Not a lot of fun was had by the characters in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Perhaps Stanley Kubrick had a presentiment that life for a lot of people in the next century would not be a bundle of laughs. So his clearly very deliberate "Zero Gravity Toilet" joke always went down well with audiences (although I am not sure how well it translated).
Here, at your leisure (unlike Dr. Floyd), you can take your time and read all of those instructions and wonder again at the attention Kubrick paid to such small details as to make complete and logically correct something that no cinema- goer ever had time to read in full.
Click here for "Zero Gravity Toilet".
In addition, you can read the instructions to be followed for placing a call using Bell Telephone's Visionphone. Not quite so complex as the Zero G situation, but presumably it didn't matter quite so much if you got them wrong...
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