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Space Station Crew Drinks Recycled Urine
An anonymous reader writes "After the astronauts on the International Space Station finished up their communications with Space Shuttle Atlantis yesterday, the crew on the Space Station did something that no other astronaut has ever done before — drank recycled urine and sweat. The previous shuttle crew that recently returned to Earth brought back samples of the recycled water to make sure it was safe to drink, and all tests came back fine. So on Wednesday, the crew took their recycled urine and said 'cheers' together and toasted the researches and scientists that made the Urine Recycler possible. After drinking the water, they said the taste was great! They also said the water came with labels on it that said 'drink this when real water is over 200 miles away.'"
What a (lack of) drag!
That's not Gatorade, mate!
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
To my Stillsuit...bring on the worms...
CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
I have this... Increadible feeling of... Deja vu...
Apparently so did the mods who modded you redundant... twice...
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
it's probably cleaner than the water in the Hudson...
This is artificially recycled urine and sweat, you twit.
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
I would think it would make it important to loose your water into the proper receptacle, actually. It doesn't matter if you loose a lot or loose a little, just as long as you loose it into the right place!
It's just another step along the Golden Path.
Kevin Costner paves the way for technological innovation. I'd quote the movie but for some reason no good lines spring to mind.
I refuse to drink nature's water... Fish fuck in it.
Is that what inspired your nick? *lol*
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
It does have a little wang to it.
I don't drink that stuff if it's fluoridated. Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face!
fish don't fuck
the females just crap all their eggs in your water
then the males come along and just jizz all over the eggs, in your water
you're not drinking fish fucked water
you're drinking fish circlejerked water
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
It's pee. Soylent Yellow is made out of pee. They're making our drink out of pee. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for poo. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
I do not avoid the company of astronauts, but I do deny them my essence.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx
If you you have little kids, or have spent any time with them, you'd know that they'll happily put anything in their mouths if you don't stop them. The idea of contamination is deliberately taught to children, using words like "icky," "yucky," and "ohmigodwhatisthatinyourhand."
Which is ironic when you consider that parents frequently have to overcome previously decided upon levels of contamination to function as a parent. To use myself as an example, during my wife's first pregnancy test, my job was to hold the filled urine cup and dip the test strip in. I didn't even have to touch the urine, but the thought of it being in a cup so close to me made me nauseous.
Now, after being a parent to two boys, I can eat lunch, stop to change a poop-filled diaper, and then resume eating lunch (after washing my hands of course!). The idea of changing a poop-filled diaper or wiping the bottom of a young child does not make me nauseous at all. Sometimes I'll forget the different parent-nonparent revulsion levels and tell stories that are perfectly ok by parent standards but make non-parents run to the nearest bathroom to hurl. This can be useful if your coworker brought in something that you'd like. "Hey, that's a nice pudding cup... Though it kind of reminds me of my son's diaper yesterday. I opened it up and stuff just spilled out everywhere and... what's that? You don't feel like pudding anymore? I guess I can eat it."
Just don't ask to hear my mustard story!
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
Put it in a can labeled 'Coors'
Most people wouldn't be able to taste the difference anyway.
"Humidity must be a problem on space stations; people loose water due to respiration"
There ya go, broke that for ya
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
It brings the 'P' to the ISS...
Rural American here. I have a septic tank. Everything we excrete as waste goes into a tank, where bacteria break it down into nutrients again. The overflow goes right back into the ground, percolates through a gravel bed, and the trees and grass take it up. It's eventually evaporated into the atmosphere, from where it falls again as rain.
Hey, cool, I've probably pissed on EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD (indirectly)!!!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Can I hear your mustard story?
It may look like I'm doing nothing, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away.
--Scott Adams
A number of interesting theses
conclude, on consumption of feces:
If you go to the loo
and eat your own poo
you'll soon be wiped out as a species.
"Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway, because it's sterile and I like the taste."
"Additives? Whats in the toilet are additives."
Um... POO comes to mind.
Only on slashdot does a comment that says "Poo is in toilets" get moderated Informative.
Here's a video chad carter did on the development of this system Chads a trained physicist and a improv actor here in LA... brilliant. I laugh every time.
That's Not Tang: The NASA Urine Recycler took 10 years to develop. Watch the testing videos.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e7286d6d84/thats-not-tang-from-fod-team
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
As the astronauts had their first drink of recycled urine, the guys on the ground asked them how they felt about the new toilet's ability to reclaim pure, fresh water from crewmembers' urine:
"Wait, is that what you guys just sent up here? We haven't installed it yet..."
Bow-ties are cool.
Do you know when fluoridation first began? Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Laejoh. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
FYI, I first became aware of this during the physical act of love.
But I still don't like the foam moustache it leaves.
The one that starts with a golden shower?
I'm going to be an astronaut^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H fireman!!
You got first post and you passed up on this Golden Opportunity?
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