I like it!
Without doing any checks, I expect the ISS food warmer is more commonly known as a microwave. It might need something different than a terrestrial microwave to keep the food centered and rotating, though.
No, microwaves aren’t on the ISS - too heavy and not safe.
OK, I’ll grant that microwaves are fairly heavy, although for the ISS, they’d get rid of the heavy platter and replace it with something to keep the food centered and rotating. But how are they unsafe? I’m struggling to come up how they’re less safe in a 0g environment.
They might interfere with communications. Terrestrial microwaves are shielded, but even so, they often interfere with WiFi frequencies.
It looked more like a convection oven to me.
I read that convection ovens don’t work in zero-G, and when they baked cookies on the ISS in 2019, they had to rig a special oven that used conduction. But…couldn’t they use a fan to create air circulation?
Despite the name that’s what convection ovens do.
Right, which is why I don’t understand why they say it won’t work in zero-G.
Probably unrelated but now I’m sitting here wondering if hot air rises in zero g. It doesn’t, right?
It expands in all directions.
There is no “up” in zero g.
There are videos of flames in zero gravity. They look nice. Example. Another example. There is a multitude of examples.
Ha! First time I’d heard that. I shared it with a geographer colleague, and he loved it.
Similarly, the average person has one testicle.
Actually, slightly less than one testicle.
Here’s a strange, similar statistic: the average person has more than one complete skeleton. Why? Because of pregnant people carrying fetuses.
Actually, slightly more than one, for the reason outlined in the blurred text above, plus the fact that the global population of men slightly exceeds that of women (despite the fact that women typically live longer).
The average human does have less than two legs, though.
I don’t know if I buy the argument that a pregnant woman “has” all the organs of the fetus. If I’m carrying someone on my shoulders, do I temporarily have two heads?
Zaphod, old chap, long time no see!
You could get more precise and add the qualifier “inside their body.” A pregnant woman has two complete skeletons inside her body (assuming the fetus is far along sufficiently in development), as well as two testicles (in the case of a male fetus).