While searching for pretty pictures to illustrate Logjam's space station story from yesterday, I stubmled upon this video from NASA about the space toilet. The host is an idiot; I admire the patience of the NASA administrator explaining this complex tool to this bumbling ironhead while he bounces around pretending that poop is not worthy of scientific inquiry.

Pooping in zero-G presents a lot of problems that traditional gravity-assisted poop never does. You can't just poop into the toilet because it'll float there. And you can't just grab it and put it in a bag because who wants to touch it. And what if it's not solid? It seems NASA has come up with some good solutions... too bad this dundermouth has to make a mockery of it.



"You're sitting on top of a camera."

"Hello! Why would there be a camera... on here?"

"Well, if you notice, the hole there is very small, and that's for solids. Therefore you should be lined up pretty well so that when you use the toilet... you... know where you are."