As if pooping in zero gravity is not difficult enough. As many times as the toilets have broken down in past years, I'd think they'd be happy to share, especially considering where poop would end up if the toilet breaks, plus the aforementioned zero gravity

You have to wonder how "small" the fecal feud really is when you're locked in an airtight container, unable to escape foreign vapors. Fortunately Mr. Padalka says it's the bureaucrats and politicians who are squabbling, not the folks actually sharing space on the ISS.
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Entropy - it's a tough job, but somebody's got to undo it.

I would have to truly feel sorry for anyone who was locked up in such a small space and had to try and cope with my steamers, especially if they weren't able to be flushed away- even if they used some kinda super bugs to try and "digest" it- I'm afraid those fella's would simply end up lights out on top of the pile, and others who had to share the space with me would be less than impressed!

I wonder whether they're tanking this stuff or what. It would seem to be a waste of resources since, presumably, they aren't recycling it. I say crap into a plastic sack, squeeze as much gas out of the bag as possible, seal it tight and then chuck it out the airlock.
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My special need's student crapped in your honor roll student's backpack.

Sorry Déjà, but your idea might cause problems with the windshield on the space shuttle. That would be so much worse than seagulls.

Perhaps, an orbital outhouse complete with an intergalactic Sears catalog or orbital corn cobs.

Look, squatter, if they don't want to chuck it out the window, they could just store the bags until their next EVA. Once outside, the hurl it free of the station, the earth's gravity pulls the bag back down, it burns up on re-entry and the entire earth gets treated to a cremated shit shower.
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My special needs student crapped in your honor roll student's backpack.

Wow. The possibilities here are endless. I'm betting that an astronaut on the moom could probably muster enough strength to hurl a sack-o-shit hard enough to put it in low orbit. That could be a moon sport. How many sacks o' shit did you put in orbit during your tenure on Luna?
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My special needs student crapped in your honor roll student's backpack.

Great article, TBox. Wow, what a sad state of affairs. What I want to know, though, is this:

Most people like their own home toilet, and space would seem to be no different. Why would the Russians want to use the American toilets? Do the Americans have padded seats or something? A better pee vacuum? Why would they want to poop in the American toilets anyway?

I hope the astronauts can get past this and continue to get along. It's got to be weird being in space, but to be in space and to not get along with fellow astronauts would be a completely unnecessary stress. And it's too bad that we're bogarting the shitbox!

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