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A washing machine for human beings, from 1970

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Re: A washing machine for human beings, from 1970

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it's not unsanitary on your plates, why should it be on your skin?

Your plates can be washed with temperatures that would scald you and with chemicals that dissolve your skin. But you don’t want to sanitise your skin, just get the dirt off, so I don’t see any real issues.

And your colon lining if not washed away thoroughly

Re: A washing machine for human beings, from 1970

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> After five minutes of that, the machine would then fill the chamber with hot water for a three-minute ultrasonic bath. This was followed by a two-minute hot rinse cycle. Next, the chamber would drain and the user was blasted with warm air to dry off. They were additionally exposed to both infrared and ultraviolet light to kill germs. All in all, it was a 15-minute cycle. It's apparently also a tanning booth. 15 min…

And uses orders of magnitude more water
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