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I don't know if this is true, but I'm certainly going to repeat it as fact.
Well allow me to fix some mistakes. they can't poo normally, really, or it's rather hard. peristalsis probably works differently too, although it doesn't rely on gravity per se.
Anyway, first off, it's not 0 g, it's "microgravity", because technically if we're being pedantic, there's nowhere in the universe where there's literally zero G as it's kinda everywhere, but even less so for the people on the space station, they just happen to be in synchronous freefall with the station, indefinitely, which basically is the same as no gravity subjectively, but anyway.
They poop into walls nowadays, and apparently, no need for any manual helping. But @Flax_vert@feddit.uk there isn't honestly completely wrong, even if he meant it as a joke. I don't know how much you know about this, Flax, but here's where you hit home:
I wish you hadn’t... But thanks. lol
It was enlightening. However, I assure you I'll only remember that astronauts dig into their bootyholes to scoop their poops.
don't forget about the stuff you add to stop the poo bag from assploding. It's important.
That's the bit only I remembered too
I believe the technical term is "ass-plode"