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Post by dodgesuperbee on Jun 26, 2007 14:08:32 GMT -5
Maybe there was no room for a potty on the trailer and maybe Mack stops at a gas station for him to use the bathroom....its possible! XD I hadn't thought of that...good thinking! We all know those bathrooms on buses and RVs aren't that great anyway, so maybe he does have to make "pit stops" while traveling. Plus a toilet in an open-room style trailer might stink!
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Post by pookydoc on Jun 26, 2007 14:51:25 GMT -5
LOL i agree..especially if your a biiig car XD perhaps cars don't have to crap as much as we do XD
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Post by dodgesuperbee on Jul 19, 2007 12:02:58 GMT -5
Sorta icky thoughts, but...
The cars probably don't have to process gasoline/diesel into solid or liquid waste, just like our vehicles. If they did, they'd have to have a spectacularly effective sewage-processing plant to get all the toxins out of the waste, or they'd kill everything in the environment when they dumped the treated water/sludge into waterways or on land. My theory is that they only need to process organic food that they consume, and go for an oil change every now and then. The gas and organic food probably all goes to their stomach, where the gas is burned off and the food digested. Just my two cents...
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Post by dynamicequilibrium on Sept 8, 2007 15:59:15 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that all fluids can travel through the mouth for bodily use. Gas is more efficient to put directly into the tank through the nozzle, though- since it doesn't need to travel as far. Their body temps would range from about the peak engine temp (like 90 or 100 C) to the engine-off temp. Because, their motors aren't always on.
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Post by dodgesuperbee on Jan 4, 2008 0:12:43 GMT -5
Larry, four, came out of the bathroom and announced, completely out of the blue, "I know how cars wipe their bums after going to the bathroom -- they use their tires!" Then he laughed and went back to playing, but I couldn't stop laughing. Even preschoolers think of these debate topics, they just can't type well enough to post them on messageboards. I hope this board's around by the time he can type. Personally, I think the tires-as-wipes idea is a little unhygienic.
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Post by Evangeline on Jan 4, 2008 3:30:23 GMT -5
Unless they do it like horses (have you ever really watched one do its business?)
I have this theory: Cars have a multi-chambered "stomach" of which the gas tank is the second and larger. Solids get digested in the first chamber, then the nutrients are passed to the gas tank and the leftovers are sent into another system for elimination. It makes about as much sense as anything else.
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Post by stelmaria on Jan 4, 2008 4:32:59 GMT -5
Unless they do it like horses (have you ever really watched one do its business?) I have this theory: Cars have a multi-chambered "stomach" of which the gas tank is the second and larger. Solids get digested in the first chamber, then the nutrients are passed to the gas tank and the leftovers are sent into another system for elimination. It makes about as much sense as anything else. Hmm... sounds like the human digestive system... sorta...
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Post by dodgesuperbee on Jan 10, 2008 13:14:08 GMT -5
Wow, this thread's almost a year old. I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but I think their toilets would look a lot like ours, minus the seat because they wouldn't need to sit. They'd just back up with their bum (for lack of a better word, I'm using my 4yo's term) over the potty and do their business. Look up 'squat toilets' on Wikipedia to see the hyooman equivalent. Instead of a flusher handle, they'd hit a button on the floor or wall that would spray water onto their undercarriage, followed by a blast of air to dry them, and then flush the toilet. That would solve the problem of wiping, though I'm not sure what they'd do out in nature.
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Post by pookydoc on Jan 10, 2008 15:29:36 GMT -5
hahah having water spray you in the butt would be funny...
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Post by Evangeline on Jan 10, 2008 17:11:17 GMT -5
I'm having this mental image of a car dragging its butt in the grass after going off-road to do its business. LOL
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Post by pookydoc on Jan 10, 2008 19:40:47 GMT -5
maybe they crap like horses..like..sorry this is gonna sound gross but if you ever seen a horse crap...it's bumhole kinda sticks out...probably to keep from getting dirty..perhaps cars do something similar??? XD yeah really dirty...but horses crap in front of me all the time so...you kinda notice this XD
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Post by stickers95 on Feb 7, 2008 13:32:18 GMT -5
I have this theory: Cars have a multi-chambered "stomach" of which the gas tank is the second and larger. Solids get digested in the first chamber, then the nutrients are passed to the gas tank and the leftovers are sent into another system for elimination. It makes about as much sense as anything else. hm... i have the following theory on the "digestive" issue: cars - as semi-organic machine beings (no, they are not BORG) - do have two different systems. one system, the machine part, has the gas tank as input, the exhaust as output and the engine as a processing unit for the gas "calories". the second system is of organic nature, with the mouth as input (for oil and water), a kind of stomach (which we don't know of) and, of course, there must be an exit. probably at the car's rear end. hence the need for bathrooms... ;D
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Post by Evangeline on Feb 7, 2008 19:20:07 GMT -5
I have this theory: Cars have a multi-chambered "stomach" of which the gas tank is the second and larger. Solids get digested in the first chamber, then the nutrients are passed to the gas tank and the leftovers are sent into another system for elimination. It makes about as much sense as anything else. hm... i have the following theory on the "digestive" issue: cars - as semi-organic machine beings (no, they are not BORG) - do have two different systems. one system, the machine part, has the gas tank as input, the exhaust as output and the engine as a processing unit for the gas "calories". the second system is of organic nature, with the mouth as input (for oil and water), a kind of stomach (which we don't know of) and, of course, there must be an exit. probably at the car's rear end. hence the need for bathrooms... ;D That other disgestive system would have to be capable of digesting other things besides oil and gas, or it would be an unnecessary redundancy. Perhaps it is a biological form of "multi-fuel" option, but which processes organic substances at a much slower rate than the other system which simply accepts fuel into the tank.
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Post by stickers95 on Feb 8, 2008 0:40:18 GMT -5
yep. a "multi-substance-processing-system".
when LMQ first tried to escape from radiator springs and didn't get far because the sheriff had drained his fuel tank, then he would have had to feel "hungry" (if the fuel tank was the only "stomach", and emptyness would signal some kind of "hunger"), but he just notices that he has run out of gas. so i guess that running out of gas must feel like "running out of enery", e.g. being exhausted, after sports, or a long & hard working day, etc., for us humans.
this would fit also into another theory: the cars in CARS seem to be able to move without engine sound, which looks to me as being able to move without the engine running (or the engine sound sometimes has been dimmed and sometimes not, which wouldn't make any sense to me). so the energy for this "engine-less" action could be taken from the second, the organic, energy-producing system. of course this would be only a "limited" ability, i. e. any action or moving could only be slow (or they would't be able to drive long distances).
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Post by dodgesuperbee on Feb 8, 2008 6:41:10 GMT -5
I like both those theories, and good observation on the hunger pangs. McQueen was caught off guard when he ran out of gas, and yet he clearly thought he could bolt away from RS without getting caught.
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