Space Urine to be Recycled into Drinking Water

[techs]

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/...storyid=123576&catid=4

Space Urine to be Recycled into Drinking Water

ORLANDO, FL-- The countdown is underway for NASA's planned launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour Friday.

The mission will carry astronauts and a one of a kind sewage treatment plant to the International Space Station.

The new system is efficient enough even turn urine into clean drinking water.

Astronaut sandy Magnus will start up the water recycling system after it's transferred from the shuttle to the space station.

"There's five containers of waste water from the Russian toilet to start the regeneration system going," said Magnus.

NASA has been designing and building this system for more than a decade.



It's not just space pee, it's Russion space pee!

 

[Gibson486]

Let me let you in on something....that water you drink...it, at some point, came from a waste water plant....

 

[Queasy]

Waiter: Sir?
Lt. Frank Drebin: Gimme the strongest thing you got.
[Waiter brings over a greased-up muscle man. Drebin flounders]
Lt. Frank Drebin: Uh... on second thought, how about a black Russian?
Waiter: Very well sir.
[raises eyebrow, looks at camera, shakes head and walks off]

edit: Don't ask me why this post made me think of this scene from Naked Gun 2 1/2. I don't know. That's just the way my mind works.

 

[Amused]

Every drop of water on earth has been consumed and peed/pooped out of millions of animals/humans before you drank it.

 

[Tim]

Originally posted by: techs
It's not just space pee, it's Russion space pee!

Damn Russions!

 

[darkxshade]

I don't know if I could do it, there's a bit of a mental hurdle to go through to drink space pee converted water. You know for a fact this time the water you drink was your own piss. I know the water we drink now is also possibly re-processed piss but it was done by nature and then treated again after.

 

[EGGO]

Is this supposed to gross us out? Looks like everybody else is breaking the news about water.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Amused
Every drop of water on earth has been consumed and peed/pooped out of millions of animals/humans before you drank it.

And it is damn tasty!

 

[Vehemence]

Sounds like a Max Hardcore video

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
Let me let you in on something....that water you drink...it, at some point, came from a waste water plant....

I'm going to go with this.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
Let me let you in on something....that water you drink...it, at some point, came from a waste water plant....

...or was in the sewer, or was in the toilet while someone was taking a dump, or passed through someone's kidney, so on and so forth. It's gross, but it's the stuff 99.9% of people don't think about whenever they're cracking open a nice bottle of water, but it's the truth.

 

[sdifox]

I thought they already do the urine thing from Apollo days?

 

[Brainonska511]

They're trying to steal our precious bodily fluids.