Re: ISS needs RotoRooter

Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Question of the week...if they crap in the baggies and seal them, I
assume they are airtight.
So what's to stop the bacteria in the bolus* from producing gas and
causing the bag to swell up and explode?

If the baggies are reasonably close to the Apollo era ones - they
contain an antiseptic to deal with said bacteria.

D.
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