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  1. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    A Dr. Courtney W. Shropshire, writing in 1912, was impressed to note that by means of "a special prostatic applicator, well lubricated, attached to the vibrator, introduced to the rectum" he was "able to empty the seminal vesicles of their secretions." Indeedy.
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  2. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    In retrospect, it was silly to think that the experience of traveling in space could be approximated by a repurposed walk-in freezer. To find out what would happen to a man alone in the cosmos, at some point you just had to lob one up there."
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  3. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    A four-person crew will, over the course of three years, generate somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand pounds of feces. In the ominous words of sixties space nutritionist Emil Mrak, "The possibility of reuse must be considered." Sometime
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  4. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    You may be wondering: Could Ella Fitzgerald explode your liver? She could not.
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  5. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much normalcy can people forgo? For how long, and what does it do to them?
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  6. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    YOU NEVER THINK about the weight of your organs inside you. Your heart is a half-pound clapper hanging off the end of your aorta. Your arms burden your shoulders like buckets on a yoke. The colon uses the uterus as a beanbag chair. Even the weight of your hair imparts a sensation on your scalp. In weightlessness, all this disappears. You organs float inside your torso.* The result is a subtle physical euphoria, an indescribable sense of being freed from something you did not realize was there.
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  7. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    Weightlessness is like heroin, or how I imagine heroin must be. You try it once, and when it's over, all you can think about is how much you want to do it again. But apparently the thrill wears off.
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  8. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    A meteoroid is a bit of debris, usually planetary, hurtling through the solar system. If it's bigger than a boulder, than it's an asteroid. If any part of a meteroid makes it to Earth intact rather than burning up as it barrels through Earth's atmosphere, then it's a meteorite. A meteoroid's visible path through the atmosphere is a meteor. An astronaut struck by a meteoroid is a goner. A meteroid the size of a tomato seed can pierce a space suit.
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  9. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    During weightlessness, many of the letters strayed from the boxes, indicating that pilots might experience difficulties maneuvering their planes and doing crossword puzzles during air battles. The following
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  10. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    {The Soviet space agency did not traditionally give cosmonauts steak and eggs before launch; it gave them a one-liter enema.} Fahey,
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  11. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    We had no problems, no conflicts," Mars500 Commander Sergei Ryazansky is saying.
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  12. Mary Roach _ Packing for Mars: The Curious

    Space Shuttle toilets have always been mounted on the floor, but you would not call them normal. The original shuttle toilet bowl featured a set of 1,200 rpm Waring blender blades positioned a brief 6 inches below the sitter's anatomy. The macerator would pulp the feces and tissue-meaning, if all went well, the paper, not the scrotal, variety-and fling it to the sides of a holding tank.
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