, and she didn't
stay up long enough to find out, so there really isn't an
answer...yet."

Bullet. Dodged. Whew.

Mary "I thought everyone knew that"

....Hell, there's still people out there that are surprised that ISS
has a toilet! We got the masses so trained in the FCU and UCD methods
that they think they're still using just those :-P


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