NASA coffee cup
NASA coffee cup
The Capillary Cup is a zero-gravity cup designed by NASA astronaut Donald Pettit on the International Space Station. The product is an open drinking cup designed to be used in a microgravity environment, developed from Pettit’s desire to drink water without a bag and straw in outer space.
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TIL: Vulvas are shaped like zero-gravity drinking cups.
Rather the other way around. If it can keep a baby inside for nine months it can probably hold some coffee.
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Does it come in a softer material?
With a plush handle, maybe
But is he getting up or sitting down?
I'm sure the 60ish comments are all going to be about how it looks like a vulva, and there won't even be a single comment that doesn't reference the fact that it looks like a vulva
Edit: exactly two top-level comments in this thread don't directly reference the fact that it looks like a vulva
You think this was posted with the intent of having a discussion about zero g fluid physics?
And then you realize which side you're on.
Vulva.
c/dontputyourdickinthat
Speak for yourself.
Not recommended for tomato juice, fruit punch or red wine.
Kefir?
ohgods
Mmmm so creamy
Smetana
Thanks for that. I thought you drank from the other end.
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Matt Damon doing a fine job with this interview
Conversation in a future space Starbucks: Me: “I’d like a triple grande, soy, no foam latte in a to-go vulva.” Barista: “Yes sir…”
Conversation in my local Starbucks tomorrow: Me: “I’d like a triple grande, soy, no foam latte in a to-go vulva.” Barista: “Sir, I have a taser and pepper spray, if you leave now, I won’t call the cops.”
Good to know that pussy won't spill the load when in zeroGs.
It might spill if you snatch it
Only a twat would do that.
Hint of Vagina
Thats a vulva
Well, they have to be conservative about volume and weight when packing for space travel. So sometimes things have to serve multiple purposes.
All joking aside, does it work under normal earth gravity?
Probably yes. Just need to tilt more so gravity works
Well it's a cup. So I assume so.
I don't get how you're supposed to drink out of it in zero g though as tilting it wouldn't do anything. In the image he hasn't perpet which sort of defeats the purpose.
I read through a couple of articles on it, and the design is rather smart. To my understanding of the fluid dynamics involved, the liquid in the cup basically sticks to the sides the the inside of the cup, there's a thin valley like channel that leads up towards the mouth piece. That valley encourages the liquid to travel up to the mouthpiece by capillary action. The mouthpiece holds the liquid in place by expanding outward rapidly from where the channel ends (this is the flange part that looks naughty as everyone has been joking about).
So the drinking action would be to bring the mouthpiece to your lips, and once you make contact the capillary action and surface contact leads the liquid into your mouth.
The liquid would move rather slowly compared to terrestrial allegories of the same, but if you're only drinking a few sips of coffee or something it shouldn't be significantly different.
I'm sure this would work in the normal method in earth gravity, but because of the strong gravitational force, I've come to conclude that the capillary action of the cup would be massively countered by gravity and it would not function in the same manner on earth. The microgravity environment, IMO, is critical to have for the physics for the liquid flow work as intended.
I'm guessing you swirl it around and it comes out somewhat controlled either at the top or bottom. Not sure though.
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Mulva? 😬
lol god damn it
Hey now.
Hank...?
The whispering eye
Don't put your dick in that
You clearly haven't been stuck on a space station for a few weeks with that kind of advice.
for a moment I thought it was a cute looking ash tray and the dude was holding a cig
Now, find the little man in the boat.
Vajoina
Ah yes that thing where you design something based on something in nature that does what you want...
Stoichiometry or something
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Why not use a sippy cup like a toddler uses? They have these ones with little plastic membranes on top, that when you apply a bit of pressure open up and release the liquid at that point.
Because there's no upsidedown in space. A sippy cup works by using gravity, you have to turn the cup upsidedown to get the liquid to go to the sippy spout so you can suck it out. In outer space the liquid would just be floating free inside the sippy cup and not near the spout for you to suck it out.
I'd imagine that it's because there's complications when being used in microgravity. The people are literal rocket scientists and astrophysicists. I think they've got a good grasp on problem solving.
Release the liquid without gravity? I'm pretty sure any bottle design would need to be collapsible - basically becoming a bag at that point - to work in zero g, but maybe I misunderstand how these cups are supposed to work.
Just remember, when you’re using a straw, it’s not your suction that pulls liquid into your mouth, it’s the difference in the air pressure between the two that pushes it into your mouth.
How I Met Your Mother guy: That's a vagina.
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ayo they could never have me on the ISS, I'd be cumming in coffee cups all day
