Thats what happens when you try recycling weird stuff 😛
NASA developed this $250 million urine and wastewater recycling system that recycles what I mentioned to drinkable water…
It’s an expected event since building things on ground (No matter how good it runs) will differ from space ue to gravity issues and whatever other factors… So they’ll be fixing it soon hopefully…
On the other hand, WHO’D LIKE TO DRINK WHAT HE\SHE\IT PISSED!? I’d rather drink brake fluid than recycled piss!!!
I know its hard to transport water from earth to that International Space Station, but COME ON!!!
The only good use to such thing is to water plants, wash the spaceship’s interior (Which I still doubt its a good thing) and exterior (I just had a weird image of someone washing the Space Station like washing a car :P) and maybe wash some equipments… But not to drink, wash plates and food-related stuff, wash clothes and showering and baths!!!
Thats why I always call those who goes up there “AstroNUTS!!!”…
I’m sorry fellows, I totally don’t look down at your career since you wouldn’t be out there unless you’re scientists an know stuff that my idiot mind wouldn’t be able to process and you’re trying tp minimize consumption as much as possible, but thats a bad move…
In the end… It’s just my idiotic opinion… I’m sure I’m %0~%50 right…
Click here to read the REUTERS link.
Isn’t recycled water more pure than normal water? ;p
i think you’re right… but if it was more pure than normal water, it wouldn’t satisfy the human’s need since we consume the salt in the drinkable water (i might be wrong here… need a med guy to correct me)…
but still… i wont drink recycled from my own piss!!
LOL! Man I was being sarcastic, of course I wouldn’t dare to drink it even if it was potable with all the useful minerals. 😛
How can you call yourself geeks and not even drink a water that is MORE PURE than tab water! Remember that the water your drink is being recycled from waste products as well, but mother nature does it for us. So instead of waiting for a few years to drink someone’s else piss, what’s wrong with drinking yours if the technology is viable. Not that you have much choice 200km above Earth at any rate!
do we really have to force ourselves to love something that we don’t really believe in to become geeks?
mother nature would purify it the long boring way… but doing it instantly and artificially wouldn’t be as good as the natural way…
beside what does geekness got to do with this? we don’t have to forcefully love some technologies just because they’re technologies…
if you’re fine with drinking your purified piss right after purifying it well its your opinion… I’m totally not fine with it