On Feb 7, 12:40 pm, wrote:
This NASA gal drives 900 miles in diapers so she wouldn't have to
stop...er, OK...what the hell is she driving, a gas tanker...with a
REALLY good gas gauge? Eh, maybe she's just stupid...

Your comment appreciated...stuff the links,
R

When we were kids, my dad was a B52 tail gunner, and he had this
military-issue pee bottle that he would bring along on long road trips
for us kids. It was a plastic bottle with a push button valve on the
top so you could seal it and it wouldn't leak. Certainly something
essential when you were hanging off the back of a bomber at 35000
feet, but not so much when you are driving down the highway passing
rest area after rest area. However, I knew enough then to realize that
he was just immersed in his military technologies, so having something
like that along wasn't weird to him at all....probably he even felt it
was kinda cool to be able to avoid stopping.

I suppose that this astronaut lady lives in the same type of
headspace; astronaut training is likely so immersive that to her,
wearing a diaper is a fairly normal thing to do when piloting the
shuttle, and she probably thought it a bit clever to transfer it over
to everyday use.

That being said, I still think she sounds a bit high maintenance.

--riverman