So, Instapot that serves as slow cooker, air fryer, pressure cooker and more. As I understand it, space food is pretty awful, so you’ll win friends if you can whip up some tasty meals. Just keep poking the plug into anything that looks like an electrical outlet; sooner or later, something interesting will happen. Maybe check in with Stranger if you have concerns, but I’m sure you’ll be fine.
Your food will float in the center of the Instapot and not cook properly. But maybe you could arrange the power cable so that it dangles in the right orientation and swing it around your head as it cooks. Or get two and operate them like tethered spacecraft:
Certain items I may not want on the dashboard of the dang Space craft.
Ya know?
When I used to work on GPS systems, we always had to take into account things in orbit were moving so fast that you had to take relativity into account. Just be warned that your VCR is probably going to cut off the last 0.000000000013 seconds of whatever you’re recording.
Like two putrid ships passing in the night…
ETA: I should have gone with: Like two ships passing gas in the night.
Just gotta say that’s the most appropriate and funniest use of that memey phrase I’ve seen, Cheers.
Why so much with washing clothes? You are going to stink like an apeman, yet usually only others woud detect it (as you woud them)
There certainly would be 220V AC. In most places outside of the USA, we do not want to wait 10 minutes for our kettle to boil.
Other than a water-boiling kettle, I am at a loss. Do you like toast? Well you can’t make toast even if the O2 level allowed for it. Know how microwaving popcorn makes a big office stink? This would be worse.
A good tablet and maybe a phone for tunes, and you’ll have a wonderful time.
I suggest taking Pan Am to the Moon. Do they still have regular service?
Sorry to inflict some reality on this thread, but ….
Cooking will be by either hot/boiling water or microwave oven. No open flames allowed, for sure.
No laundry - clothes on the ISS are worn until unacceptably odorous or dirty then packed in with the garbage. That is later released to fall back to Earth and burn up in the atmosphere.
No dishwasher - “dishes” are either pouches in which you can inject water for rehydrating freeze-dried food or soft tortillas (because they don’t generate crumbs). Used pouches go in the garbage with your used socks and the tortillas you eat. Utensils are usually disposable but if you brought your own re-usable sporks there are basically wet-wipes to clean it.
Watching TV/listening to music/etc. works pretty much like they do on Earth, although sometimes with lag. There are plenty of videos on line of ISS residents using laptops and personal electronics which they presumably keep in their teeny tiny personal sleeping/resting area.
There most certainly is not. It’s solar powered. You would have to convert DC to AC, and for what purpose? So some friend of Elmo can bring his washing machine along? ![]()
At least they have batteries. else you’d have only about 40 minutes to make a proper cup of tea.
Kitchen Aid mixer with all of the accessories; it can be used to make sausage or bread or cakes, it slices, it dices, it juliennes; just set it on the counter, easy-peasy. (Ummm, will a mixer floating around cause any issues?)
So will it perpetually blink 12:01 instead of midnight?
Lol. I think anything that depends on gravity to hold the product in the right place to be processed isn’t going to be helpful, whether or not it becomes a hazard as it drifts around.
So, i guess the grinding attachment might work, if you can catch the sausage coming out the other end, but anything that takes place in the bowl ain’t gonna be sliced, diced, mixed, etc.
I reckon the ISS does have a lot of outdated stuff like VCR’s and Fax machines. They’ve got more important stuff to bring down.
Last thing we need is space junk like blenders and VCR’s in orbit. I mean, there is no way besides some propellant to kick that stuff into the atmosphere, right?
They can eject trash into a decaying orbit right now. The delta-v seems to be provided by the election mechanism itself, so not a lot… but apparently enough, eventually.
But I doubt the waste ejection system will accommodate anything bulky.
You can’t put it out with the regular trash, but, if you call to prearrange it, on the third Thursday of the month, they do take mattresses. Does the ISS use Waste Management? ![]()
Good news! I’ve got one of those!
I can bring up a few bottles of Febreze to spray on my clothes but I don’t really want to be sitting in my own funk whilst playing on my PS4 so I hope to find a way of washing my underwear.
I’m going to stick some double sided tape on the bottom of my chess pieces, I’m sure it’ll be alright.
I know you’re all dubious about my ability to survive on the ISS, but I’m not stupid - I’m not going to hammer nails into the wall to hang my pictures from!
They won’t weight anything in space, I’ll just prop them up with a stick or something.
Sticky tape. Double sided tape is awesome.
I think they used Velcro to secure stuff on the Space Shuttle.