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From: Peter.Su%CMU-CS-GANDALF@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: space toilets
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Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 09:53:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 09:53:45 1984
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Here's a post that is not mine:

Date: 3 Sep 84 19:17:46 EDT
From: DR1K@CMU-CC-TF
To: hugo@CMU-CS-GANDALF
Subject: Space Toilets



Thought you all might be interested in this, from Ben Bova's introduction
to _Callahan's Crosstime Saloon_, by Spider Robinson...

"I remember getting a newspaper cliping from Spider which showed a NASA
drawing of the design for a toilet to be used under zero-gravity
conditions in the Skylab satellite.  (NASA has problems that thee and me
can't even guess at.)  The cutaway drawing of this engineering marvel
showed that there was a rotating blade inside the toilet bowl, to 
'seperate the liquid from the solid wastes,' as NASA's engineers 
euphemistically put it.

"Spider, in his scrawly handwriting, had scribbled across the top of
the cliping a brief note, followed by an arrow that pointed unerringly
to the bowl and the seperator blade. The note said, 'Ben: Near as I
can figure it, the shit is supposed to hit the fan...'"

Dave Lewis
dl02@cmu-cc-td
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				Bye,
				Pete