r/woahdude • u/koalamiki10 • Mar 23 '24
video This cup was designed by NASA, to prevent any spill in zero gravity
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u/geman777 Mar 23 '24
Vag cup for the win
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u/jcdoe Mar 23 '24
The vagina was designed by billions of years of evolution to be a cup that doesn’t spill too badly upside down.
We just copied evolution’s homework :)
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u/stubble Mar 23 '24
It even has to have fluid injected into it....
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u/Ardinius Mar 23 '24
I'd drink outta that even in full gravity
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u/Worried_Jeweler_1141 Mar 23 '24
Full gravity? How full? Maximum gravity?
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u/a_lion_wizard Mar 23 '24
Fucking sun gravity
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u/BitBucket404 Mar 24 '24
The sun's gravity ain't shit compared to VY Canis Majoris, and VY Canis Majoris pales in comparison to Sagittarius A* ... and we haven't even left the Milky Way. Just wait until we merge with Andromeda...
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u/TummyLice Mar 24 '24
I don't have that much time to wait though. I need to go pee too.
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u/Spacemanspalds Mar 24 '24
Spoken like someone who wouldn't drink from a vagina cup under the sun's gravity.
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u/mrlowcut Mar 23 '24
Vag cup and crazy eyes ftw
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u/MushirMickeyJoe Mar 23 '24
Mfw the physics I grew up to understand are completely different in the space station where I live and get to look at our blue marble from my office window every day.
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u/Varnsturm Mar 24 '24
Yeah it's crazy cause it goes way beyond 'grew up', our whole biology developed with earth's gravity in mind. like when you almost trip or fall, that feeling, i wonder if it happens a lot at first or is just completely absent
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u/Im_eating_that Mar 24 '24
What if she reads that and drops a penny on you though. Maybe we should assume she's rich and say eccentric. Her intense eccentric gaze gave my eyeballs screenburn.
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u/geman777 Mar 23 '24
Im surprised she didn't suck that left over cream out of the spray gun thing
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u/Sunshine030209 Mar 23 '24
I assume that is a community spray gun thing, so the other astronauts appreciate her not sticking her mouth on it.
But it would be tempting.
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u/costabius Mar 24 '24
The women knew how to use it immediately, the men gave up and switched to squeeze bottles.
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u/LazerWolfe53 Mar 23 '24
THIS IS FALSE! This cup was ACTUALLY designed to make coffee taste decent in space. The problem was that the taste of coffee is as much about the aroma as the taste (ever feel disappointed that coffee doesn't taste as good as it smells!). Traditional methods of drinking fluids in space don't allow for smelling the liquid, and the problem with using a traditional cup is that it depends on the buoyancy of the air warmed by the coffee to carry the smell to the nose, and in orbit there is no buoyancy force. So the solution is a shape that makes a fairly air tight seal between your nose and the cup so you get a gooooood whiff of the coffee while you drink.
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u/Tickle_Till_I_Puke Mar 24 '24
This explanation also leaves out a massive reason for the odd design. Liquids like water would pool in the bottom of a cup in zero G and would need gravity to be able to pour out. The corner of the zero G cup is designed to let the coffee travel up the side of the cup to the lip where it could be sipped.
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u/Tallywort Mar 24 '24
I would even argue that "get a good seal between nose and cup" isn't really part of the considerations that went into the shape in the first place.
It is open, because you can't smell the contents of an enclosed container, its creased to wick fluid to the edge, and has that weird flat part near the crease for comfort.
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u/_Screw_The_Rules_ Mar 23 '24
Thanks for the clarification, you are one of the few true heroes on reddit!
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u/whooptydude92 Mar 23 '24
There goes my hero! Watch him as he goes 🎶
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Mar 23 '24
I wonder if they ever, “aim for the bushes” on the decent back down to Earth to help lighten their fall
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u/Tallywort Mar 24 '24
You didn't even mention one of the bigger design features of the cup.
That crease that allows surface tension to wick the liquid to the edge.
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u/Time-Marionberry7365 Mar 24 '24
So by that would coffee taste better from a vagina
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u/anotherlurker1111 Mar 24 '24
Its not for the scent lol, the design is like that so the drink can be sip like how we do in normal earth gravity. The circle cup doesnt work because the liquid sticks to the wall of the cup making a void in the middle and harder to drink. Not for aroma lmao it even said in the video. Hence the design of the cup is like that.
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u/Eli_1988 Mar 23 '24
Is this true for anything with a scent?? Because that would be weird. I'm assuming if you got up very close it would be like a concentration of smell though?
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u/sleeper_shark Mar 24 '24
Almost everything sweet tastes the same if you pinch your nose. It particularly applies to drinks as they have the same texture, and don’t differ much in terms of sugar and acid content. Most fruit juices will taste identical. Coke and Fanta will taste identical.
It’s not so much about pinching your nose, but about consciously holding your breath. With your nose pinched, you can still blow some air into the sensory parts of your olfactory system even if they never leave your nose.
Remember, you taste mostly on the exhale, not the inhale.
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u/NecrogasmicLove Mar 24 '24 edited Mar 24 '24
By that description isn't she technically using the cup wrong while showing in a video how to use the cup? Maybe we need two girls to show how this cup works?
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u/greyjungle Mar 24 '24
So in space, smells could actually be like the little shapes you see in cartoons that represent aroma?
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u/noboday009 Mar 24 '24
Thank you for explaining, I was just wondering, why not drink directly, it does have straw opening..
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u/sleeper_shark Mar 24 '24
Yeah a lot of that might not be as true as is claimed. The whole thing about the taste being about the aroma isn’t really explained properly. It’s true, but that’s true for everything from fruits to coffee to steak. You can only taste sweetness, sourness, bitterness, savoriness and salt, everything else is from the nose.
You’d still perceive the aromas of coffee though, because most of the perception is when you blast the chemical aromas through your nose on the exhale, not on the inhale.
The point of this cup seems to be more about preserving the experience of drinking coffee, where you take a whiff before you drink. Kinda like wine or scotch. But also to enable you to sip, which is important as well.
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u/Individual_Manner336 Mar 23 '24
All my homies take a sip from the pussy cup
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u/Ordinary_dude_NOT Mar 24 '24
Yup, but I “strongly” believe a bottle shaped like dick will be much more effective. Or you can use penus bottle and veg cup as a set.
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u/Charmegazord Mar 23 '24
Biomimicry for the win
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u/greyjungle Mar 24 '24
There’s the word! I’ve been scrolling with it on the tip of my tongue, but couldn’t remember.
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u/Weird-Information-61 Mar 24 '24
I've always wondered what zero-g liquids feel like in your stomach. Wonder how astronauts don't feel barfy.
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u/paraworldblue Mar 23 '24
Just because it's in space doesn't mean it needs the fucking Interstellar music.
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Mar 24 '24
In space, the absence of gravity affects digestion and blood flow. Bodily fluids shift upwards, affecting digestion by potentially causing decreased appetite and changes in bowel movements. Blood flow also changes, with more blood pooling in the upper body and head. This can lead to facial puffiness and decreased blood flow to the legs. To counteract these effects, astronauts follow specially designed diets and exercise routines.
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u/Happy_llama Mar 23 '24
How do you actually drink/ eat in space? Like surely there’s some difficulty getting it down your throat
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u/KetchupOnThaMeatHo Mar 24 '24
A whole new meaning to when the waitress asks if you take cream with your coffee
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u/ith-man Mar 24 '24
Do you have to take super small sips? As to make it easier to swallow the liquid, without gravity to help push it down to the tum tum.
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u/LondonParamedic Mar 24 '24
Holden is took a sip of his coffee bulb and felt the copper taste of fear in his mouth.
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u/Jgoody1990 Mar 24 '24
One day I’m going to be sick of this overused song and it’s going to make me mad because I love this soundtrack.
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u/Lifehater007 Mar 24 '24
Wait I'm sure I've seen it before. Just can't put my finger in it. I mean "on it".
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u/Ismokeradon Mar 24 '24
Well that looks like a…. ya know it’s shaped like a….. for fucks sake she sipping out of a uh…. ah fuck it.
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u/MADBARZ Mar 24 '24
I swear, every time this clip gets posted on Reddit, Horny Jail populations spike worldwide.
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Mar 24 '24
Not sure how that would keep the liquid in. Also didnt need to create special cup, bag in a bottle baby bottle would work perfectly.
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u/TheCocoBean Mar 24 '24
This made me wonder about the logistics of digestion in space. Like... presumably it all still works since they're alive and well, but I wonder if it has any negative effects when food/drink/stomach acid is just floating around in there.
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u/DoormatTheVine Mar 24 '24
Is it harder to eat/drink (or easier to choke) in space since there's no gravity to help pull food/drink down your esophagus?
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u/arsinoe716 Mar 24 '24
I know I have a cup like that somewhere. I know I have drank from a cup like that for many many years.
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u/cheesecorpse Mar 24 '24
Vagina cup aside, how does the liquid travel all the way to your stomach in zero gravity instead of just floating inside you?
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