I don’t know about Roughing the Suspect, but I could’ve sworn NASA sent up a married couple about 10 or so years ago to experiment the feasability of sex in space. Cecil’s didn’t mention this in his column, so it’s very hush hush or I have really powerful dreams.
LOL! This thread is a classic.
I once started a MPSIMS thread about how since astronauts jettison their bodily wastes, that it’s entirely possible that life some day could evolve on some distant world from astronaut poo.
Could become a problem…
More research into this area could solve NASA’s budget problems. Imagine porn filmed in space which could be viewed on NASA’s website for a fee. Porn, the Internet and space exploration all wrapped in one. The money shot would take on a whole new dimension. Ever see the episode of the Simpsons where Homer is flying around grabbing chips with his mouth? Porn stars could be flying around swallowing…ok, you get the idea. Porn has been a factor in driving so much technlogy like VCRs and the Internet, why not harness it to help space exploration?
O_O oh my!
. . . Does anyone else go, “Masturbation . . . in . . . SPAAAAACE” everytime they read the OP? . . .
Yeah, this thread is just itching to be hijacked into a discussion of panspermia. 
Snopes seems to think that is an urban legend:
http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/shuttle.htm
Damn you, wolfstu, for stealing my panspermia joke.
This is why I love GQ: Space seed and nukes, all in one day. 
There’ve been quite a few giggle-inducing threads today.
Ehh … actually only the liquid waste is jettisoned. Solid waste is literally sucked through a ‘flinger’ that deposits it on the walls of a collection chamber, where it is carried back to earth. Here’s a link about how it works. I’ve seen a better explanation with diagrams, but I can’t find it at the moment.
I’m in space right now, if you know what I mean.
In space, no one can hear you come.
That’s the shuttle (the most complicated machine ever built has a toilet where the shit’s supposed to hit the fan!), the Apollo (and earlier) missions were quite different (I’m not sure about Skylab). The astronauts had a plastic baggie that looked like a top hat that they used. The “brim” of the hat had an adhesive on it, which allowed it to cover the astronaut’s rectum so that there’d be little danger of leakage. The astronaut would then reach around and pull the fecal matter into the bag. Once he finished, he’d seal the bag and dispose of it. I’ve no idea if they jettisoned theirs into space, but IIRC, the lander crews dumped theirs on the Moon before leaving.
Well, it’d cost $40 million just to get your stars into space (you could only send 2 up at one time, and both of them would have to go back home before you could send the next set up), then you’d need a camera, some way of mounting it in microgravity (though I imagine one of the crew would be happy to volunteer to be the cameraman, if he’d been up there long enough), and you’d no doubt have to keep all of this secret until after the pair were launched. NASA got all pissy about Dennis Tito being up there, I’m sure that they’d have kittens if you tried to send Ron Jeremy and Asia Carrera up together.
Surely the problem isn’t what to do with the end result but rather how, in zero gravity, you get a decently paced ‘shuffle’ going in the first place?
Is that the ultimate definition of frustration?
Flinging poo…So, that’s why we sent monkeys up into space.
I’m waiting for someone to discover an eons-old alien condom at the bottom of the ocean. Give creationists more to worry about.
OK, first, Ron Jeremy would probably be over the weight limit. He is not exactly slim and slender.
Now that you mention NASA having issues with this, I agree that NASA would not go for it. The Russians would be the ones to do this. They can send the two people up on a supply mission for the Space Station. The Russians can do it cheaper and
don’t seem to have a hang-up about non-cosmonauts taking a ride.
As for the camera, it sure seems like there is always plenty of footage of the people from the shuttle. What would get better ratings, a bunch of braniacs floating around with their hair looking all crazy or two people gettin busy in zero G? Sadly, the movie title Spaceballs is already taken but I am sure there are plenty of catchy titles just waiting to be thought up
Hell, look at the money spent on the space station which is doing basically nothing right now. Imagine if they added a chamber for paying customers to have an orgy. The thing would pay for itself and turn a profit in no time.