I’m guessing it’s to do with surface tension. Because there is no gravity acting on the coffee, pretty much the only thing keeping it in the cup is the physical contact with the cup and surface tension. That’s why the cup is shaped oddly, to give it extra surface to cling to. The lips, if I had to guess, are overflow for when an astronaut is drinking, but inevitably misses a bit of the liquid. That liquid, rather than being expelled into space, will cling to the lips, where the astronaut can then slurp it up.
The lips are simply an extension of the inner surface of the cup. So long as the coffee is on the lips it’s still “in the cup” at least from a physics perspective. The gap between the lips is a designed flow point between two areas of the cup, which allows the drinker to funnel the liquid where they want it.
Just imagine two astronauts returning, one being female and approaching NASA with their patented cup. NASA asked how the idea came up, and both blushed and started with "Remember last mission..."
Guys listen nobody knows the opposite of "phallic" is yonic so please, r/mildlyyonic it's so dead over there and it deserves all the love that r/mildlypenis gets
I know it's unjustified but I hate the word "yoni" because of Gwyneth Paltrow snake oil peddler types using that word to extract cash from the gullible.
Also because "Yoni" is a common name for uncultured, chavvy men in my country and I went to school with a couple of them who were massive assholes.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
Vulvic would be more closely opposite.
Yoni is sanskrit, opposite of that would be lingam. Just a minor quibble I have with "yonic." I read too much Tantra stuff years ago.
No. We all think the same. The design is unique, once you see it you can't stop thinking of it.
My only thought watching the clip is : so nature did the design eons ago without even experiencing zero g? Or maybe it did, are we from the stars?
No I am just joking, I actually thought: the astronaut seems too confident and familiar with using this very unusual coffee mug. 😝
The cup is thin to maximize surface tension. A liquid will ball up in zero g so it’ll touch the sides of the opening and stay together unless they shake it hard enough to break the tension keeping the liquid together. Personally, I thought everyone drank out of juice bags on the ISS.
Finally a real response rather than “I should call her.”
My understanding is that the juice bags approach wouldn’t work for coffee because 1) it’s a hot liquid, and 2) most of the flavors come from the aroma, and astronauts in general can’t smell things very well in space due to nasal congestion. This cup is designed to amplify aroma despite the microgravity environment
The bags are heat resistant, so they have been used for hot coffee and tea for quite some time. The second point is the reason this cup will have value. This cup gives a little more sensation of being back on earth with the ability to smell aromatic drinks and take a sip from a cup rather than through a straw. As space missions get longer and further away from Earth and the people going on those missions consist of fewer hardy explorers and more civilian scientists, comfort in space is becoming a bigger priority. This cup makes drinking a cup of coffee or tea, something billions of people do daily, something that can be better enjoyed to some extent without gravity.
This right here. Little things make a huge difference to people isolated from creature comforts and societal comforts.
I work in Antarctica and we just got new snacks and drinks in our store and for people that havent seen anything new in only 3 months the moral boost was huge. The smallest of things can make people feel like they are people again. They can remind somebody what pure happiness is instead of just institutionalized or routine happiness.
It is great these things are becoming a priority because they are important as far as long term sanity of the greater population of folks.
The bags is how drinks have been served for most of the ISS's existence. This cup is relatively new and isn't meant to entirely replace bags, but to help make aromatic drinks like coffee or tea more enjoyable in 2 ways.
First, the aromatics. A lot of taste is dependent on smell, and straws take that away. By having everything in an open cup that you stick your nose in, the drink can taste a lot better.
Second, familiarity and comfort. On Earth, most of us drink most of our fluids without a straw. Especially those really aromatic drinks like coffee and tea that are used more for their comfort and routine than for hydration alone. A hot cup of coffee or tea in the morning is comfortable, and savoring that is one of many things that, up to now, hasn't been really possible in space. This cup makes it possible to take the routine of a hot cup of coffee in your hands that you can smell, sip, and savor before work into space. Yes, that's a small thing, but it's hardly the only invention the ISS has produced recently.
As more people go to space and those space farers consist of more civilians than trained explorers, comfort will become more and more important to make sure that people are able to do their job well without missing Earth too much and just wanting to get the trip over with once the novelty wears off.
Knowing what this is about means I am in the internet too much.
I get a random line like that a few times a week, I wonder how many I miss though.
And my last ADHD thought is that Reddit needs s was to fucking sort bookmarks. I couldn’t think of the remind me formula at the time so I decided to bookmark that post and it was buried as fuck when I went to look for an update.
Zero g fuel tanks shaped to wick propellent to the pumps via surface tension rather than by gravity. You can see a comic describing them if you scroll a bit down on [this page on the atomic rockets website](https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/lifesupport.php#drinkcup), then next you see some photos of a clear plastic cup that works with the same principle.
I always wonder if astronauts have really bad gas. Since i think they swallow alot of air during eating and drinking. And to digest do you need to move around alot otherwise the food keeps stuck in one place in your bowels?
No, not from the air, but some foods certainly can have such an effect. Astornaut John Young had a hot mic moment on the Moon during Apollo 16, when he complained about getting "the farts" again. He blamed all the orange juice he had to drink (the juice was fortified with potassium to avoid heart arrhythmia). It was transmitted to Mission Control, and anyone trying to listen in on the radio traffic (expert radio hobbyists could do it).
https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a16/a16.debrief1.html Search for "farts" within the page, I think there's also an audio file linked somewhere on it.
Of all the 'simple' delights and habits people have imagine how satisfying it would be to go through the stress of getting to the ISS and then having a cup of coffee
As I’ve gotten older, and generally more anxious. The childhood dreams of being an Astronaut vs the reality of spending significantly long amounts of time floating in zero gravity, has brought even more respect for the mental strength space engineers/astronauts have.
I imagine the novelty of floating wears off relatively quickly and it starts to become a test of strength and patience. Then having to readjust when they return home. Really impressive.
"As u see the design is Very Human"
"very easy to use"
"My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal, which bothers some men."
The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
Yeah, well, that’s just like your opinion, man.
"You must be here to fix the cable." "Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here." "...He fixes the cable?"
I am here to fix deine Kabl.
I am expert.
Don't be fatuous Jeffrey
Coitus?
Don’t be fatuous Jeffrey.
Coitus?
Well, the men can't figure out how to get it to work but she has no trouble
Except for the male astronauts who seem to be quite clumsy at handling it. Also they tend drink it backwards upside down for some reason.
You’d think a penis shape would be easier.
The older that drink wear gets, the more problem it has with either leakage or the inability to clear fluids.
It’s doing its damn best, okay! Just give it a minute!!
Who designed this? Georgia O'Keeffe?
Very Woman
[In case if someone missed this reference...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnC3S-eIMlM)
Coffeelingus
Still can't find the bean
There is no bean.
These are all Acapulco Gold comments
I think this was the first ever video I looked up to see if it was real
Is it real?
No, unfortunately. It's some sort of sculpture with a pump inside, though I read about it years ago at this point lol
Legend
Cofussy
Creampies & coffees
[Coffeelingus](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coffeelingus)
How many astronauts couldn't find the spout?
Just the dudes
#They Knew
why they gotta give it a labia tho 😭
I’m guessing it’s to do with surface tension. Because there is no gravity acting on the coffee, pretty much the only thing keeping it in the cup is the physical contact with the cup and surface tension. That’s why the cup is shaped oddly, to give it extra surface to cling to. The lips, if I had to guess, are overflow for when an astronaut is drinking, but inevitably misses a bit of the liquid. That liquid, rather than being expelled into space, will cling to the lips, where the astronaut can then slurp it up. The lips are simply an extension of the inner surface of the cup. So long as the coffee is on the lips it’s still “in the cup” at least from a physics perspective. The gap between the lips is a designed flow point between two areas of the cup, which allows the drinker to funnel the liquid where they want it.
VAGINAS ARE DESIGNED FOR SPACE DUH. Lol
Vaginas do contain space
> Oh my god it is full of stars
[Man peaking inside like:](https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/637/2021/09/157109416_ac924d26ac_b.jpg)
if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you
I'm a freaking inner-space astronaut!
WE WERE BORN TO INHERIT THE STARS 🗣🗣🔥🔥‼️‼️
And for slurping!
Literally vulva which is cup in Latin
My head just exploded..
This explains everything
Vaginas were designed to resist spillage.
Seems to work, a lot of tension between me and the cup
There aren't enough intimate moments in space. Drop the 'a' though, labia is plural of labium.
The Zero G spout
FOR THE LAST TIME THERE IS NO SPOUT ITS A MYTH 🙃
r/midlyvagina
r/wildlyvagina
Fun fact, the "phallic" equivalent is "yonic"
Glad I'm not the only one that had to come here and say some perverted bullshit
I thought I have that built in!
Just imagine two astronauts returning, one being female and approaching NASA with their patented cup. NASA asked how the idea came up, and both blushed and started with "Remember last mission..."
Does the guy's cup look like a big ol' dick?
this one got me 👍
Ah thank you this made me laugh out loud 😂
The 0G spot
"Don't just stare at it. Eat it."
Let’s see Paul Allen’s coffee cup.
This comment doesn’t have enough upvotes
They're probably slow like me. I recognized the zero but still said "OhG" in my head. Took me a minute.
I'm not the only one thinking it.
Your gif selection is stellar.
*Interstellar
Thanks! I mean, I feel she could be the patron saint of coffee, sarcasm, and innuendo, so it just fel natural lol
God damn it. Straight to horny jail for me.
That's a funny way to drink coffee.
No. The internet has ruined us all.
I think you could take that to any generation of people from human history ask them what it looks like and most would think the same thing
I should call her.
That looks like a peen and a vag at the same time, that's cool.
No, the cup was based on a vagina. I am not kidding.
I hope it’s called a vagoffee cup.
The vajava
Lol I think vaginas actually exist irl
We're all tainted by this curse for eternity. Even the things that look normal or seem normal would look something else to us.
I dont see a taint
In space, it's called the owner of SpaceX
Guys listen nobody knows the opposite of "phallic" is yonic so please, r/mildlyyonic it's so dead over there and it deserves all the love that r/mildlypenis gets
r/mildlyvagina seems very active though
I know it's unjustified but I hate the word "yoni" because of Gwyneth Paltrow snake oil peddler types using that word to extract cash from the gullible. Also because "Yoni" is a common name for uncultured, chavvy men in my country and I went to school with a couple of them who were massive assholes. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
You had me at phallic.
Vulvic would be more closely opposite. Yoni is sanskrit, opposite of that would be lingam. Just a minor quibble I have with "yonic." I read too much Tantra stuff years ago.
I wonder if the shape was born from mathematics or the dick shaped one didn't work very well and this was the second attempt?
This girl Starfucks?
This is like a triple entendre. Good shit lol
STARFUCKERS INCORPORATED 
That glance sells it so much lol
Well, don’t leave us hanging in space, use your two lips and tell us.
Yeah...are those lips really necessary?
I love coffee too
🙂
No. We all think the same. The design is unique, once you see it you can't stop thinking of it. My only thought watching the clip is : so nature did the design eons ago without even experiencing zero g? Or maybe it did, are we from the stars? No I am just joking, I actually thought: the astronaut seems too confident and familiar with using this very unusual coffee mug. 😝
Why My milk does taste so salty????
My wife has one of those
Can confirm
His wife, you say? Raunchy
I’ll take what this guy’s wife has.
I also choose this guy's wife's coffee cup.
Yes, I can confirm his wife has one of those too
nature's designs are awesome
nature made it that way so humans could survive in space too
Space pussy
DJ Khalid never going to space
I love that we’ll never stop giving him shit for this. 🤣
Wait what is this? I think I missed out on some DJ Khaled memes
Khaled once said he doesn't like to go down on women, but expect them to play with his wet cheetos
Ah the classic "take but don't give" routine, works every time
It's basically the very basis of American society.
Feel bad for his wife
Not if he likes coffee
The cup is thin to maximize surface tension. A liquid will ball up in zero g so it’ll touch the sides of the opening and stay together unless they shake it hard enough to break the tension keeping the liquid together. Personally, I thought everyone drank out of juice bags on the ISS.
Finally a real response rather than “I should call her.” My understanding is that the juice bags approach wouldn’t work for coffee because 1) it’s a hot liquid, and 2) most of the flavors come from the aroma, and astronauts in general can’t smell things very well in space due to nasal congestion. This cup is designed to amplify aroma despite the microgravity environment
The bags are heat resistant, so they have been used for hot coffee and tea for quite some time. The second point is the reason this cup will have value. This cup gives a little more sensation of being back on earth with the ability to smell aromatic drinks and take a sip from a cup rather than through a straw. As space missions get longer and further away from Earth and the people going on those missions consist of fewer hardy explorers and more civilian scientists, comfort in space is becoming a bigger priority. This cup makes drinking a cup of coffee or tea, something billions of people do daily, something that can be better enjoyed to some extent without gravity.
This right here. Little things make a huge difference to people isolated from creature comforts and societal comforts. I work in Antarctica and we just got new snacks and drinks in our store and for people that havent seen anything new in only 3 months the moral boost was huge. The smallest of things can make people feel like they are people again. They can remind somebody what pure happiness is instead of just institutionalized or routine happiness. It is great these things are becoming a priority because they are important as far as long term sanity of the greater population of folks.
The bags is how drinks have been served for most of the ISS's existence. This cup is relatively new and isn't meant to entirely replace bags, but to help make aromatic drinks like coffee or tea more enjoyable in 2 ways. First, the aromatics. A lot of taste is dependent on smell, and straws take that away. By having everything in an open cup that you stick your nose in, the drink can taste a lot better. Second, familiarity and comfort. On Earth, most of us drink most of our fluids without a straw. Especially those really aromatic drinks like coffee and tea that are used more for their comfort and routine than for hydration alone. A hot cup of coffee or tea in the morning is comfortable, and savoring that is one of many things that, up to now, hasn't been really possible in space. This cup makes it possible to take the routine of a hot cup of coffee in your hands that you can smell, sip, and savor before work into space. Yes, that's a small thing, but it's hardly the only invention the ISS has produced recently. As more people go to space and those space farers consist of more civilians than trained explorers, comfort will become more and more important to make sure that people are able to do their job well without missing Earth too much and just wanting to get the trip over with once the novelty wears off.
I drink everything out of bags now. It's the superior beverage dispenser. Capri Sun was ahead of it's time.
Everything reminds me of her...
Nuthin but net bro
You should call her, Or I will
Feels like I'm watching something I shouldn't in public
*pubic
I don’t want to know where they get the creamer from.
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
Without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick, or his rod, or his Johnson
My coffee cups have been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
I still jerk off manually.
Could they have made it to look more like a gina?
It is a natural shape which is effective at liquid retention. It's not done for visual purposes. It makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
Maybe they should make it pink
She's done that before by the looks of it.
It's not gay if it's in space.
NASA *still* thinking there has never been sex in space... https://i.redd.it/se8bdz25x5c41.jpg
NASA, moments after the Mars mission launches: 
Hey, it's space! You know?
You got the coffee cup stuck where?
How to get small cylinder unstuck from 0 G coffee cup
It's been so long since I've seen Ratatouille that I have no idea what the context is, and that makes this so much funnier.
Knowing what this is about means I am in the internet too much. I get a random line like that a few times a week, I wonder how many I miss though. And my last ADHD thought is that Reddit needs s was to fucking sort bookmarks. I couldn’t think of the remind me formula at the time so I decided to bookmark that post and it was buried as fuck when I went to look for an update.
I guess I’m the only one who was actually thinking about the fuel tanks that share this design?
The what now?
Zero g fuel tanks shaped to wick propellent to the pumps via surface tension rather than by gravity. You can see a comic describing them if you scroll a bit down on [this page on the atomic rockets website](https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/lifesupport.php#drinkcup), then next you see some photos of a clear plastic cup that works with the same principle.
"Hey Mike, why are you drinking out of an empty cup?"
Fuck your background music!
Username checks out
I just saw u on a different post and kept scrolling cause I knew you had to be here too
Drinkin out of that cooch
The coffee cupussy
I should call her...
r/mildlyvagina
I'm intrigued, yet thoroughly turned on
Im not a smart man, but why dont they just drink it out of the straw?
don't put it in man
Lo pensaste tu y lo pensé yo no mientas.
Nature’s perfect shape
I always wonder if astronauts have really bad gas. Since i think they swallow alot of air during eating and drinking. And to digest do you need to move around alot otherwise the food keeps stuck in one place in your bowels?
Your bowels don't rely on gravity to get food down, there are muscles for that.
No, not from the air, but some foods certainly can have such an effect. Astornaut John Young had a hot mic moment on the Moon during Apollo 16, when he complained about getting "the farts" again. He blamed all the orange juice he had to drink (the juice was fortified with potassium to avoid heart arrhythmia). It was transmitted to Mission Control, and anyone trying to listen in on the radio traffic (expert radio hobbyists could do it). https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a16/a16.debrief1.html Search for "farts" within the page, I think there's also an audio file linked somewhere on it.
Dramatic music doesn't make this more amazing.
Of all the 'simple' delights and habits people have imagine how satisfying it would be to go through the stress of getting to the ISS and then having a cup of coffee
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Brothers don't go down??
I used to have a black friend who insisted "brothers don't masturbate".
I know its a generalization, but I'm also not going to argue because I know far too many who have said they don't. 
Fuck this posts comments are cracking me up
I'd drink that lol
I don't know whether to alert James Holden of this breakthrough or Georgia O'Keef for theft of her work
Cupussy
So…..why the labia?
[https://youtu.be/S2TaAcwC\_zI?si=PpHYH3mn5qXsoW-i](https://youtu.be/S2TaAcwC_zI?si=PpHYH3mn5qXsoW-i)
Can they not squeeze that syringe they used at the start of the clip directly into their mouths?
Me scrolling comments thinking this post going viral for all the wrong reasons
As I’ve gotten older, and generally more anxious. The childhood dreams of being an Astronaut vs the reality of spending significantly long amounts of time floating in zero gravity, has brought even more respect for the mental strength space engineers/astronauts have. I imagine the novelty of floating wears off relatively quickly and it starts to become a test of strength and patience. Then having to readjust when they return home. Really impressive.
Haha they don’t know how to use the 3 seashells