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azalemethyesterday at 10:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

Toileting is really fecking important. As someone with a spinal injury you really don't realise just how important until it goes wrong.

Apparently one of the down sides about the previous system was that the separation of solid and liquid excreta ideally required someone to separate their excretion of both kinds. Apparently this is something that male astronauts found much much easier than female ones. Artemis's toilet can handle both at the same time.

I still think they have the good old fashioned Maximum Absorbency Garment for space walks though. (CF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Absorbency_Garment)


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asdfftoday at 1:41 AM

Centrifuge would separate that stool and urine

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ameliusyesterday at 10:23 PM

> separation of solid and liquid excreta

this invention might be of use in livestock farming.

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