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Design Toilets For A Scifi Passenger Liner


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Scenario: Scifi space vessel can do 1g up to 3g max for 6 months. It is also an SSTO. How it works is otherwise irrelavent to the discussion.

Capacity: 125 passengers, including a small flight crew of ten, which includes a pilot, co-pilot, flight attendants, and handymen to fix stuff passengers break. Which brings the  non-crew passenger total to 115.

 

Main Question: Although ship will spend thrust under 1g, on occasion it will land on low gravity bodies like the moon, mars etc. Orbiting is avoided except for short periods.

Since gravity will vary, what toilet is best so customers won't cry foul on space twitter and stop flying on my space liner?

Bidets? A traditional flushing toilet? What about toilet paper? Waterless non flushing toilet using suction?

 

What would make customers happy while not making a mess?

 

I imagine a flushing toliet like on an airliner could work since airliner toilets are vacuum based. Which is why they seem uber compared to flush toilets.

 

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If you have gravity all the time except some short times something like an airplane toilet would work just fine even down to .3 g I think, probably lower too, you might want to close the lid before flushing but pretty sure the aircraft toilet uses air pressure and the water is mostly to clean the sides. 

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