Shuttle is bringing machine to turn pee into drinking water to International Space Station..

[ddeclue]

Hey pass the pee... I mean the water..

:rofl:

They are talking about it on NASA TV right now..

Doug D.

[islandmkl]

1. how about the guy reading the label....freaking hilarious....

[jody]

2. That's no big deal, politicians have been turning BS into elected office for ever. n/t

[Lerrad]

3. Just saw that....

... "there is a little bit of me in that bottled water".

Oh man... I'm glad I'm not an astronaut.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. I've been turning water into pee most of my life.

Not quite the same, eh?

Sorry.

[ddeclue]

5. When you weren't turning water into pee, what did you turn it into?

You said "most" of your life...was there a period when you turned it into something else?

:rofl:

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. I ain't dead yet.

At least I don't think so...........

:fistbump:

[ddeclue]

7. Oh darn it! I thought you had a cool Jesus magic trick

like turning the pee into wine or something!

:rofl:

(I can do the reverse Jesus trick and turn the wine into pee - :rofl: )

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. I thought I saw Jesus in a grilled cheese sandwich once,

....but it was a little too much wine that morning.

:beer:

[Billy Burnett]

8. It'd be better if they turned pee into beer - like Corona beer. eom

[PatGund]

16. They do.....

How else do you explain Coors??

[RC]

10. I thought they had been doing that for years now.

:shrug:

[doc03]

14. Wow, how about that we each posted the same thing

at the same time. I'm sure I had heard they were doing that years ago. :hi:

[ddeclue]

15. Nope...

They usually have plenty of water on board because of either:

A) Shuttle and other US space vehicles have traditionally been Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered 2H2+O2=2H20+electricity. So they've had plenty of water and the pee gets shot overboard. (Remember the Constellation "Urion" joke in the movie Apollo 13?)

B) Space station they've been bringing it up to them on Progress missions and transferring fuel cell waster water from shuttle to them during missions.

The new vehicles for Moon and Mars will have less in the way of fuel cells and more in the way of solar cells. This makes them more sustainable for long term missions but means they can't simply dump water and urine O/B anymore.

Doug D.

[doc03]

11. I thought they had been doing that for years n/t

[davidpdx]

12. I saw that too, ick

is right! I would have gladly given lots of samples though since I drink lots of Coke everyday. I'll pee anywhere.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Hey, I can turn water INTO pee, if that helps....

Just my effort for the furthering of man's leap into the unknown.