The Capillary Cup is a zero-gravity cup designed by NASA astronaut Donald Pettit on the International Space Station. The product is an open drinking cup designed to be used in a microgravity environment, developed from Pettit’s desire to drink water without a bag and straw in outer space.
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Rather the other way around. If it can keep a baby inside for nine months it can probably hold some coffee.
I’m sure the 60ish comments are all going to be about how it looks like a vulva, and there won’t even be a single comment that doesn’t reference the fact that it looks like a vulva
Edit: exactly two top-level comments in this thread don’t directly reference the fact that it looks like a vulva
Somewhat ironic that you contribute to that metric with this very comment!
Sometimes you gotta get your shoes dirty when you’re counting turds or something, I’m too tired to say something smart right now
Does it come in a softer material?
All joking aside, does it work under normal earth gravity?
Well it’s a cup. So I assume so.
I don’t get how you’re supposed to drink out of it in zero g though as tilting it wouldn’t do anything. In the image he hasn’t perpet which sort of defeats the purpose.
I read through a couple of articles on it, and the design is rather smart. To my understanding of the fluid dynamics involved, the liquid in the cup basically sticks to the sides the the inside of the cup, there’s a thin valley like channel that leads up towards the mouth piece. That valley encourages the liquid to travel up to the mouthpiece by capillary action. The mouthpiece holds the liquid in place by expanding outward rapidly from where the channel ends (this is the flange part that looks naughty as everyone has been joking about).
So the drinking action would be to bring the mouthpiece to your lips, and once you make contact the capillary action and surface contact leads the liquid into your mouth.
The liquid would move rather slowly compared to terrestrial allegories of the same, but if you’re only drinking a few sips of coffee or something it shouldn’t be significantly different.
I’m sure this would work in the normal method in earth gravity, but because of the strong gravitational force, I’ve come to conclude that the capillary action of the cup would be massively countered by gravity and it would not function in the same manner on earth. The microgravity environment, IMO, is critical to have for the physics for the liquid flow work as intended.
Why not use a sippy cup like a toddler uses? They have these ones with little plastic membranes on top, that when you apply a bit of pressure open up and release the liquid at that point.
Because there’s no upsidedown in space. A sippy cup works by using gravity, you have to turn the cup upsidedown to get the liquid to go to the sippy spout so you can suck it out. In outer space the liquid would just be floating free inside the sippy cup and not near the spout for you to suck it out.
And then there is the moment you realize a real pussy doesn’t taste like coffee.
I need to speak with the wife, I have… ideas
FYI internal body temperature is 37℃ and coffee tastes best when at that temperature.
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