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"The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with engineers from the private sector to develop a next-generation space toilet, which they hope to complete within the next five years. Clean and easy to use, the envisioned space toilet is designed to be worn like a diaper around the astronaut’s waist at all times. Sensors detect when the user relieves him or herself, automatically activating a rear-mounted suction unit that draws the waste away from the body through tubes into a separate container. In addition to washing and drying the wearer after each use, the next-generation space toilet will incorporate features that eliminate unwanted sound and odor. " - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

Five years? I don't think I can hold it that long. - Jim Norris

geeezz....it feels a lot like a FREMEN stillsuit from Frank Herbert's Dune novel... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... - Daniele Muscetta

"Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

haha Alvin : ) - Jess Lee

even just when in a crowded shopping centre or similar busy place I go insane, feel dumb, get a headache and need to run out of it ASAP. traffic stresses you, you all know that. I LOVE when "scientists" say things that seem pretty obvious to anyone by just having been in that situation themselves... still I suppose it helps to spread the idea, though. I hear of a lot of people who MOVE OUT of the city and go live in a smaller village just outside of it, so that they can "relax" in the weekends, for example. - Daniele Muscetta

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