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    Steampunk Toilet Flushes Away Your Clockwork Dreams

    Toilet Triumph in Space!

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    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 bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    12/19/08

    In reply to Toilet Triumph in Space!
    A $19 million space toilet?!


    I'm in the wrong racket....

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    Image of mad love for Astrid mad love for Astrid
    12/19/08

    In reply to Toilet Triumph in Space!
    They couldn't spring the extra 20 bucks for a real door?


    God it's like the communal bathrooms in my freshman dorm.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/19/08

    @mad love for Astrid: Hey, those drapes prolly cost $5mill in R&D costs. They probably can do real time thermal imaging on the people in the bathroom while cooking up a mean souffle.
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    Image of 4ndreVV 4ndreVV
    12/19/08

    In reply to Toilet Triumph in Space!
    don't be so squeamish, just stir in some Tang
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    12/19/08

    @4ndreVV:

    After a hard day working in space, Tang is exactly what an astronaut needs.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/19/08

    @Belabras: If it's not stirred by orangutans, it's NOT TANG, it's RUSSIAN SPACE URINE.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    12/19/08

    In reply to Toilet Triumph in Space!
    Care for some lemonaid? It's all natural.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/19/08

    @Belabras: Why does it taste like vodka?
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    12/19/08

    @crashedpc:

    Ask El Tinklenberg.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/19/08

    @Belabras: I can't, he's passed out on the space toilet again.
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    Image of jbq jbq
    12/19/08

    @crashedpc: So he's now a porn star luchador astronaut? I have to say that is kind of awesome.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/19/08

    @jbq: Honestly I didn't see the previous post for El Tinkelberg so I seriously thought that was a joke name. Dear gods.
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    Image of jbq jbq
    12/19/08

    @crashedpc: Hahaha! Well, he's only the latest, great porn star luchador astronaut science hero, that's who! I totally would have voted for him.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/19/08

    @jbq: I bet the real El Tinkelberg is at home, silently weeping into a glass of brandy of all the missed potential that he could have been.
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    Image of silver-bolt silver-bolt
    12/19/08

    In reply to Toilet Triumph in Space!
    "This water tastes a bit funny"
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/19/08

    @silver-bolt:
    That's because you're using the wrong tap. Try the one labelled "water". The other one just gives you super-concentrated pee.
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