Jeff Bezos doesn't want his Blue Origin passengers to poop or pee in space

[TexasTowelie]

Blue Origin owner (and Amazon CEO) Jeff Bezos has a message for wannabe space tourists: Hold it until you land!

Speaking to a crowd at a conference in Colorado Springs, Bezos said that the trip on his company's New Shepard tourist spacecraft will be so quick that urinating and defecating won't be an issue, according to Space.com.

“Go to the bathroom in advance,” Bezos said, in a quote highlighted by Gizmodo. “The whole thing, from boarding until you’re back on the ground, is probably 40 or 41 minutes. So you’re going to be fine. You could dehydrate ever so slightly if you have a weak bladder.”

While 41 minutes doesn't seem like too long to hold it — especially with a tech billionaire warning you to use the facilities ahead of time like an earnest dad on I-95 — space travel comes with some stresses that can make it difficult to keep bodily functions under control.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Jeff-Bezos-doesn-t-want-his-Blue-Origin-11069084.php

[Warpy]

1. Well, there's the catheter and leg back plus the diaper

which would be more effective than being told to hold it, especially if a pressure suit is part of the experience. Bezos needs to realize that we're animals and that body functions don't always respond to commands from a CEO, not even him.

Besides, he should be more concerned with rich joyriders puking up their complimentary cocktails as they experience weightlessness for the first time.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Alan Shepard suffered interminable pad delays and peed in his suit before his suborbital flight

"New Shepard", indeed.