video: Engineering students at UC San Diego are studying the fluid dynamics of water in order to build a more comfortable and sanitary urine collection device for space travel. The mechanical and aerospace engineering undergraduates from the Jacobs School of Engineering mimicked the behavior of streams of human urine in zero gravity in order to collect the data necessary to make better space urinals for both women and men. Read more at: http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=852. view more
Credit: UC San Diego / Daniel Kane