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11-15-2008, 09:17 AM
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NASA astronauts to drink recycled urine in space!
November 15, 2008
London, November 15 (ANI): NASA is launching a machine aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, which will recycle astronauts' urine for consumption as water. "We did blind taste tests of the water. Nobody had any strong objections. Other than a faint taste of iodine, it is just as refreshing as any other kind of water," the Telegraph quoted NASA's Bob Bagdigian, the system's lead engineer, as saying. "I've got some in my fridge. It tastes fine to me," he added. The launch of the 250million-dollar wastewater recycling machine is part of NASA's 124th shuttle mission, which was launched on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle is expected to arrive at the space station on Sunday. Besides the water recycler, Endeavour carries two small bedrooms, the station's first refrigerator, new exercise gear, and a second lavatory. "With six people you really do need to have a two-bathroom house. It's a lot more convenient and a lot more efficient," said Endeavour astronaut Sandra Magnus. NASA said that it wanted to ensure that the water-recycling machine worked well before adding three more astronauts to the station's crew. NASA researchers said that they expected to process about six gallons, or 23 litres, of water per day with the new device. They revealed that their objective was to recover about 92 per cent of the water from the crew's urine and moisture in the air. As to the process of recycling the wasterwater, the researchers said that they used an extensive series of purification techniques like distillation - which is somewhat tricky in microgravity - filtration, oxidation, and ionisation. Bagdigian said that the final step, that is, the addition of iodine helped prevent microbial growth. He said that the device could process a full day's worth of wastewater in less than 24 hours. "Today's drinking water was yesterday's waste," he concluded.
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11-15-2008, 09:24 AM
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Next step, picking the nuts out of their stool.
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11-15-2008, 09:29 AM
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Well, they're not the first to do it. Certain people living in very hot conditions have developed much simpler and less effective ways of doing the same thing. I think it's a pretty good idea.
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11-15-2008, 10:15 PM
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pics of this?
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11-15-2008, 10:16 PM
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Recycled urine reminded me of a prank to play on friends and family at home.
- Go get yourself some apple juice at the grocer (apple cider works the best coz it's naturally cloudy). Go to the drugstore and buy a urine specimen cup. - Shortly before you are sure to have an audience, leave the empty specimen cup in a place where it could easily be seen then hide the juice in the bathroom. - In front of people with specimen cup in hand, excuse yourself and make it a point to explain you have a doctor's appointment shortly and need to give a urine sample. - Once you're in the bathroom, fill the cup about 3/4 full with the juice or cider. With a straight face, (laugh and you're busted) go where your friends are and proceed to raise the juice filled specimen cup up to the light, open the lid and simultaneously say "Shit, looks a little cloudy, think I'll run it through again" and slug the juice down. Tip. The more gullible the marks the better. Kids freak out.
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