186 - Pooping in Space

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

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