Weird Science

[The Cat]

This is something I really would love to take off in a bigger way...

[The Cat]

[Peter Deadpan]

@Eryn Silverfrond - An ex-boyfriend and I used to talk about doing this all the time. We also wanted to cultivate mushrooms, and he wanted to purchase property for growing ginseng as an investment (I'm pretty sure it was ginseng).

We were big dreamers and had a lot of fun conversations.

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

[Peter Deadpan]

This is the quality material I am looking for. I am not ashamed to admit that I had a nerdy smile on my face for half of this.

I feel like if we all flushed a gallon of white vinegar down the drain a week, that this problem would be reduced by at least half.

"Tangents" sounds like the title of a heavily Ne podcast.

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

This is the quality material I am looking for. I am not ashamed to admit that I had a nerdy smile on my face for half of this.

I feel like if we all flushed a gallon of white vinegar down the drain a week, that this problem would be reduced by at least half.

"Tangents" sounds like the title of a heavily Ne podcast.

It's just interesting to me that "fat miner" might be a viable career path in the future.

Aw, who am I kidding? Probably only robots will get to be fat miners.

[Peter Deadpan]

It's just interesting to me that "fat miner" might be a viable career path in the future.

Aw, who am I kidding? Probably only robots will get to be fat miners.

Such the pessimist. Aim higher. To the sewer fat!

I believe in you, G.

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Such the pessimist. Aim higher. To the sewer fat!

I believe in you, G.

I'll spread my wings and fly.

Wait, emus can't fly.

[Peter Deadpan]

I'll spread my wings and fly.

Wait, emus can't fly.

Cute.

[SD45T-2]

I Took a Dump the Same Way the Apollo Astronauts did - and Dear God Was It Awful - Jalopnik.com

So, as you can see, taking a shit in space in the Apollo era was awful. Which is why I need to, as best I can, try to do it myself, so I can feel their pain and finally understand.

I reached out to Whirlpool on the very, very off chance they’d still have some Defecation Collection Devices laying around for me to befoul. The person I spoke with on the phone seemed willing to do the research until I foolishly let slip that I was interested in, um, testing one out.

Whirlpool never got back to me.

No matter; if there’s one piece of Apollo-era space hardware that I have any chance of replicating in my own little workshop, this is it. I set out to duplicate, as close as I could, the Fecal Collection Bag, and I think I pulled it off.