The atmosphere has a perfectly reasonable 110 hour day/night cycle.

I thought so too, but the phosphine signal turns out to be small but real. What everyone involved in the back and forth debate over it agrees on is the need to send better sensors.

Landis has a ton of good papers around Venus for those who want to nerd out deeper.

Give it a few hours!

Thanks so much! I'm delighted you enjoyed the piece.

It's not an absurd question. The threshold value is the one that breaks surface tension and effectively pulls waste away from the body. It will be more than a few hundredths g but less than 1g.

Unfortunately we have basically no data on the effects of partial gravity, in this context or any other. We can try flying partial-gravity parabolas in aircraft and simulate a Martian toilet the same way they tested the design for Skylab; I don't think this experiment has been done.

You can try it with small capsules and tethers, but it's still a pain.

The hose is the same but there are different funnel attachments (the part looks kind of like the cup from a jock strap, and is longer and narrower for women)

Thanks! Any idea why simultaneous operation of seat and hose wasn't possible before ISS/Orion (not sure which)? And why were they able to get rid of the Space Shuttle camera?

Thank you! Like NASA, I hope to up my operational tempo.

They do not, except for some of the avionics.

That makes me feel better.

This whole project seems pretty lame.