Is that a record for the biggest piss bottle ever made?
With the qualification 'in orbit', I imagine it is.
Something like that during a covid like moment would suck donkey rocks.
Animal population studies used to be (in my understanding) largely observational. Now, people can do scat tests and identify individuals.
https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/items/ff1a240e-1fb1-4b04-acb2-42e9c45...
> The main sources of VMS were determined to be antiperspirants ... skin lotions ... wipes ... and hair conditioner. Several siloxanes-free options are available for [these products]. These products are now being assessed for crew member use in future increments.
From the blog:
> At present the agency is testing a new filtration system to put in front of the heat exchangers, to try to protect them, and continuing to try to cut down on siloxanes at the source level. There are probably people at NASA now whose entire career has been built on siloxane control.
Why wasn't the result to simply ban siloxane-containing cosmetics and wipes? The cosmetics are up to the individual astronaut, which is a little crazy, but the wipes are provided by NASA, and they're still using siloxane-bearing wipes, which shortens the life of their water systems and costs crazy amounts of money.
I would assume there is an approval process in place and alternatives have to go through this process before they can be sent up. It might take months or years for approval.
There are so many useless chemicals in modern products... Like foamers in shampoos... You don't need that crap, it works fine without it... But us humans are so stupid that we think that if the shampoo ain't foaming, it ain't working. Same story with artificial colours. Human idiocy and suggestibility to marketing is infuriating. Bahhhh bahhhh. Mooo mooooo.
But does it work fine in zero-G, and does the "natural" alternative interact with any other process on the space station?
This sort of substitution is trivial here on Earth, and quite complex in a tiny closed ecosystem spinning through the cosmos
There is a good cautionary tale here from the Space Shuttle era. That vehicle
had heat resistant tiles that had to be attached to the aluminum belly of the
orbiter. A special cloth had been certified for wiping the aluminum clean
before applying the primer that securely bonded the tiles to the metal. After
years of uneventful use, tile engineers discovered that new replacement tiles
were no longer curing properly.
A careful investigation revealed that the supplier of that special cloth had
changed the lubricant used in the machine that sews its hem. Minute amounts
of the lubricant were being deposited on the stitching, and enough of that
residue was getting on the aluminum skin to prevent the tile adhesive from
curing properly.
Since the switch to euro, I think the most commonly accepted value of one "brique" is (unofficially) 10 000 €, but the uncertainty makes it basically useless.
I can't recall I've heard "brique" used since the switch to € but it might just be my local bubble