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submitted 3 months ago bymysterious_saloon01
5.6k points
3 months ago
The Surface tension of the coffee in relation to the acute angle causes the fluid to 'climb' up the length of the acute angled side of the cup. This happens because the pressure experienced by a liquid is equal to the surface tension/the radius of the liquid. The radius is reduced due to the small angle of the cup; therefore, the pressure is greater and the fluid 'climbs'.
983 points
3 months ago
You’re the real space hero.
626 points
3 months ago
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96 points
3 months ago
Great design! Where'd you get the inspiration? It's been on my mind forever
32 points
3 months ago
Where'd you get the inspiration?
Reminds me of a vajayjay
11 points
3 months ago
Yes, but such a thing of beauty this cup. You simply must tell us where you got the inspiration.
3 points
3 months ago
Same with the vajayjay, but there’s no one to ask about inspiration without Darwin around
351 points
3 months ago*
TIL vaginas will hold coffee in zero gravity
Edit: My first award thanks
35 points
3 months ago
Enjoy your vagoffee
41 points
3 months ago
Gives new meaning to creamer
6 points
3 months ago
You made me actually lol while I was at work, thank you, Bguidry23.
89 points
3 months ago
Yea that’s pretty much all I got from this video, but makes sense that vag shapes essentially suc n keep things in
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Well that cup says otherwise for the shape dunno about girls 😂
24 points
3 months ago
I guess we’ll just have to find out for ourselves. I’ll put on a pot…
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3 months ago
9 points
3 months ago
It's giving me serious menstrual cup vibes.
3 points
3 months ago
I have looked at 2 whole women from afar in my life and I can confirmed that this is true.
19 points
3 months ago
Glad I'm not the only one that thought this was some sort of space age alien impregnation station
16 points
3 months ago
The design is very human
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3 months ago
Very easy to use.
25 points
3 months ago
A real human bean
8 points
3 months ago
And a real hero
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
IGetThatReference.gif
72 points
3 months ago
Someone can translate this for peasants like me?
176 points
3 months ago*
You know how water drops tend to bead up instead of just being completely flat? That's because water molecules like to be surrounded by other water molecules (or generally, liquids like to stick to similar liquids). Being on the surface means that they're less surrounded by other water molecules. So water tends to want to minimize as much surface area as possible (by being a spherical shape) because they don't want to be on the surface. Gravity flattens it a bit to prevent it from being a perfect sphere. But in space, water becomes a sphere.
Anyway, in this case, to minimize its surface area, the coffee wants to go to the smaller area where it's least exposed to the air. Not having gravity makes it easier for it to do so.
34 points
3 months ago
Thanks for the explanation.
7 points
3 months ago
But in addition, the OP’s name is earned and confirmed.
54 points
3 months ago
When you drink coffee on Earth, gravity pulls it down into the bottom of the cup. But in space, there is no gravity to do that. So, if you tried to drink coffee in space, it would just float around in blobs.
To fix this problem, scientists designed a special cup that can hold coffee in space. The cup has a unique shape that helps keep the coffee from floating away. It's sort of like a regular cup, but instead of having straight sides, it has a pointy shape that angles inward.
When the coffee is poured into the cup, something called surface tension kicks in. Surface tension is like a skin that forms on the top of the coffee. This skin helps hold the coffee in place. The shape of the cup makes this skin stronger, so the coffee stays put, even without gravity pulling it down.
The reason the shape of the cup makes the skin stronger has to do with something called pressure. Pressure is the force that pushes things around. When you pour coffee into a regular cup, the sides are pretty straight, so the pressure is spread out evenly. But in the special cup, the sides are angled, so the pressure is greater in one area. This makes the skin of the coffee stronger, which helps hold it in place.
There you go.
7 points
3 months ago
What pulls it down through your digestion in zero gravity?
22 points
3 months ago
The same thing that pulls it down when you’re doing a keg stand: peristalsis. Then the sphincter at the top of the stomach keeps it there.
6 points
3 months ago
Parastaltic action
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3 months ago
I see, thanks for the explanation.
9 points
3 months ago
Coffee stay in cup, cup good
7 points
3 months ago
Liquid stick together Liquid also stick to small crack Suck on small crack, get liquid in your mouth
35 points
3 months ago
Magic.. Since it's sufficiently advanced technology.
14 points
3 months ago
Sufficient? Like the space pen? I say coffee in a bag with straw and call it a day. I can’t imagine how much money is spent designing this cup.
21 points
3 months ago
It’s likely a physiological thing. If you take a moment to consider that they’re stuck in a series of narrow hallways without any of the forces were used to to keep you grounded it quickly becomes apparent how that kind of environment could do very well with some kind of grounding. Even using the restroom or washing yourself is a large task because of the lack of all of the forces we take for granted.
9 points
3 months ago
Yeah I imagine eating and drinking out of what looks like colostomy bags will get depressing after a while.
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3 months ago
"grounding". I see what you did there!
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3 months ago*
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3 months ago
Maby 6 or 9 dollars
10 points
3 months ago
The psychology of astronauts is something to be cared for over functionality alone. There is considerable comfort in being able to sip a cup of coffee or eat out.
665 points
3 months ago
It is interesting that the design team essentially ended up with a design that looks considerably like a vagina.
376 points
3 months ago
and again we see, natures design is perfect anyway.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Squid
75 points
3 months ago
The likelihood of that thing ending up on the lips of a redditor looks considerably like a vagina’s.
62 points
3 months ago
It reminds me that I like my women like I like my coffee, frothing on my upper lip.
13 points
3 months ago
And that reminds me that I like my women how I like my coffee - without someone else's dick in it.
15 points
3 months ago
Oh come on, we know you actually take you coffee black from Stephen at Starbucks.
10 points
3 months ago
I do like my coffee black, but then I fill it up with cream myself
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3 months ago
Easiest way to “eat out” in space
30 points
3 months ago
The Vagina is the interior segment prior to the cervix.
That my friend looks like a Vulva. specifically with labia Majora.
17 points
3 months ago
Came here to hear that
16 points
3 months ago
You're a cute angle
Boom gottem
5 points
3 months ago
Thank you.
149 points
3 months ago
The way 0g affects people's faces always cracks me up
34 points
3 months ago
It always looks like they are on the toilet having a really fierce bowel movement
14 points
3 months ago
Does zero gravity affect digestion at all?
I'd assume the stomach contents would also be floating around the stomach and since it's not really seating at the bottom, is the absorption of nutrients and the contents in general affected in a relevant way?
15 points
3 months ago
That's a very interesting question! The short answer is, I don't know
5 points
3 months ago
I replied to your comment in hopes that someone else would know about this too haha
I've always wondered about this but never really asked the question
22 points
3 months ago
Explain
70 points
3 months ago
Their faces are puffy due to nowhere for the blood to drain to and their eyes sort of bulge out a little bit, and the back of their eyes get flatter due to the low pressure so I'm assuming it's why they blink a lot
13 points
3 months ago
Me (an autist): there's something atypical looking about this?
706 points
3 months ago
I love drinking coffee from my plastic space vagina
15 points
3 months ago
No idea why but I read this sentence and immediately thought "unhackable computer passphrase".
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3 months ago*
Why are you in space drinking coffee from that plastic vagina?
I just love being here in space drinking coffee out of my plastic vagina!
5 points
3 months ago
That sounds like a feverdream but it actually sounds kinda fun
7 points
3 months ago
As long as its coffee i would drink even from a belly button shaped device!
3 points
3 months ago
You got robbed bro, a bot stole your comment and got over 500 upvotes
2k points
3 months ago
If get one, but I'd never find the bit where the liquid comes out.
132 points
3 months ago
The liquid comes out a different hole.
70 points
3 months ago
There's more than one down there??
40 points
3 months ago
Like 6 or something
586 points
3 months ago
I'm sure she would be disappointed.
66 points
3 months ago
Use a straw?
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3 months ago
For hot coffee?
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3 months ago*
They actually did use straws for coffee before this on the ISS. I’m reading Mark Scott Kelly’s book Endurance and he mentioned it.
7 points
3 months ago
That is interesting. I’d assume they’re designed specifically for the job like this coffee cup?
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3 months ago*
This cup is rather new, they got an espresso machine about 5 years ago when this was filmed. Prior they drank coffee out of a plastic bag they had to inject with hot water and use a straw
Edit: Also found this article from a coffee company that manufactures the freeze dried coffee
Imagine doing your job every morning without coffee. Nothing would get done, and you'd be an angry, irritable mess. Well, astronauts are no different. So they do what they have to do—they drink freeze-dried coffee through a straw in a sealed plastic bag. That's what led Death Wish Coffee to create an instant blend of freeze-dried coffee to send to the International Space Station.
8 points
3 months ago
Figured you’d appreciate this. I was just looking for a bag of coffee, but this video is actually how the coffee cup in OP was designed. It’s an interview with the guy. And there is a bag in the video so you can see that too!
3 points
3 months ago
This was great, should make this a top comment!
18 points
3 months ago
The ole Snatch-a-Joe… The Vajavanator…
13 points
3 months ago
The Vajavanator actually goes super hard ngl
10 points
3 months ago
Understood
11 points
3 months ago
I’ve never even met a cup that has the part where the coffee comes out… I think it’s a myth bro
37 points
3 months ago
hahaha for real
7 points
3 months ago
Fight off G-forces while you search for the G-spot. This thing markets itself.
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3 months ago
OP, that’s a vagina. Pretty fitting for a sub dedicated to thinking “how does that thing work?”
192 points
3 months ago
I have one and I’m still sorting that out
64 points
3 months ago
Where did you buy it? Seller may have instructions
16 points
3 months ago
Technically, the dad's swimmers choose the sex. Would that make the father the seller? Makes sense why even the owners are confused. You know that guy didn't use the instructions.
5 points
3 months ago
new science shows that the ovum chooses the sex. it's not a race to see which sperm gets there first. instead the ovum sits surrounded, and does a chemical barrier thing to allow one in. this was on reddit but i can't find the link now sorry
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3 months ago
You're talking about cryptic female choice.
Cryptic here refers to mechanisms that are hidden from the male, that allows the female to consciously or unconsciously accept or reject the mate. It is an umbrella term, and can refer to physical or chemical process, across different species, that manipulates whether the sperm from a mate (1) reaches the ovum alive, (2) reaches the ovum alive, (3) fuses with the ovum or dies, or (4) successfully becomes a viable fetus after fusing
Here, you're referring to (3), and while yes the ovum can choose sperm based on the phenotype of the sperm (Heck, it can sometimes reject sperm from one man but accept sperm of another man because the sperm from the first man just ain't right for the ovum - even though it might be OK for the ovum of another female),
I don't know if that actively affects the resulting fetus's sex. What you're insinuating is that the sperm expresses different properties (phenotypes) depending on whether it got the X part or the Y part of the sex-pair during meiosis in the balls.
This now brings another question because typically it's a consensus that the properties of sperm fitness are mainly determined by the diploid cell before the splitting happens, which means that the resulting haploid sperm cells (one X and one Y) will both have similar fitness and phenotypes that the eggs cannot decisively discriminate
But there are also research that shows that haploid genotype might also influence the phenotype of sperms. It can, and it is proven, but I don't know to what extend it happens in real life and to what extend the resulting phenotypes defer between a sperm cell with X and a sperm cell with Y from the same pair of balls
So I'd be careful to say that the female ovum has a significant role in determining the resulting sex of the fetus by selectively choosing which sperm is allowed into it's selectively permeable membrane and which get straight up spermicided
for me, id say the significance in the difference in phenotypes of sperm cells are more pronounced and relevant among different loads of jizz. So this will affect which creampie from which corresponding male gets to impregnate the eggs, or may determine which time of the dsy/month/year/season/health will the creampie succeed for the male, assuming ceteris paribus
28 points
3 months ago
Does this mean that vaginas evolved to keep fluids contained even in zero gravity?
10 points
3 months ago
This is proof that we come from aliens.
/s
5 points
3 months ago
I had to scroll too far down to find this comment, I don’t know why, vaginas are fucking awesome, the greatest invention after the sandwich.
18 points
3 months ago
Me: It looks like a white....cut
Indian officer: Vijay! Stop staring and get back to work.
Vijay: But sir, it looks just like a....
5 points
3 months ago
Looking forward to the new Austin Powers.
6 points
3 months ago
it looks just like a....
Food vendor: Kebab! Get your fresh, hot kebabs right here.
Customer: I'll take one please. Holy shit, is that a..
226 points
3 months ago
It's crazy how much engineering can go into making a simple coffee cup. Space travel is amazing in every aspect, particularly the contributions it makes to every day life.
38 points
3 months ago
We are as good at Space Travel as we are at Time Travel. Unless you count the place where they are camped out as travel since it seems to travel around and around.
17 points
3 months ago
Unironically accurate even with the idea that orbiting is considered travel, because we do have experience with time travel, just not in any significant amount or any useful direction. People in orbit are time traveling in a sense, and I’d say just as much as they as space traveling lol
4 points
3 months ago
Space camping
8 points
3 months ago
Wait till you learn about their watch
Miracle of engineering, worth less than shit on earth
7 points
3 months ago
What is it, a sun dial?
7 points
3 months ago
Omega speedmaster moonwatch?
Miracle of engineering, yes.
Worth less than shit on earth, ehhh they sell for 3-20k
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3 months ago
298 points
3 months ago
As long as there isn’t coffee in it, it might be okay for me to put my dick in that
123 points
3 months ago
actually. what is sex like in space?
has that been tested?
i volunteer as tribute to science
106 points
3 months ago
I've heard NASA astronauts are told not to have sex to stop liquids getting anywhere.
81 points
3 months ago
A married couple have been to space together. They definitely got it on.
102 points
3 months ago
I doubt the married couple were the first.
There must have been a couple singles up there at some point. You know they’d do it. Who wouldn’t want to be the first people ever to have sex in space?
75 points
3 months ago
One small step for man, one giant thrust for mankind
40 points
3 months ago
Hopefully several
25 points
3 months ago
Depends on the excitement
14 points
3 months ago
You’re expecting a lot out of me…
12 points
3 months ago
Hey everyone, it's me, the wet blanket everyone enjoys at parties! Just dripping in to say that we might be underestimating the discipline and surveillance astronauts must endure. While the temptation of being 'first' may be great, I am personally skeptical that someone capable of arriving aboard a space station would lack the discipline to avoid potentially fatal equipment failures.
Alright, I'm off to ruin Brendan Fraser's 11th consecutive day of Academy Award parties! Bye!
6 points
3 months ago
When nasa told astronauts to make the cable management in the station better, they effectively said 'come up here and do it yourself.' point is, they're in outer space. Surveillance is entirely irrelevant because no one on the ground can make them do anything, really.
Also, more importantly, people get horny. Horny overwhelms a ton. You should instead of thinking they have the discipline to not, think that they have the discipline to stay quiet about it, and careful, as to not damage anything
5 points
3 months ago
First space sex was probably 2 dudes.
rightWingHeadsExplode
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3 months ago
I refuse to believe that there wasn't a separate arms race to be the first person to fuck in space.
27 points
3 months ago
Isn't that why they previously scheduled an all female crew - to discourage astronauts from banging each other? (Doubt that stopped them)
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Well when you nut it push you backwards
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3 months ago
what is sex like in space?
Bujold says 4-armed for extra ergonomics.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Too late, there's no way several nasa scientists haven't already
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3 months ago
Cootermug
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3 months ago
Came here for this
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3 months ago
No pun intended
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3 months ago
I'm surprised this was down so far
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3 months ago
Came here to see how far down this comment would be. Was not disappointed.
8 points
3 months ago
Why not, she’s cute?!
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3 months ago
Designed in a labia
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3 months ago
Made of fine vachina
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3 months ago
Made by Alotta Fagina
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3 months ago
Serving only the finest space nectars.
29 points
3 months ago
I swear, someone could make a fortune selling this to the public. The Cup of Astronauts...
8 points
3 months ago
Its a Tang revival.
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3 months ago
Poon Tang
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3 months ago
Came here looking for 3d print files, found a bunch of horny redditors 😳😂
3 points
3 months ago
Same, just want the printer files.
21 points
3 months ago
Even though it's safe, based on her expression, she is still careful with everything. A trained astronaut for sure.
14 points
3 months ago
I noticed this too. I love how professional astronauts are. They're like the modern-day version of my romantic notion of knights: well-trained, experts in their field but always devoted to improving without neglecting related skills, advocating and championing for their field, and at all times comporting themselves with dignity, and just generally being chill.
A strange analogy perhaps, but I just think they're such great role models.
127 points
3 months ago
I should call her
10 points
3 months ago
Lol thanks for the laugh. I was looking for this comment and for the “everything reminds me of her” comment.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
We can put a rover on Mars, but nobody can figure out your disaster of a life.
Still love you though!
15 points
3 months ago
Now I sort of wish I could see more information about how water and food and the like actually manages to get through the BODY in space; I hadn't thought about it before now.
7 points
3 months ago
Now I’m wondering about how bad acid reflux is in space
5 points
3 months ago
I'd assume mostly the same as on the surface. All liquids in aware of are actively transported through the body. Yes the blood circulation system works best in gravity and with muscle exercise, but it is not essentially dependent on it.
38 points
3 months ago
That's so dope. Looks so alien.
115 points
3 months ago
Funny, I thought it looked pretty familiar.
62 points
3 months ago
Well, it is alien to me. I'll do you a favor and post myself on r/suicidebywords.
13 points
3 months ago
A self burn.. those are rare 😅
11 points
3 months ago
Sir you’re on reddit
8 points
3 months ago
Alien vagina
9 points
3 months ago
Why don't they just use a thermos with a cap?
25 points
3 months ago
The hard part isn't getting the coffee to stay in the cup, it's getting it to flow to your mouth. The sharp part of this cup acts almost like a straw so that as you drink, the rest of the coffee is pulled towards your mouth. If you used a normal cup shape, you could drink a small bit but the rest of the coffee would stay still so you would have to "rearrange" the coffee between each sip
6 points
3 months ago
This cup was designed by friends of mine at Portland State University, Drew Wollman and Mark Weislogel in collaboration with astronauts on the ISS.
7 points
3 months ago
See, Mom! All those "pathetically misshapen" mugs I made you in art class were really just designed for zero gravity.
12 points
3 months ago
The Expanse drink bulbs are real. Woohoo
3 points
3 months ago
Yep. The Expanse was the first thing that popped in my head. Reading about the drinking bulbs.
12 points
3 months ago
That’s some Georgia Okeefe cup right there.
5 points
3 months ago
How does it go down the throat? Also, is all the contents in a persons stomach just floating in zero g inside ?
6 points
3 months ago
You can actually swallow standing on your head!
We and lots of other animals can do it because it allows us to drink while standing and flee easily!
6 points
3 months ago
I'm now realizing my acid reflux would make my space experience a living hell
4 points
3 months ago
My five year old would still spill it
3 points
3 months ago
I love the fact that it's a ceramic mug with that extremely specific geometry- not only did they design it exactly for that purpose but they had it made in ceramic too just so that it still felt like drinking coffee
3 points
3 months ago
I just realized eating in 0 gravity...would it float in your stomach with your stomach acid? How do you shit the shit would float too
3 points
3 months ago
I'd love to go to space just to fuck around with zero gravity for a bit. I'm definitely kicked off the space station 🤣
3 points
3 months ago
There are a surprising amount of objects and living things in this world that look like labia. Humans have been copying the intelligent design of evolution for centuries.
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3 months ago
“Coffee always floating out of your cup while you soar through the vast nothingness of space? Well worry no more. That’s right… It’s the VagiCup! No more sailing through the cabin trying to gobble up your coffee blobs. Those little liquidy bubbles of caffeine-infused goodness will stay right where you want them: In your new VagiCup! Order one VagiCup now and you’ll get a second VagiCup totally free! That’s right, you’ll be toasting the morning science experiment with your closest astronaut - or cosmonaut - for just $19.99!”
6 points
3 months ago
Fuck that’s hot 💦 🐚 ☠️
6 points
3 months ago
That's why the baby doesn't come out - until it says it's ready.
8 points
3 months ago
I'm pretty sure that's not correct.
6 points
3 months ago
Anybody elses first thought was vagina cup
2 points
3 months ago
Any cup can hold coffee in space.
This one’s just good at it.
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