Comments on: Toilet is Fixed and Kibo is Switched On – A Great Day Aboard the ISS (Video)

By: How to Get Six Pack Fast

How to Get Six Pack Fast — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:47:43 +0000

This topic is quite trendy on the Internet at the moment. What do you pay attention to when choosing what to write ?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:24:04 +0000

I have a question. At the end of the Reuters video it says solid waste is compressed and brought back to Earth. Why? What is the benefit?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:23:29 +0000

too funny on that god is a mean spirit post. God hath more fury than a woman scorned!

Anyhoo, I'm disappointed in the reuters video. It should've ended with a closeup of an astro/cosmonaut's face suddenly relaxing to a smile…

Ahhhhhhhh…..

By: H-town Mack

H-town Mack — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:50:09 +0000

The reason the toilet fix is so important is because it would have compromised the ISS mission had they not been able to quickly repair it like they did.

By: alphonso richardson

alphonso richardson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:06:29 +0000

Yeah, now the guys have uncrossed their legs, maybe they can tell us what reseach has ACTUALLY gone on aboard KIBO.

Now don't forget to wash your hands…………………………………….

By: Mang

Mang — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:23:43 +0000

When I first saw this article, I misread Kibo for KYBO, an acronym that refers to a latrine.

Perhaps the irony of this will be lost on anyone who hasn't but in time at a Scout camp.

By: Chuck Lam

Chuck Lam — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:15:04 +0000

Can you imagine an early mission unrepairable toilet failure on a multi-month manned trip to Mars? Or a more halarious multi-generation mission to the Alpha C system. I wish NASA would get it's head on straight and focus on projects beneficial to main stream America.

By: Jozef K

Jozef K — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:05:43 +0000

I think MegaChrist is the best name i've ever seen. Holy crap.

By: S Cena

S Cena — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:08:01 +0000

Why is it that all the news about this shuttle mission is focused on the space toilet? Oh yeah, there's that Kibo thing but they fixed the toilet! Every story I've heard or read about this missoin starts off with the toilet. It is as bad as the story about the astronaut who drove from Texas to Florida to confront her love rival and wore an astronaut diaper. That story was all about astronaut diapers.

Come on folks. That may be important when you're 6 years old but get over it. What's next? Will the official greeting between station and shuttle commanders when they open the hatch be, "Pull my finger"?

I'm interested in the science of space not how you flush.

By: Stuart M

Stuart M — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:46:27 +0000

I don't care what god thinks about the ISS because he doesn't exist.

By: Kevin White

Kevin White — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:21:17 +0000

I feel kind of dumb for asking, but is that a photo?? I don't think it is, but perhaps I'm wrong.

I think god is going to have his hands too full with the LHC for the time being to worry about the ISS.

By: Hex

Hex — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:31:44 +0000

>gods wishes…

So you agree that there are more than one?

MegaChrist (Probably a disgruntled ex-NASA employee) go away and leave us heathens be.

By: H-town Mack

H-town Mack — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:56:37 +0000

Mega, you gotta be kidding right? Funny either way. Anyhow, just wondering why they don't have more than one toilet up there. And wonder if they used that cool robot attachment to help install the lab.

By: Sci-Fi Si

Sci-Fi Si — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:41:58 +0000

Well that was a nice comment by MegaChrist there, obviousle an Astrophysicist through and through.

Anyway… glad to hear the tiolet is sorted, but would love to hear more about Kibo. Whats it able to research? It's the biggest lab yet to be attached to the ISS – What can it do.

Thanks for the article.

By: MegaChrist

MegaChrist — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:17:21 +0000

It's only a matter of time before God Almighty brings this abomination down as a flaming ember. The ISS is the polar opposite of gods wishes for us.