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The Capillary Cup is a zero-gravity cup designed by NASA astronaut Donald Pettit on the International Space Station. The product is an open drinking cup designed to be used in a microgravity environment, developed from Pettit’s desire to drink water without a bag and straw in outer space.

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[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Somewhat ironic that you contribute to that metric with this very comment!

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes you gotta get your shoes dirty when you're counting turds or something, I'm too tired to say something smart right now

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Brand new sentence

Sorry, had to. That's Southern gold.