Randolph “… When can you send a plumber?”
I normally don’t do toilet humour, but this one is begging to be lampooned. Excuse the pun.
The toilet (only one?) on the International Space Station is broken, apparently with a “bypass” to deal with “liquid waste”. “Solid waste” isn’t a problem, apparently. They even have “special bags” to collect urine. If it were an African in Space (a la Mark Shuttleworth), he would have rigged up something out of an old Coke bottle and a hole in the side – i.e. pressure differential, also known as an air-assisted pump.
I wonder who’s paying the bill for sending up a space shuttle to change a toilet pump. I heard those things are dangerous. Shuttles, not toilet pumps, although from personal experience, the latter can be quite deadly too.