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Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by throwup238 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:29PM (#42505721)
> Space toilets are one of those things that are both critical and ignored in most depictions of space. Even in all the years of Star Trek they have "sonic showers" , but never depict a toilet

Why would they? They have artificial gravity everywhere and iirc it’s never failed like every other piece of technology when the plot demands it. The toilets wouldn’t look any different, except maybe the ones to accommodate non-human species (THAT would be interesting). Star Trek elides a lot of things that would otherwise be boring because “post-nuclear war Utopia solved it.”

Evacuation is only interesting in zero-G. Although to be fair I don’t remember the expanse or most other hard scifi touching on the topic.

Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by 0_____0 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:36PM (#42506014)
The novel versions of the Expanse do touch on human excreta at points. There's a mention of a urine collection device in a space suit at some point.
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by duskwuff on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @08:33PM (#42506237)
The TV series does too, indirectly. Look up the etymology of the expletive "felota".
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by crazygringo on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:36PM (#42506015)
I suddenly realize, though, that I can't ever remember seeing a bathroom door anywhere on any USS Enterprise or similar.

Like, wouldn't there be one tucked away in a back corner of the bridge, or a corner of a room or passage adjoining the bridge? Shouldn't we see a bathroom door, or at least the open entrance to a "bathroom corridor", as the characters do a walk-and-talk down the hallways?

And then... regular TV shows show women putting on or taking off their makeup in the bathroom mirror, people having a conversation through the shower door, someone in a stall overhearing a conversation by the sink... has Star Trek ever shown that?

What the heck does a bathroom look like on Star Trek? And the bathroom signage?

Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by p_ing on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:58PM (#42506107)
Visually, it's on the bridge of the Enterprise D [0][1]. Everyone else has to use a bucket [2].

[0] https://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/star-trek-the-n...

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom

[2] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Odo%27s_bucket

Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by crazygringo on Thursday December 26, 2024 @01:02PM (#42516646)
Son of a gun, they did put one tucked away in a back corner on the bridge!

Thanks.

Not that it looked distinctive in any way, so you'd never notice:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom?file=Head_door...

But I am honestly amazed they did it at all.

Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by ttepasse on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @08:02PM (#42506121)
Star Trek has "sonic showers": https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_shower

And for other bathroom activities: One can imagine creative use of the transporter. Although: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIsauNJ392o

Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by xoxxala on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:59PM (#42506108)
There is a bathroom door off the Enterprise-D bridge labeled HEAD. And the official deck plans have a second bathroom off of Picard’s ready room. But those are the only official ones.
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by smitelli on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:45PM (#42506054)
The Battlestar Galactica reboot had a few scenes in the locker room/shower/toilet area. Pretty spartan, but probably familiar to anyone who served on a navy ship.