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Pooping in Space
Manage episode 408691069 series 2787172
On today’s episode: Scientists have found a bunch of new bacteria in our guts that help us digest plants! NASA’s many solutions to the engineering problem of pooping in space. All that and more today on All Around Science...
RESOURCES
- Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants
- Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
- The world's first animal was probably a carnivore
- https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/eivocv/thanks_i_hate_nasas_fecal_containment_device/
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19760005580/downloads/19760005580.pdf)
- https://www.popsci.com/brief-history-pooping-in-space/
- https://www.popsci.com/how-your-body-betrays-you-in-space/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXg2Lxe7ADw&ab_channel=NerdNite
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wwzwvfsC0&ab_channel=NASA
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760005580
- https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasa-astronaut-had-to-pack-poop-with-her-hand-in-space-heres-why-1859627
- https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nasa-astronauts-pee-and-poop-in-space-2018-8#today-astronauts-at-the-international-space-station-poop-into-a-little-plate-sized-toilet-hole-and-a-fan-vacuum-sucks-their-excrement-away-15
CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
206 episodes
Manage episode 408691069 series 2787172
On today’s episode: Scientists have found a bunch of new bacteria in our guts that help us digest plants! NASA’s many solutions to the engineering problem of pooping in space. All that and more today on All Around Science...
RESOURCES
- Urban humans have lost much of their ability to digest plants
- Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
- The world's first animal was probably a carnivore
- https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/eivocv/thanks_i_hate_nasas_fecal_containment_device/
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19760005580/downloads/19760005580.pdf)
- https://www.popsci.com/brief-history-pooping-in-space/
- https://www.popsci.com/how-your-body-betrays-you-in-space/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXg2Lxe7ADw&ab_channel=NerdNite
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wwzwvfsC0&ab_channel=NASA
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760005580
- https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasa-astronaut-had-to-pack-poop-with-her-hand-in-space-heres-why-1859627
- https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nasa-astronauts-pee-and-poop-in-space-2018-8#today-astronauts-at-the-international-space-station-poop-into-a-little-plate-sized-toilet-hole-and-a-fan-vacuum-sucks-their-excrement-away-15
CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
206 episodes
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