60V DC dangerous?

They don't crap on the transporter pads and beam it into space? Maybe that's why there are so many transporter rooms.

The mental ones, too. >:->

And yes, the brain does almost exactly "paper over" a blind spot. When you're using both eyes, it's easy to fill in each other's spot, but when you're just using the one, the brain literally makes stuff up, usually just more of the same backgound. But you'd have to have more eye movement than ordinary saccades give to "remember" what's there - try it some time in an open field, with a friend about 10 or 20 yards away, block one eye, focus on a particular tree, have your friend move across your field of view, and notice where s/he disappears. ;-)

And, of course, since you're only using the one brain, it's hard for itself to see its own blind spots - this is another of the miraculous powers of my various homunculi. >:->

(for a starting hint - your brain has two hemispheres....)

Cheers! Rich

Like the Simpsons spoof episode that takes from "The fly" - Homer buys a pair of telepods at a yard sale, in one scene he puts a telepod next to the toilet and stands in the living room peeing into the other.

Get a piece of graph paper. Put one red dot on it. Prop your head up with, say, your left eye 6" directly above the spot. Look through that eye, around the paper, at a pencil point that you scan around, until the dot disappears from your peripherial vision. Now, without moving your head much, keep looking at the pencil point and move it around. Mark the edges of the region where the dot disappears.

An enlarged or growing blind spot is bad news.

I just did my left eye. See pic in abse, and add your own so we can compare.

John

It's just that nobody on TV or the movies ever has to go to the toilet, except Al Bundy and Archie Bunker.

And all those chicks in the golden shower videos, of course. >:->

I take that back - one time, on Babylon 5, Garibaldi and commander what's-his-name were standing at the urinal talking business. but Babylon

Cheers! Rich

Well, clearly, Star Trek Voyeur[SIC] had them - where do you think the peepholes were? ;-P

Cheers! Rich

How do they deal with their crap on the ISS? It'd be simple to just toss it out a little airlock, but that would waste a lot of air - how do they keep the "atmospheric" pressure up to something livable?

I _have_ heard that they recycle their urine - just distill the water out and probably throw away the solids with the crap, but those things would make awesome fertilizer if we could a station big enough to warrant plants.

I once saw a video of some underwater cave divers, and they had to save up all their crap and pee and bring it back out with them.

Cheers! Rich

They prefer to send it to a Klingon ship, when there are no "Tribbles" available. Have you seen those Klingon ships? No one would notice another load of crap.

Kinda like an "un-replicator"?

But, over a period of five years, given approximately four ounces of crap per day from each of 435 crewmembers, what's the mass of the material that gets thrown overboard?

Since they have artificial gravity, of course, the logical thing to do would be to use a septic system of some kind, and recover all of the valuable [oh, how can I resist such a delicious pun?] *stuff* and like, feed the plants, and resupply the chem lab with trace elements, and so on, don't you think?

Boy, artificial gravity! Now there's some sci-fi for you! ;-)

Cheers! Rich

That was all explained in the intro: "Where no man has gone before!"

where do you think the mass for the food replicators comes from?

To boldly split infinitives that nobody had split before.

Well, this verifies the existence of the retinal blind spot - I wonder what it will take to get people to examine their own, personal, mental blind spots? ;-)

Thanks, Rich

One time, I actually went where no man had gone before - she told me she cold feel mmy glans against her cervix.

Cheers! Rich

Hmm - a lot like the Bush regime...

Cheers! Rich

Whoopee. It still doesn't answer the question of the apparent lack of plumbing on the Starship Enterprise. I never hear anyone call engineering about a backed up commode and I've seen every episode countless times.

I heard (3-4 years ago) they store it and send it home in one of the (unmanned) resupply vehicles which invariably burn up on re-entry.

the space shuttle had some sort of airlock thing - it froze over once.

yup... somo of the water is broken idown by electrolysis to replenish the air.

Bye. Jasen

They were one hour episodes. In between, everybody went home. It was a 5 year voyage, but most of the time the ship was empty.

A blocked bog wouldn't present any engineering problem - just vent to space and let the vacuum do the rest!