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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.'"
Every time a bear, moose, mouse, dog, cat, etc, does its thing, that waste gets filtered and flushed down streams and rivers into lakes and other bodies of water. Some of it is filtered down into Aquifers as well.
Hell, your sewage is merely treated and released back into the environment.
Where did people think all of that went? Into some large holding tank labeled as Biohazard and buried?
Well this will probably get modded down but frak it.. I got karma to burn...
I for one support our new pee drinking over...........lords.
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