Who Has A $23,000,000 Toilet? | QI

[@julianevans9548]

Lee is so quick. 'Re-entry' was magnificent.

[@john.premose]

@@julianevans9548 all he did was repeat the word re-entry. Lee being quick is basically just a bandwagon, everybody thinks everything he says is quick witted. Call it the Lee Mack Effect.

[@julianevans9548]

@@john.premose Aye, that was the joke. Speed dating was pretty quick too. Plus, I - and so many others - have noticed how quick he is when watching him on other programmes.

[@john.premose]

@@julianevans9548 no, that wasn't the joke

[@ptur12345]

​@@john.premose Yes, it was.

[@julianevans9548]

@@john.premose It was a play on words: 're-entry' means re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. Lee was playfully insinuating that Sandi meant re-entering the person. Can't believe that needs to be explained to you. Lee Mack evidently has nothing on your comedy knowledge.

[@neilcauser5624]

I love how Lee let the facade down for a moment to go for a genuine intelligent answer, then quickly had to back track 😂 he's the same on WILTY, a very intelligent man pretending to be an idiot for a comedy character. He's one of my favourites!

[@frankster200]

Steadings

[@decodolly1535]

I already had an extensive list of reasons I will never become an astronaut but "there's a training potty with a camera" is definitely the clincher. No thank you!

[@ProfDanielVargas]

Well, and not the fact that you have to drink filtered waste water?

[@EebstertheGreat]

@@ProfDanielVargas The water is apparently tasteless. There are a lot of frustrations living in space, but nobody has cited that one as bothering them at all.

[@ProfDanielVargas]

@@EebstertheGreat I understand, I was meant to be half-joking but OK.

[@Tholdred]

I'm pretty sure the camera is only for you to see how to position yourself properly... I really don't think there's someone outside, giving you directions while staring at a 50'' screen with said camera live-streaming your potty attempt to the control room 😂

[@JonasHamill]

@@ProfDanielVargas I would hedge a bet that any water you've drank has at some point past through another being. I would expect that the filtered water waste would be sufficiently clean such that it's likely to be some of the cleanest water one could drink. Its the ISS, not Fyre Festival

[@Wraithbored]

Well that's 23 million down the toilet... I'll see myself out (the airlock)

[@colinhooper1933]

Basil Brush says: Boom-Boom (and you're not using my tail to clean that up)

[@georgebland485]

So many levels haha

[@usmapiper88]

Gives new meaning to the song "Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket.." 😳

[@Jesusexplains]

❤As quick as a wink, “Re-entry!?”

[@MitchCyan]

It’s not all glamour, being an astronaut.

[@tywco]

🎵When you wish upon a jettisoned bag of poop. 🎶

[@Leornianæfre]

I knew the answer to this before Series S XL aired a few years ago. The new coating is anti bacterial too. The tours of the International Space Station filmed by the commanders every now and again for the ESA. They are extremely fascinating and well worth watching. They do a complete fly through and explain every system in complete detail. This particular lavatory is in node 3 with the treadmill, gym and the Cupola. It’s shared by four astronauts. It’s one of the most vital systems on board the station as it’s one of two systems for water recycling. The other lavatory is in the older part of the Space Station share by the two cosmonauts.

[@panda4247]

Dunno why they were so disgusted about the idea of recycling the water. It's not like they drink the piss directly. Goes through a treatment process... What do they think we do here on earth with our waste? Goes to sewage treatment plants, then the water goes back to the rivers, and then we drink it again too...

[@bazpearce9993]

We're all drinking dinosaur pee, and our own of course.

[@DaveDexterMusic]

tbf we also have the natural water cycle, which adds an additional level of purification. it's not like we're drinking water straight from sewage plants or rivers. in fact, the idea that the water we drink comes from rivers is a massive simplification in any case (it doesn't all come from rivers, and in most cases is subject to additional treatment upon collection anyway) recycled drinking water in a tiny enclosed system is unequivocally recycled from recent bodily wastes, unlike drinking water in most places on earth, and despite it being obviously safe and potable in the former instance there remains the knowledge of its provenance absent from our own drinking water. hence disgust well you did ask

[@freewave04]

1:52 yesterday’s coffee is today’s coffee

[@jwolfe01234]

The Space Station actually has multiple toilets. The one featured here is on the U.S. Segment of the Station. The Russian Segment also has one. Each spacecraft also has facilities, but those are only used while the spacecraft are not attached to the Space Station. On one of the early Dragon missions, they discovered a leak in the waste system. Nothing entered the cabin and no critical systems were affected, but they had a bit of a mess to clean up.

[@MikeDuddy-q2t]

That Sunita Williams picture has taken on a whole new meaning.

[@Teladian2]

The Wolowitz solid waste redistribution system

[@TooLooze]

Of course, this came on during dinner...

[@Ulbre]

When I built my interstellar bamboo invisible spacecraft in my backyard I came in 23 million under budget and the also had built the toilet room way to big, so I ended up installing an indoor ski slope instead and we just added an old paint paint bucket to do the business.

[@pomerau]

No one is considering the cost of launching a toilet cleaner / attendant along with a "This Toilet is Temporariliy Closed " sign to dock at 9 pm and depart by 10 pm every day. (In recent months one genius decided it was better to leave that sign on board)

[@KittyAstrakan]

”Re-entry?!?” 😂

[@twocvbloke]

Imagine the intro to Vic & Bob's once popular show if it was "Shitting Stars"......... :P

[@massimookissed1023]

*_"What's in yer drawers, George Dawes ?!"_*

[@AbsolutelyAverage]

Now that's taking the pi55

[@onelegout]

When Sandi does a "posh" accent she sounds less posh than her actual accent

[@slake9727]

Her New York accent?

[@chrisso1029]

@@slake9727 I was shooketh when I heard her actual accent. Felt like my whole life was a lie.

[@danmayberry1185]

"Have you been speed dating before?"

[@gmdille]

Day 2,437 of asking QI to allow ANY type of subtitles. Even just allowing auto-generated ones would be a huge accessibility win. Please, elves!

[@PippaRilley]

Think. Think. Think. There B dam good reasons. 🥱🥱🥱

[@nicholascrow8133]

There's a saying on the ISS "Todays coffee is tomorrows coffee"

[@NewMessage]

If I pay 23 million, there's no way I'm sharing.

[@oldfartinthenight9201]

You say meteorites, I say coprolites, either, either, neither, neither, let's call the whole thing off.

[@doberski6855]

'Re-Entry!' 🤣 Yeah no sir, the astronauts are not expected to put it back in their bodies. Bad enough they have to drink that water!

[@mlee6050]

Unsure what show but this made me think of one where think they say freeze the number two and woman use it like an adult toy or something....

[@BuildinWings]

America has a toilet that's worth tens of billion each year. It's called Mississippi.

[@john.premose]

It's not worth that much

[@BuildinWings]

@@john.premose Meh. Debt has value.

[@deafeningoctopus]

My family always said 'bottom burps', so the first time I was ever asked if I had farted (In primary school) I said "I don't even know how!"

[@PaulSmith-pl7fo]

Despite often being offensive, everyone "bottom burps" (well, Sandi says she has had a bottom burp, but may be she has while sleeping!); medics says it occurs about 15 times a day on average in adults, and is a sign of a healthy digestion system.

[@terryhunt2659]

@@PaulSmith-pl7fo I think with some people it always just leaks out gradually, like a slow puncture on a car tyre. _Occasionally_ that happens to me, but most of the time there's a definite 'embouchure effect'.

[@grahamstubbs4962]

Everyone thinks being an astronaut is so cool. Try sitting on a training potty in Houston and looking suave.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@charlesb7019]

Sooooo…. Are the shooting poop stars different colors depending on what they have eaten that day???

[@glenn1534]

3:04 I'm a man...I think that's the same for me as well (and I assumed for everyone). Am I the weird one?

[@DonoVideoProductions]

Nope. Everything comes out at once. Anybody who can control it is way too anal retentive.

[@robbrandhoff3]

I was going to ask the same thing. I don't think I've ever not had at least a little tinkle if I didn't really have to pee at that time.

[@lhei_tayuun]

Because bodily processes are continuous, everyone almost always has a little something in the bladder. Defecation involves a lot of muscles, some of which put pressure on the bladder and encourage urination. Men are better set up structurally to control flow from the bladder; it's part of the ammunition-swapping mechanism, so to speak. It's also why men are generally better able to hold it, and in greater volumes. As a guy, if I felt the urge to do both and I attempted to defecate, it would generally be both; I could consciously avoid voiding my bladder at the same time, but I can't really think of a situation where that was necessary, and I probably only know that I can because... I just wanted to try one time, I guess. In my defense, I knew it was theoretically possible because dropping the kids off at the pool shortly after strangling Shai-Hulud didn't always imply opening a lemonade stand, even if i was fully stocked on lemon juice. So to speak~

[@skirmisheruk]

Why wouldn't you just pee first? Then its easy

[@bazpearce9993]

You're not alone. A pee usually signifies that I'm done round the back.

[@lazylad8544]

Re entry. I wondered what into😳

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Most of that cost is in installing it in space. The rocket costs that much, not the toilet

[@EebstertheGreat]

No, none of that is launch or installation or anything else NASA did with it. That's the cost just to design, make, and deliver the toilet to NASA. Well, almost. Technically, NASA awarded a $26,424,533 contract to Raytheon for _two_ of these toilets. Only one has been installed so far, but the price tag covers both and (with some additional funding) perhaps more. Most of the money is for the design, not the construction. Packing, launching, and installing the toilet costs a lot as well, but not _that_ much. The typical cost to launch something to the ISS is $20,000/kg, and each toilet weighs around 45 kg (which is less than the older ones), so to launch both you're looking at around $1,800,000.

[@plwadodveeefdv]

​@@EebstertheGreatbargain

[@safebox36]

Today I learned people urinate at the same time they defecate. For me there's a 30 minute delay between the two and now I think I need to visit a doctor...

[@janedmunds4218]

Trumping is perfect 😄🇺🇲

[@nunyanunya4147]

good to know that you can wish on more shooting stars now days... but in the end surely your wishes are just shit.

[@Harambae613]

1:45 Jo's sarcasm is the best part of this clip.

[@kramsc1]

In Australia we have a toilet worth 1.1 billion dollars, it's called Parliament House. All the sh!t goes there.

[@ptur12345]

The audio is nice and clear in this clip. Usually the audience/laugh track is at least as loud as the people talking, which is really quite irritating. Can't always make out what the panel members are saying.

[@michaelocyoung]

Partly because there was no audience as this was filmed during COVID. Any reactions in the background are from various crew members.

[@paddotk]

"Up there, a bag of shit... Make a wish"

[@Doctor180185]

Why do people get so disgusted when they hear about recycling waste matter? It’s what we do on Earth! Water we drink from the tap has already been through a number of people.

[@KackieJennedy]

How old is this clip? "Season S" means absolutely nothing to me. What year was this episode aired?

[@SilverEye91]

September 2021.

[@michaelocyoung]

@@SilverEye91 Indeed. Hence the relative lack of audience (I think only a few of the crew were present to provide "laughter") and why the're sitting ever so slightly further away from each other than normal.

[@lhei_tayuun]

My family went with "foof."

[@charliebryer2802]

What do they think their local water treatment works do?

[@UphillGardener-ly5sh]

Everyone cringing at drinking the recycled water, what do they think we all drink?

[@seanwilliams4087]

When you wish upon a shart ...

[@davidregehr2687]

Shifting stars

[@kilroy987]

Wow, drinking water is that hard to provide huh?

[@Yiseia]

Did anyone watch the meteor shower a few days ago...?

[@alanshand829]

And at no point did Lee Mack say "Sh*tting stars" which was the first thing that popped into y head

[@slake9727]

$23 million and installed by Howard Wolowitz.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

barking spiders

[@digabledoug]

The waste becomes shitting stars.....I'll see myself out.

[@ConfidentialMeerkat]

So that's why it's called a holy shit! 🤔

[@moldgrim1]

Must be an outer space thing.

[@moldgrim1]

And I was right :D

[@NewMessage]

Shooting stars, sh*tting stars... to-may-to, to-mah-to...

[@darthmarticusLFC]

Men too right? I thought everyone pissed when having a shit. Hence the old fable - all poopoo time is peepee time, but not all peepee time is poopoo time

[@crazylizard1889]

What does Maisie think tap water is?

[@mphays]

I hope it's dinosaur pee and not warthog wiz. Yep, there's nothing more refreshing than a nice cool glass of Triceratops tinkle.

[@BigSteve_Gaming187]

The basement smell you get from having items downstairs for a length of time. Our house calls them "Basement Farts". This smells like basement farts.... lol

[@RichardJRussell]

Sounds more like shitting stars

[@mirthenary]

Not shooting stars...SHITTing stars💩☄️

[@keeperofthecheese]

Damn this show has gone downhill...

[@paultopping7413]

Apparently the Americans spent millions trying to develop a pen that would work in space but the Russians just used a pencil...... Not sure if that's true but it sounds about right!

[@jamesrasmussen9281]

That was so there wouldn't be any fine graphite filings floating around in zero-G and short circuiting all their instruments. The money spent on the development of that pen ended up saving them even more.

[@andrasszabo1570]

That was an old joke from the 70s which has nothing to do with reality.

[@massimookissed1023]

Stephen Fry debunked that on QI. Apparently the Americans just used an ordinary ball-point pen.

[@john.premose]

Speed dating? Lee Mack 1.0 needs a reference update pretty badly.

[@AlbatrossRevenue]

"Speed dating" and "pick up line" are two of Lee's most classic interjections. Normally I'd get tired of a comedian pulling the same gag over and over, but with Lee almost every time I genuinely don't see it coming.

[@john.premose]

@AlbatrossRevenue he repeats himself a lot and he uses a lot of stock phrases, basically inserting them at the right time. After watching him a lot I can see how he operates. I'm not saying it's not effective though but he's not the huge genius so many people make him out to be.

[@AlbatrossRevenue]

​​@@john.premose I agree. I wouldn't call him a genius. But he is very quick. As you said, he's great at timing. It's evident he knew what he was good at and he honed it.