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"It is impossible to wash clothes on board the ISS (International Space Station)! Quite simply, it would take too much water," said the Canadian Space Agency. "The astronauts therefore wear their clothes until they are too dirty and then throw them out. All ISS waste burns up in the atmosphere on re-entry."
For Chinese astronauts, that's the same case in space that the water is sacred.
"The most precious resource in orbit is water, and the way we save it is to recycle it," said Liu Weibo, deputy chief designer of astronaut systems of China's manned space project.
He said that the water in the space station will be contaminated by washing detergent or anything that come off human body, making it difficult to be purified again.
Not doing laundry in orbit is also based on cost assessment.
"Compared with washing clothes in space, a disposable clothing system proves to be much more cost efficient," said Liu. "That means changing new clothes and disposing used ones at regular time interval."
The most frequently changed are underwear, followed by gym clothes and socks. Working suits and formal dressed can be worn for over a month.
"We have set different time schedule for different clothing," Liu added.
HUGS: The Valhalla Apartments are having extensive renovations. I want to give a big hug and a huge thank you to all the workers of North Mountain Construction. They are friendly, efficient, helpful, and all-round great workers.
SLUGS: To the parents who are not raising kind humans. Maybe you should also give your kids more hugs so they don’t feel the need to lash out at others. Do better.
SLUGS: To the roach who stole my family’s clothing out of the laundromat’s lost and found. I forgot to unload and went back to get it out of the bin and all of it had been taken.
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Dear Amy: I’m confused about how to handle a family situation.
Amy Dickinson
I am a middle-aged, single woman, living alone. I work sporadically but have enough to live comfortably in between jobs.
I have a young relative who visits once or twice per month. I am always happy to see her.
Every time she visits, she brings a large amount of dirty laundry to wash, using my washer and dryer.
I have never had an issue with this in the past, as I remember what it was like to live in an apartment with no washer and dryer. She runs about 4 or 5 loads each visit.
One thing that is starting to annoy me however, is that in addition to using my machines, water and electricity, she also uses my detergent and dryer sheets.
She has a full-time job and travels, so I know that money is not the issue.
How hard would it be for her to buy a jug of pods and bring a few over with her?
I’m worried that if I say something, I’ll get branded as cheap. Should I just keep quiet and be glad to see her, laundry or not?
She jokes about the laundry issue, so she knows it’s a bit of a mooch.
Wondering Relative
Dear Wondering: You are a good egg. You accept these visits for what they are – an opportunity for you to provide a considerable service for your younger relative, while using the time together to develop something of a sudsy bond.
She is already joking about this, so she realizes that she is on the verge of an imposition.
Follow up by saying, “There’s a sale on laundry pods at the Dandy Mart. Why don’t you pick up a container of your favorite brand, and we can put your name on it for your own use while you’re here?”
Dear Amy: My mother and my brother keep bringing up trips they want to take with us.
I’ve been on trips with them before, and I’m never going to go again.
Both of them are prone to explosive meltdowns that are excruciating to be part of. I can handle them for a short evening, but that’s it. The idea of traveling with them is very stressful to me.
I also don’t want my 11-year-old daughter to have the stress of traveling with them.
I keep dodging their requests. My response is: “Go ahead and go by yourselves, and report back.” They are not taking the hint.
I see them about twice a month, and the pressure turns any visit with them into a nerve-wracking time for me.
I’m at the point of wanting to avoid them completely.
Telling them straight up that we’re not going to go a trip with them will cause of huge emotional episode, and even then, I don’t think it would sink in.
Any advice on how to have them get the message? Can we recover from this?
Passport Denied
Dear Denied: The way you are behaving (so far) is to avoid stating your own preferences, while you become increasingly annoyed by the consistent efforts of your family members to include you.
Now you are at the point where you are on the verge of avoiding not just the topic but the people raising the topic. That solves nothing.
These relatives might need you as a competent buffer of sorts because they’re so volatile, and that’s why they are pressuring you.
It’s possible that if you provide a consistent answer, they will eventually stop bothering you about it.
You can state your case without blaming these family members, thereby hoping to avoid a meltdown. You just say, “I don’t want to go. I haven’t had a good time in the past. But you two should go ahead.” Repeat as often as necessary.
Consider the fact that by staying home, you might be preserving the shreds of your relationship with these family members. If your declaration causes a meltdown, then take refuge in the fact that the meltdown isn’t happening in a far-away destination.
Dear Amy: Thank you for running so many questions from people facing dilemmas created by DNA testing.
I recently freaked out by discovering that my cousin is my half-sister. When I looked into it, I learned that this is a common issue. Reading the very fine print on the DNA testing contract, I saw that it is to be used “for entertainment purposes, only.”
Relieved
Dear Relieved: The cousin/half-sibling connection seems to be the most common source of confusion.
You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.
Lester, Iowa — A Lester man was both seen at a hospital and was taken to jail on a laundry list of charges after an accident at Lester on Thursday, June 24th, 2021.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office reports that they were advised of a hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Highway 9 and K30 in Lester. They say 51-year-old Korey Nelson of Lester was northbound on K30 in a silver 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan. They say 34-year-old Bruce McDowell Jr of Sioux Falls was westbound on Highway 9 in a 2019 International truck.
The report says Nelson attempted to cross Highway 9 and collided with McDowell. They say Nelson didn’t stop at the accident scene, but rather left the scene southbound on K30. Law enforcement located Nelson on A34 and attempted to stop him. They say Nelson attempted to elude law enforcement and drove to his home in Alvord, where they say Nelson was non-compliant and was taken into custody. He was transported to the Lyon County Jail and was charged with failure to yield upon entering a highway, violation of financial liability coverage (accident-related), leaving the scene of an accident, eluding, interference with official acts, and operating while intoxicated.
Nelson’s minivan was totaled in the collision and McDowells’ truck sustained minor nonreportable damage. Nelson received minor injuries and was later seen at Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital Avera in Rock Rapids.
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The Laundry Project encouraged those in need to share their dirty laundry on Thursday.
Residents of Jackson Heights were treated to quite the shock when they rolled up their dirty clothes to Laundrybee on 71-16 37th Avenue on June 24. Prepared for another slog at the local washateria, they instead found a group of smiling volunteers who offered to pay for both the cleaning and drying.
Maria Acuna and fellow volunteer Everett Apple. Photo by Dean Moses
Maria Acuna travels throughout the United States with fellow volunteers setting up free services that pay for unsuspecting launderette users to enjoy a free wash and dry in low-income neighborhoods.
This service is designed to not only relieve the financial burden that accumulates with heavy loads, but also to promote the good nature of humanity by aiding in what can be a menial and laborious task.
“Today for three hours anybody who comes in, we pay for their laundry, and we also provide soaps for them to use as well,” Acuna began, sharing her enthusiasm.
“I feel like it is a little light during all the craziness of the pandemic. And laundry can be so expensive, especially if it is for a big family,” Acuna added.
Acuna shares the good news to a customer that his laundry would be washed free of charge. Photo by Dean Moses
According to the Laundry Project, more than 170,000 loads of laundry have been washed for approximately 17,000 families in more than 600 projects nationwide.
As Queens locals began to trickle in, they were left shocked and thankful for the service, even rushing back home to grab more loads. A superintendent of a local apartment building swiftly spread the word, understanding that the service would be a vital one for many in the community.
Jesus Rodriguez said that this initiative is not only so helpful due to the financial alleviation, but also a great relief due to the time it saves.
Jesus Rodriguez was grateful for the Laundry Project’s help. Photo by Dean Moses
“I was walking by, and I saw it. I have three bags and I am rushing here there and everywhere,” Rodriguez told amNewYork Metro. “I don’t make much money so this is a big help.”
It is interactions like these that Acuna and her team say makes the whole experience worth it, and continues to inspire her.
Acuna pays for a customer’s laundry to be dried.Photo by Dean Moses
Laundry Project prefers not to promote their pop-up events beforehand, instead creating a series of happy accidents for the unaware.
“One time I had a lady come in with two shopping carts and had no idea that she was going to get her laundry done. When we told her, she started crying — it was a beautiful thing,” Acuna said. “She was with a lot of kids, and she said she was debating whether she should do her laundry or go out to eat.”
NASA is teaming up with the company that makes Tide laundry detergent to tackle a mundane problem in an extraordinary place: dirty clothes in space.
What astronauts do when their clothes get stinky might not be the kind of quandary that keeps Americans up at night, but right now those dirty duds are summarily blasted into space as trash destined to burn up as it reenters Earth’s atmosphere, reports Marcia Dunn for the Associated Press (AP). What’s more, clothes get gross pretty quickly in space because of the two-hour daily exercise regimen that space going humans must complete to stave off the bone and muscle loss caused by micro-gravity.
Leland Melvin, a former NASA astronaut and NFL player, tells the AP that this schedule has each astronaut throwing out their t-shirt, shorts and socks at the end of every week.
“After that, they’re deemed toxic,” Melvin tells the AP. “They like have a life of their own. They’re so stiff from all that sweat.”
Every crewed space mission must pack roughly 150 pounds of clothing per person per year, according to the AP. On longer missions, such as a trip to Mars with an expected three-year transit time, those hundreds of pounds of clean clothes come at the cost of scientific equipment or life sustaining air and water.
"When we’re finally going on future lunar or Martian missions, or one day when we’re even further out, we won’t be able to throw anything away. We’ll have to reuse everything," Melvin tells Neel V. Patel of the MIT Technology Review. "And I think that’s critical for exploration. Washing clothes would seem mundane, but it’s life. It’s a must-have for the future of exploration. Or we’re not going to have enough clothes to exercise and work out in and do our jobs."
Enter: Tide and its parent company Proctor and Gamble (P&G). The company’s collaboration with NASA will entail experiments testing various types of detergents and stain removers that will need to work with very little or no water, which has previously been deemed too precious for use on laundry, Reuters reports.
The first tests will take place on a 2022 cargo flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and will seek to evaluate the impacts of micro-gravity and radiation on the experimental detergent, per Reuters. The same experiments will be conducted in tandem back on Earth to compare results.
“Humanity has reached a pivotal point where on one hand, we’re on the exciting cusp of space colonization, and on the other, facing a critical period where action must be taken now to save the planet we all call home,” says Aga Orlik, a senior vice president at P&G North America Fabric Care, in a statement. “The collaboration with NASA and the ISS National Lab are particularly exciting because it allows us to push the bounds of resource efficiency to its absolute limit, uncovering learnings with practical applications for both the future of laundry in space and here on Earth.”
In addition to the detergents, P&G is also working on a washer-dryer unit designed to function on the moon or Mars and that cleans and dries clothes with tiny amounts of water and detergent, according to the AP. Needless to say, all the water used by such a system would also need to be re-filtered and re-used by the crew for cooking and drinking.
“The best solutions come from the most diverse teams,” Melvin tells the AP, “and how more diverse can you be than Tide and NASA?”
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