Chinese taikonaut food has been expanding over the years, they are able to eat various types of dishes up there. I find it hard to believe they don't have systems and procedures in place to deal with smells.
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Those food they are eating right now don't have special smell to 90% of Chinese population. Most people wouldn't even be aware of the smell of them.
For example, at least 80% people in China eat pork. None of these people would even smell pork in their home or from their cloth. A Muslim would smell it. While I can smell the presence of goat meat, raw or cocked. It won't be pleasant for anyone locked up in a confined space for half year.
The issue is not about whether there is smell, there is always. It is the "unpleasant" smell. All smell stays, good or bad relatively speaking, people live with the good ones and try to get rid of the bad ones.
I don't see why it is hard to believe the lack of system. Floating water in the space station is dangerous and there is no specific system to catch the water balls flying everywhere once escaped.
The only effective procedure is not doing it (except during event like intentional space class). In the same manner the effective procedure of keeping smell away is not eating specific food. It isn't a food that majority of Chinese eat anyway.
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China has started construction of its first commerical spacecraft launch site in Wenchang, Hainan.
It is expected to open for business in the first half year of 2024. The project is funded by the Hainan province government, CASC, CASIC, and China Satellite Network Group Co., Ltd.
It is expected to open for business in the first half year of 2024. The project is funded by the Hainan province government, CASC, CASIC, and China Satellite Network Group Co., Ltd.
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A team from USTC made a major breakthrough in making Coherent Doppler LiDAR for wind field measurement (相干测风激光雷达). At the space resolution of 3 meters and time resolution of 0.1 second, their system has the highest resolution among all the published results in the world. The measurement accuracy is 0.5m/s comparing to the calibration equipment in verifications.
The scientists tested the prototype device for 100 hours non-stop and autonomously to measure the wind field in wake vortices of HSR trains running at 350km/h. Thanks to its high resolution, the Kaman vortex street in the wind field detected by the device matches highly to the simulation result of aerodynamic computation (计算流体力学模拟结果).
The team worked out a set of optimal components, including the laser source, optical tx-rx system, high speed data sampling circuit and the data processing algorithms. They developed a new inversion algorithm (反演算法) that greatly improves the accuracy and robustness of wind field inversion (风场反演). The final result is a complete indigenous prototype ready for production.
The prototype device weighs about 40kg and uses the laser at the wave length of 1550.1nm which is safe to human eyes.
A team from USTC made a major breakthrough in making Coherent Doppler LiDAR for wind field measurement (相干测风激光雷达). At the space resolution of 3 meters and time resolution of 0.1 second, their system has the highest resolution among all the published results in the world. The measurement accuracy is 0.5m/s comparing to the calibration equipment in verifications.
The scientists tested the prototype device for 100 hours non-stop and autonomously to measure the wind field in wake vortices of HSR trains running at 350km/h. Thanks to its high resolution, the Kaman vortex street in the wind field detected by the device matches highly to the simulation result of aerodynamic computation (计算流体力学模拟结果).
The team worked out a set of optimal components, including the laser source, optical tx-rx system, high speed data sampling circuit and the data processing algorithms. They developed a new inversion algorithm (反演算法) that greatly improves the accuracy and robustness of wind field inversion (风场反演). The final result is a complete indigenous prototype ready for production.
The prototype device weighs about 40kg and uses the laser at the wave length of 1550.1nm which is safe to human eyes.
If this is mounted on a satellite it could possibly detect the disturbance that aircraft make in the air.
Nobody is going to punish you for asking a question.
But I wonder if you know that durian (any smelly thing including stinky tofu) is not even allowed to be brought aboard passenger aircraft nor passenger train (air sealed HSR as far as I know), why would CNSA allow it in the space station?
CNSA isn't exactly your average public transportation agency, and from the reporting to now the food seems to be chosen via surveys done by prospective crew. If there is demand for it they can likely accomodate, it isn't quite the same as fresh homemade cooking, they can process and package in a way to prevent or mitigate smells from escaping the pouches they eat out of. There is no problem with Sichuan cuisine abroad the station after all.Nobody is going to punish you for asking a question.
Not sure how practical it would be to handle any soup-based food items up there. I reckon cold noodles are probably fine.Do these instant luo shi fen have that unique, and frankly, quite distinguishable smell of the original ? If so is there a way to get ride of the smell in space ? I had the same question when I first saw the toilets on ISS as well many years back
So unless they can settle for sucking the noodles from a pouch or a tube, and risk choking from it, it'd most likely be off the menu.
I believe they have Yuxiang Pork and Kung Pao Chicken on the menu, which do have pretty strong 'aromas'. While I'm sure to any Chinese those dishes would be far from unpleasant, the smells do linger for a long time... at least in my case whenever I have them to go from my local Chinese joint, from the moment I open up the container to long after I've finished I would still smell it in the house... Not quite the scent I would necessarily choose to fragrance my room haha.Those food they are eating right now don't have special smell to 90% of Chinese population. Most people wouldn't even be aware of the smell of them.
For example, at least 80% people in China eat pork. None of these people would even smell pork in their home or from their cloth. A Muslim would smell it. While I can smell the presence of goat meat, raw or cocked. It won't be pleasant for anyone locked up in a confined space for half year.
The issue is not about whether there is smell, there is always. It is the "unpleasant" smell. All smell stays, good or bad relatively speaking, people live with the good ones and try to get rid of the bad ones.
I don't see why it is hard to believe the lack of system. Floating water in the space station is dangerous and there is no specific system to catch the water balls flying everywhere once escaped.
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