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From: jimcat@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Re : whither the water?
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Date: 6 Jan 91 21:31:52 GMT
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In article <6717@crash.cts.com> gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Ken Hollis) writes:
>In article <1990Dec31.204130.2390@morrow.stanford.edu>
>GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.
>edu (Louis J Bookbinder) writes:
>>Does the Shuttle just dump human wastes, or does it filter out the
>>solids?
>
>To "dry" the solids, the commode is depressurized.  To separate the liquids
>from the air, the mixture enters a fan where centrifugal force separates the
>liquid and draws it into a stationary pitot tube in a reservoir.
>
 This is too good. Do you mean to tell me that the sh*t hits the fan? (-:

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