How is it Possible?

[Caped Crusader]

I know this sounds like a pretty weird question, but I've been wanting to know the answer for quite some time. Well, here it is: since the JL Watchtower is in space, how is it possible for it to have plumbing? Like I said, weird question, but does anyone have a logical answer?

[Maxie Zeus]

To answer a question with a question: Why wouldn't it be possible to have plumbing on the Watchtower? I mean, I assume they have plumbing on the international space station which is orbiting up there in real life, rather than asking the astronauts to "hold it" for 8 or 10 months at a time. ;)

[Web Head]

Well, the Watchtower probably has storage tanks for human waste like most commercial jets. What they do when the tanks get full, I don't know.

[Anubis C. Soundwave]

They jettisson the super crap into deep space along with the White Invaders they defeated in Secret Origins. Duh.

[Nightwing]

lol! Well I remember from seeing Apollo 13 a few years back, if their way out in deep space (not the case here though of course) I think they just jettison it. And I'm assuming with space stations, they might have enough room to store it until they get back to Earth. Just an uneducated guess though.

Hey, half the League probably doesn't even go to the bathroom for all we know. ;)

[Squall]

The International Space Station, Mir, and even the US Space Shuttles have plumbing. Plumbing doens't require gravity, just water (and suction, if you're in space -- sitting on the toilet in space is like sitting on a vacuum cleaner!).

My question is -- how do they generate artificial gravity? JL members in the Watchtower obviously aren't floating around inside the Watchtower. I would assume that, since JL takes place far enough ahead in the future that we could send astronauts to Mars, that in this "Universe" we may have discovered how to generate gravity on space vessels by then, a-la Star Trek.

Another interesting note: Remember in Batman Beyond's "The Call" when Superman tells Batman (Terry McGuiness) that there is technology that only the JL (er, JLU) has access to? :)

[Ed Liu]

Howdy all,


Originally posted by Nightwing
[B]Hey, half the League probably doesn't even go to the bathroom for all we know. ;)

Never let it be said that I passed up an opportunity for bathroom humor =8^).

- Superman: The real problem is that he occasionally causes, ah, structural integrity problems, especially after eating spicy Thai food.

- Wonder Woman: "What a strange question. Why would anybody know how they can hold it?"

- Batman: "2 days, 14 hours, 11 minutes. You'd be surprised why."

- Green Lantern: Four words: "Green Plasma Porta Potty."

- Flash: The bad news is that all the coffee he drinks means he has to pee about 52 times a day. The good news is that he can do it so fast, he can go in the middle of a conversation and you'd never know it. Actually, he's taken about 2,173 bathroom breaks throughout the eps of JL we've seen so far, but we just never saw any of them.

- J'onn J'onzz: You don't want to know. You REALLY don't want to know. Let's just say that those blue trunks he's wearing aren't just for modesty.

- Hawkgirl: She's actually normal, but the real problem is that she keeps doing it on the statues in the trophy room. She also has a nasty habit of ejecting the, um, leftovers onto passing spacecraft.

Read this quick, before a mod deletes it...

-- Ed/Ace

[Spider]

How about reconstitution or protein resequencing? Does this technology even exist in this (or in another animated) series at this time?

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Ace the Bathound
Read this quick, before a mod deletes it...

Naw, I think this goes in the Hall of Fame someplace. :D

[Manhunter]

Originally posted by Ace the Bathound

- Batman: "2 days, 14 hours, 11 minutes. You'd be surprised why."


I knew Batman was anal-retentive,but... :D

[Sugar Daddy]

Originally posted by Squall


My question is -- how do they generate artificial gravity?

Anyone who knows how to explain this better...but now, in 9th grade, I have to take Conceptual Physics, and we just learned about this. It seems that the Watchtower is simulating Earth's gravitational forces, because they walk on the ground, they don't float. To do this, it must be spinning around its own axis, which creates artificial gravity. That's a compact answer, because that's all I can remember and I don't have my notes or book with me because I am on spring break(:D). Hope I helped

[Spaceman Spiff]

Origanlly posted by Sugar Daddy

Anyone who knows how to explain this better...but now, in 9th grade, I have to take Conceptual Physics, and we just learned about this. It seems that the Watchtower is simulating Earth's gravitational forces, because they walk on the ground, they don't float. To do this, it must be spinning around its own axis, which creates artificial gravity. That's a compact answer, because that's all I can remember and I don't have my notes or book with me because I am on spring break(). Hope I helped

They can't be using centrifugal force, because then they'd be standing on the outer walls. So it's some sort of super technology :rolleyes: