Re: Sanitary Arrangements

>> I'd worry about the health of anyone who could "hold it in" for
>longer than
>> one day.  Or did you mean hold the full chamber pots on ship for a
>few days?
>
>Haven't you ever been on a long camping trip?

Does three days in the Boundary Waters count?  We're talking about two
different things, though.  I was thinking of trying to hold in both solid
and liquid waste, and cutting back on fluid intake enough to not need to
urinate is a good way to land in the hospital.  Holding in solid waste,
depending on what rations you're carrying, is possible.

> But if you're urinating, I'm sure that if you
>launched it off the back of the ship, it would find its way out of the
>air
>envelope, whereupon it becomes you problem no longer.

Both liquid and solid waste probably would work their way out, but do you
want to wait for that to happen?  Could make getting volunteers to scrape
barnacles harder than usual.  And then there's pulling alongside another
ship when you've got urine globules or fecal matter floating on your
gravity plane -- gives a new meaning to "fouling the air envelope" :) .