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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago (3 children)

if they had shared their output with each other, would that make it split pee soup?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Take your upvote and get out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I have never been so simultaneously disappointed and proud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Arrgh, go forth and help the homeless or something, do penance.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That's how water recycling works on the ISS, and it's not specific to those two astronauts. Pretty similar to how water recycling works down on Earth too.

Also, the Crew-9 capsule launched with two empty seats, so they aren't even stranded ~~anymore~~.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We're all drinking dinosaur pee down here

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And trilobite pee. And Shark pee. And woolly mammoth pee. And each other's pee.

It's pee all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We're all just bags of wee experiencing being with the illusion of individuality.

I is wee and wee is power

May piece wee in your hearts and Orishas lead your wee.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They were never stranded. This is just bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good point. Starliner was always the plan in the event of an emergency evacuation, and there was also "lie on the floor of the Crew-8 Dragon" as a backup for the brief period between empty the Starliner return and the launch of Crew-9.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really? Le big bags of wee can travel back to Earth on the deck in an emergency? What about the g forces? I thought the 'nauts needed custom molded seats to help distribute the force over the lungs, cardiovascular, etc. so they don't pass out as easily. Seriously, can I have the sauce?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I suppose "lie on the floor" was a bit of an exaggeration. It likely would have involved the transfer of the seats, or at least the seat liners, from Starliner.

NASA didn't release much info on the contingency plans, but there was brief mention of it in an ARS Technica article a while back: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/yes-nasa-really-could-bring-starliners-astronauts-back-on-crew-dragon/

NASA issued a $266,678 task award to SpaceX on July 14 for a "special study for emergency response." NASA said this study was not directly related to Starliner's problems, but two sources told Ars it really was. Although the study entailed work on flying more than four crew members home on Crew Dragon—a scenario related to Frank Rubio and the Soyuz MS-22 leaks—it also allowed SpaceX to study flying Dragon home with six passengers, a regular crew complement in addition to Wilmore and Williams.

In my opinion, the biggest risk unmitigatable risk would have been the lack of ports in Dragon for Butch and Suni to plug their Starliner IVA suits into.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think NASA released a photo of the makeshift seats. Probably around the time they were dismantled, after Crew-9 had arrived. Can't find it though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Can’t find it though.

Those 4 little words haunted me.

I've been searching non-stop this whole time, every waking hour ;) And I've finally found it! At last my life can get back to normal ;)

https://www.youtube.com/live/rJghQoIyH8Y?t=21m14s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, ok, big canisters of air mix to secure them (with coated cable ties?) next to the improvised seats and all linked to the state of the art Boeing made suits, so they can breathe, at least. Perfection. XD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't remember NASA mentioning anything like that - either at the briefing I've just come across, or any other time they've talked about it.

So my guess is that they didn't bother. Just hoping that whatever could cause the crew to have to return to Earth in a hurry wouldn't also cause any problems with the cabin air in Dragon. (Problems like ... there not being any! Or it being filled with smoke, or ammonia.)

Perhaps they would've gone with your plan if they'd had all the necessary equipment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone know what the efficiency is on those water recyclers? Would love to see the specs, but I’m not having any luck finding it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you! May your casserole be evenly rehydrated.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's the difference between roast beef and pee soup?

Anybody can roast beef, but nobody can- wait a minute...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Difference between a chickpea and a garbonzo bean.

I've never paid $200 to have a garbonzo bean on my face.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Strict hydration schedule for you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that that "Bear Grill" guy?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, aka the: I drank my own pee and slept in a hotel 'adventurer'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

At that point it's just a fetish