<![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> @aspiringexpatriate: Not at all. What better computer technology is there for human use? More sophisticated computer are basically made of *lots* of high-end consumer parts. Laptops are the epitome of compact and powerful computing.

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]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> I looked at the picture of the sleeping pod and immediately thought, "The enemy's gate is down".

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]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> @EBone: High tech toilet with full privacy apparently. Plus the TeSS has its own toilet too. So that makes two toilets for three people -- more than your average dorm room!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> @Annalee: Well, that answers the question what to do with the waste once you're done. I'm just curious about the, umm, creation process?

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> @EBone: Actually, I have an answer to that question. We covered the issue of space dumping from the ISS on io9 a few weeks ago. The short answer is: they stick all their literal and figurative poop in a shuttle and then shoot it into the Earth atmosphere to burn up. [io9.com]

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> But where do you go to drop one of those really nasty, Tang + freeze dried food dumps? I mean, there's no where you can go to get that much privacy, and unless it somehow decompresses out into space, you know that aroma is going to linger and make its way throughout the station. You're going to need a space-station sized Pine Tree air freshener to hang (or float).

I lived in a small studio apartment in my youth. It's a scary as hell when you have a female guest over, make a nice dinner, sit down to relax, and feel that initial rumbling in your lower intestine that says, "I'm going to need about 30 minutes and way more privacy than that flimsy door five feet away is going to provide." At least in the dorm situation, you go down the hall to take care of business.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> Does anyone else find it weird that they're using consumer laptops on the space station? I mean shouldn't they have better computers up there?

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> @Slothrop: Apparently there is an Ikea-like sleeping module on Zvezda right now. It's called the "temporary sleep station" or TeSS. It has a bed, a toilet, shelves, everything -- and it velcros to the wall. Check it out: [www.nasaexplores.com]

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Tips on Organizing Your Room from the Zvezda Space Habitat]]> But can I get a sleeping pod from Ikea?

Slothrop

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