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    Steampunk Toilet Flushes Away Your Clockwork Dreams

    Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets

    How To Shit In Space
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    Image of HowIsYourFlat HowIsYourFlat
    10/13/09

    In reply to Steampunk Toilet Flushes Away Your Clockwork Dreams
    Unless this is a vacuum toilet, this fails for me. It makes sense if it uses the steam built pressure to suck the number 1 and 2 away, but if that's not the purpose then it fails in many ways. You should not steampunk just b/c you can.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/13/09

    @HowIsYourFlat: Thank you for the last sentence.
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    Image of qandadesign qandadesign
    10/13/09

    In reply to Steampunk Toilet Flushes Away Your Clockwork Dreams
    not sure if I trust compressed steam so close to my junk :( though I love Steampunk I think I'll go modern on my lavatorial needs...
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/13/09

    @qandadesign: Steampunk next to your junk, what could go wrong?
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    10/13/09

    In reply to Steampunk Toilet Flushes Away Your Clockwork Dreams
    Make sure that laser is pointing the right way!
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    10/13/09

    In reply to Steampunk Toilet Flushes Away Your Clockwork Dreams
    A Clockwork Dump

    Never really understand the fascination of romanticizing old technology. It wasn't really all that good in the first place otherwise we'd still be using it.
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    Edited by ManchuCandidate at 10/13/09 6:39 AM ManchuCandidate was starred ManchuCandidate was unstarred
    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    10/13/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Although, really, the toilet is one piece of technology that hasn't changed all that much since its invention. It's just water-pressure and valves.

    On the other hand, I can see (for some things) liking the steampunk aesthetic. For instance, I have this keyboard that I type on, and I would definitely like something that felt substantial under my hands, for when I get the apoplexy.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/13/09

    @ManchuCandidate: i don't belive stempunk or teslapunk or whatever the crazy kids are calling it these days is romanticising old technology nearly as much as it is a romanticising of a bygone eras ideas of what the future would look like. cyberpunk is very much the same thing only the era is the 80's and 90's. the fallout series is another excellent example of a the future world rendered through the eyes of the sci-fi of the 50's and 60's. someday, in 20-30 years, i imagine there will be conventions for FTLpunk or holopunk about the current generations ideas of what the future would look like.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/13/09

    @braak: You and your apoplexy! Calm down... have some espresso... that I brewed using my STEAMPUNK ESPRESSO MAKER MWAHAHA wait, technically espresso is made with a bunch of steam, right? Rendering this entire thing moot?
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/13/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: no, espresso is not made with steam. not in a decent machine anyway.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/13/09

    @tetracycloide: Should I be thinking cappuccino?
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/13/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: no. cappuccinos are made out of espresso and milk.

    there is no word for an espresso made with steam instead of pressurized hot water other than 'burnt' or possibly 'abomination.'
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    10/14/09

    @ManchuCandidate:
    Nah, that's not really true - sometimes the technology in common use today is inferior to older tech.

    No commonly available modern desk telephone is nearly as good as a push-button Western Electric rental instrument from the '70s, for example.

    I'm a fan of the market, but it doesn't always provide the best possible products.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    No love for the zero-g toilet from 2001?
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    Image of Luziphir Luziphir
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    I don't know what that sign at the top of the page is from, but ZZ is male and ZW is female. Unless they're trying to get some hot human on alien action going then um... whoops?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/20/09

    @Luziphir: Those signs were put up at the Los Angeles WorldCon back in 2006. I've got photos of them myself. I don't know if they were promoting anything, or if they were just for the funny.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    07/20/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Mrs. Overclock saw them just back in February on the restrooms in the lobby of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.
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    Image of Luziphir Luziphir
    07/21/09

    @Luziphir: Just to clarify, ZZ/ZW is the actual sex determination system in birds and some insects so it's not like they just came up with some random letters, they were going for something based on reality and either fucked it up or did it intentionally to avoid confusing morons who failed high school biology. Either way that's kind of annoying >:(
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    Image of Zapp Brannigan's Girdle Zapp Brannigan's Girdle
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    A slight correction, even though I really hate to sound like some sort of hyper-offended fanboy, but the brig toilet was seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, not The Undiscovered Country.

    I feel so dirty now.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    07/20/09

    @Zapp Brannigan's Girdle: It's OK. I noticed it too. Sybok would say you should embrace your pain.
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    Image of Shadowcat24 Shadowcat24
    07/21/09

    @Zapp Brannigan's Girdle: I noticed the brig toilet in ST V too. It was pretty conventional. It looks like what they use in a jail or prison today. My friends and I used to joke about the toilets on Star Trek. A ship the size of the Enterprise would have to have a LOT of toilets. Come to think of it, I don't think I saw a toilet in any episodes of the original series.
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    Image of Zapp Brannigan's Girdle Zapp Brannigan's Girdle
    07/22/09

    @Shadowcat24: As limited as the budget was in the original series, they probably couldn't even afford a cardboard toilet.
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    Image of palmer45 palmer45
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    Wonder where's the bathroom on the TARDIS, if it even has one! Though it has to since it has all those rooms we haven't seen in the new series...except the wardrobe room.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/20/09

    @ComradeLenin: There's a bucket in the corner.
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    What about Spaceballs? The toilets may not have been futuristic, but the video conference screens above them were pretty awesome... though it would be hard to conference with them while blasting a dookie.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    The Lexx licking toilet would kind of creep me out. Okay, replace kind of with totally.

    Starbuck staring/glaring at me while she pees is disturbing mostly because I prefer not to make eye contact while pissing.
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    07/20/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Dude, stagefright. No talking, no looking, no singing, no eating. A minimum 30 feet from the door.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    he doesn't know what to do with the sea shells
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    Image of edosan edosan
    07/20/09

    @tetracycloide: Thank you for remembering that one.
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    Image of ShubNecktie ShubNecktie
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    One more: the Zero Gravity Toilet from 2001. (The instructions are a little complicated: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/aso/zeroGtoilet.html )
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    Image of EBone EBone
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    Don't forget that after being found not guilty in his trial, Baltar got the snot beat out of him in the loo.
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    07/20/09

    @EBone: And Helo and Boomer got it on in the bathroom while Athena watched.

    Crazy place, that Galactica bathroom!
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    07/20/09

    @EBone: I believe it is also where he used the phrase "No more Mr. Nice Gauis" and had an extremely awkward conversation with Gaeta.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    Heh... My Teacher Glows in the Dark. I loved that book. When I was 10.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/20/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: That book was great.... for me to POOP ON.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    07/20/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: Was that book from a series of "My Teacher (fill in the blank)" novels, or is my ten year old inner self making shit up again?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/20/09

    @Alexis Brown: I think the first one was, creatively enough, My Teacher is an Alien.
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    Image of Farrell McGovern Farrell McGovern
    07/20/09

    In reply to Where's The Bathroom On The Enterprise? 9 Space Toilets
    Hey, where's the Zero G Toilet from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Here are the instructions:

    http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/aso/zeroGtoilet.html

    It was even mentioned here 2 years ago!

    http://io9.com/photogallery/spacebathrooms/1000370856
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    07/20/09

    @Farrell McGovern: In the Blu-Ray version, you can actually read the instructions onscreen.
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