How does a space toilet work?
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belboid
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AnnO'Neemus
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I vaguely recalled that some time over the past couple of years I saw an American news bulletin that was warning of the dangers of swimming pool suction vents, just Googled it.
This is probably why they don't use suction:
MINNEAPOLIS — The family of a 6-year-old girl whose intestines were partially sucked out by a Minnesota swimming pool drain last year says the child has died.
Family attorney Bob Bennett says Abigail Taylor's parents were with her when she died Thursday evening at a Nebraska hospital.
Abigail was injured on June 29 when she sat on a pool drain and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract. She had small bowel, liver and pancreas transplants at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in December but suffered complications.
The child's injury led to federal legislation to make pools safer.
"The world's less better off without Abigail Taylor," Bennett said.
Kara Haworth, spokeswoman for the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, confirmed that Abigail had died. She said she could not comment further. She said Abigail's doctors were not available on Friday.
Abigail, of Edina, was injured June 29 when she sat on a wading pool drain at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract. She underwent transplant surgery at the Nebraska hospital to receive a new small bowel, liver and pancreas.
[source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340332,00.html ]
iirc there have been quite a few other cases as well, not necessarily fatal though.
This is probably why they don't use suction:
from Fox article said:
MINNEAPOLIS — The family of a 6-year-old girl whose intestines were partially sucked out by a Minnesota swimming pool drain last year says the child has died.
Family attorney Bob Bennett says Abigail Taylor's parents were with her when she died Thursday evening at a Nebraska hospital.
Abigail was injured on June 29 when she sat on a pool drain and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract. She had small bowel, liver and pancreas transplants at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in December but suffered complications.
The child's injury led to federal legislation to make pools safer.
"The world's less better off without Abigail Taylor," Bennett said.
Kara Haworth, spokeswoman for the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, confirmed that Abigail had died. She said she could not comment further. She said Abigail's doctors were not available on Friday.
Abigail, of Edina, was injured June 29 when she sat on a wading pool drain at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park and its powerful suction ripped out part of her intestinal tract. She underwent transplant surgery at the Nebraska hospital to receive a new small bowel, liver and pancreas.
[source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340332,00.html ]
iirc there have been quite a few other cases as well, not necessarily fatal though.
belboid
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that's the one and only case referred to in my link i think
belboid
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it's all actually down to air flow & fans apparently
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/orbiter/eclss/wcs.html
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/orbiter/eclss/wcs.html
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