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Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: neilep on 16/06/2009 14:06:41
Dearest Bottom Burp Specialists,

As a sheepy, I am of course far too royal to do bottom burps.. I could not allow my anal sphincter to  demonstrate such proletariat gesturing !

Now look here , see Klondike the Astronaut !

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He's just taken delivery of a kebab but there was far too much chilli sauce and his derriere is performing Tchaikovsky's 1812 with verve and aplomb !

So, where does all that extraneous gas go ?..does it vent into outer space enabling Klondike to really follow his nose home ?..or does it just inflate his suit till he becomes a balloon ?

ewe see..I really do not know !!

do ewe ?


hugs & shmishes

mwah mwah mwah




Neil
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Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: Don_1 on 16/06/2009 17:00:42
Just don't light up a fag in there Klondike!!!
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: latebind on 16/06/2009 22:15:33
hopefully it is only gas that comes out of him, and somehow i think it will probably stay in the suite, dont ask me how i know, a little birdie told me
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: neilep on 17/06/2009 00:27:50
Just don't light up a fag in there Klondike!!!

Or be juvenile and let off some crackers !
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: neilep on 17/06/2009 00:28:57
hopefully it is only gas that comes out of him, and somehow i think it will probably stay in the suite, dont ask me how i know, a little birdie told me

The gas must be stored somewhere !..is there a spoongey thing that absorbs it  ? !!..do they have charcoal underwear ?
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Post by: Chemistry4me on 17/06/2009 03:02:17
I think he'll go to the toilet before he goes out and if it happens. He/she will just have to deal with it!
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Post by: JnA on 17/06/2009 03:31:38
I was under the impressions that the helmet air is a separate closed system to the rest of the suit.
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Post by: Chemistry4me on 18/06/2009 03:26:49
Well if it is then there's no problems at all! [:)]
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Post by: lyner on 18/06/2009 11:12:53
It's no worse than a sleeping bag!
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Post by: Bored chemist on 18/06/2009 19:17:36
I was under the impressions that the helmet air is a separate closed system to the rest of the suit.
Even if that's true, it only helps 'till they get back to the ship.
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: neilep on 18/06/2009 19:25:23
I think he'll go to the toilet before he goes out and if it happens. He/she will just have to deal with it!


I can understand the need for some diaper luff when it comes from doing an orbital motion !..but I'm concerned as to where the gas accumulates....
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: neilep on 18/06/2009 19:26:08
I was under the impressions that the helmet air is a separate closed system to the rest of the suit.

I hope so !!..could be a bit awkward if there was ome ...erhmmm...' follow-through' !!
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: neilep on 18/06/2009 19:27:13
It's no worse than a sleeping bag!

In a space-walk ...no one can hear ewe fart !..in a sleeping bag..one might !
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: lyner on 18/06/2009 22:41:41
They could stuff their pants with activated charcoal, I suppose.
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Post by: John Chapman on 19/06/2009 00:41:59
And what happens if he sneezes all over the inside of his visor? He'd have to lick it off or he wouldn't be able to see. If he's anything like my wife one big sneeze and he'd wet himself! Come to think of it, if he did it wouldn't run down his leg like it would on Earth but it would keep floating up into his helmet. After he'd licked all his snot off the visor he'd have to suck up and drink of his own urine. Let's hope he's not got diarrhea!
 
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: neilep on 19/06/2009 00:47:22
And what happens if he sneezes all over the inside of his visor? He'd have to lick it off or he wouldn't be able to see. If he's anything like my wife one big sneeze and he'd wet himself! Come to think of it, if he did it wouldn't run down his leg like it would on Earth but it would keep floating up into his helmet. After he'd licked all his snot off the visor he'd have to suck up and drink of his own urine. Let's hope he's not got diarrhea!
 

That's a sound and valid argument for the complete and total closure of the entire space program !

...and what of itches !!????
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Post by: lyner on 19/06/2009 12:59:57
It calls for some self control and true grit, chaps.
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Post by: John Chapman on 22/08/2009 11:48:38
On a more serious note what happens to female astronauts if they menstruate? Without the benefit of gravity where does all the icky stuff (see, I know all the medical terms) go?

On terra firma if women experience a ‘backflow’ into the fallopian tubes it can lead to endometriosis. Endometriosis is where cells that normally line the uterus (endometrial cells) are deposited in places outside the uterine cavity. The cells then tend to continue to be influenced by menstrual hormone changes leading to menstrual activity occurring in the wrong places. Ooowww!

According to Wiki, the first female in space was Valentina Tereshkova in the 1963 Vostok 6 spaceflight, so there’s a fairly long tradition of women flying spacecraft. Fortunately Valentina wasn’t required to parallel park the thing so the Russians let her go up alone. I suppose with the nearest next object being nearly 250,000 miles away they could trust she wouldn’t prang it.
 
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: John Chapman on 22/08/2009 11:50:04
Come to that, why don't bedridden women on Earth experience backflow?
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Post by: Nizzle on 24/08/2009 11:57:55
Side question to this topic:

Will the astronaut's gas cloud ever collapse on itself and provide us with a second moon?
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: lyner on 24/08/2009 13:53:46
Come to that, why don't bedridden women on Earth experience backflow?
There is a constant flow 'downwards' due to the cillia in the Fallopian tubes, I understand.  The tubes are pretty narrow and the fluids are pretty viscous so any flow rate would be slow. 0g (laying down) would not be likely to produce backflow. What about all the animals whose bodies are pretty much horizontal all the time? Evolution must have  sorted this out.
I imagine that hanging upside down in 1g conditions for some time might possibly cause problems. How do female trapeze artist figure in the statistics of Endometriosis? (What about bats?)
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Post by: Nizzle on 24/08/2009 14:19:06
The answer is Peristalsis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristalsis), which also occurs in fallopian tubes
Title: Where Do A Spacewalking Astronauts' Farts Go ?
Post by: DrChemistry on 24/08/2009 14:53:01
Will the astronaut's gas cloud ever collapse on itself and provide us with a second moon?

Unlikely. But imagine if it did happen. What would then happen to tides and seasons?

I also wonder where the excrements of the Astronauts go while they are out on a space walk. Surely they do not have time to get forth and back.  [???]