OT: Could you drink it?

[Rick]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/ ... 2667.shtml

Urine Recycler Running At Space Station

After Several Days With No Luck, Astronauts Successfully Test Machine That Turns Waste Into Drinking Water
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(AP) After several days without luck, astronauts finally ran a successful test on equipment that turns urine into drinking water - a necessity for supporting the international space station's crew, which will soon double.

"Not to spoil anything, but I think up here the appropriate words are 'Yippee!'" space station commander Mike Fincke told Mission Control early Tuesday morning, shortly before bedtime.

"There will be dancing later," Mission Control replied.

Astronauts had spent a frustrating five days trying to get the urine processor working. But until early Tuesday, the machine couldn't last the four hours needed for a successful test run.

The urine processor ran for five hours Monday night, and flight controllers restarted it in the middle of the night. Another urine processor test was planned later Tuesday, shortly after the seven astronauts on the docked space shuttle Endeavour and the three space station crew members woke up.

Flight director Brian Smith said everything had to go well Tuesday and Wednesday in order for enough recycled water samples to be collected to return to Earth aboard Endeavour.

NASA added a 16th day to Endeavour's mission so astronauts could tinker with the urine processor. Endeavour is now set to undock Friday and land in Florida on Sunday.

The urine processor makes up a section of the $154 million water recycling system that was delivered to the space station by Endeavour. The machine is crucial to providing drinking water for the space station's crew, which is supposed to double to six members next year.

Samples of the processed urine, sweat and condensation will be tested on Earth before astronauts can start drinking the purified water next year.

In an effort to fix the problem, Fincke and Endeavour astronaut Donald Pettit had removed vibration grommets, which were used to mount a centrifuge in the urine processor, and bolted the piece down.

In other good news, the Endeavour astronauts learned Tuesday that the four spacewalks they performed during the mission paid dividends. The focus of the spacewalks was cleaning and lubricating a jammed solar-wing joint on the station's right side.

Mission Control said the early morning test went well. "I guess 'victory' clearly is the word," said shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson.

That joint had not worked properly for more than a year, preventing the solar wings on that side from pointing automatically toward the sun to generate electricity. Grinding parts left the joint full of metal shavings that kept it from rotating.

Smith cautioned that months of testing still were ahead to make certain the rotary joint was functioning 100 percent.

[artist4perry]

[Saint John]

Only if it were my own. I'm not drinking anyone else's recycled piss. Though I have tried a few Canadian beers. Other people's piss can't be much worse than that.

[FormerJrnyFan]

Only if it gave a buzz!

[Angel]

Only if it gave a buzz!

So you'd drink SJ, Steve W2 or Gator's urine??? Is that what I'm hearing?

[Deb]

Recycled urine and sweat?! Uh.....NO!

Mind you if you didn't know what it was ahead of time...........did that once with prairie oysters. Went out to my ex's Uncles farm once after branding and didn't know what it was until I had it in my mouth. LOL didn't make a scene and spit it out or anything and wasn't that bad, actually tasted like a breaded meat ball. But passed on another one.

[Loneman1]

Not in everyday life, but in that kind of a situation I'd give it a shot.

[Deb]

Only if it gave a buzz!

Hey Lori, long time! Hope life's treating ya well.

[larryfromnextdoor]

Only if it gave a buzz!

Hey Lori, long time! Hope life's treating ya well.

lori comes in for the URINE thread... i hope soto treats you 2 well.. that son of a gun..

[Don]

I had to strain my own urine and drink it in wilderness survival training. This would be a lot cleaner I figure. Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

[Michigan Girl]

Not in everyday life, but in that kind of a situation I'd give it a shot.

hmmmm....maybe.... :?

[Saint John]

I had to strain my own urine and drink it in wilderness survival training.

WTF?!?! Dude, it's the 21st fucking century. "Widerness survival training" now consists of an 18 pack, a tent and a fucking cell phone!!! If you wanted to drink recylcled piss try a Canadian beer!!! You've been watching too many reruns of Lost, dude.

[bluejeangirl76]

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Ew!

[Gin and Tonic Sky]

Urine is also a very poweful disinfectant (all good fathers tell their sons to go straight for a pee immediately if they "accidentally" sleep with a strange girl) . It can also be used to temporarily disinfect a wound, kill athletes foot bacteria, etc ect.

(Not that I ve ever tried making use of the stuff, mines often 80% jack daniels, and 20% water)

[Rhiannon]

(Not that I ve ever tried making use of the stuff, mines often 80% jack daniels, and 20% water)

[bluejeangirl76]

It can also be used to temporarily disinfect a wound

If a jellyfish stings you, pee on it.

(the injury. not the jellyfish.)

(all I ever need to know, I learned on Friends)

[stevew2]

I had to strain my own urine and drink it in wilderness survival training. This would be a lot cleaner I figure. Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

thats is whats wrong with you,thanks

[stevew2]

Only if it gave a buzz!

So you'd drink SJ, Steve W2 or Gator's urine??? Is that what I'm hearing?

mine is like fresh lemonade

[bluejeangirl76]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

Wow. You went there, didn't ya.

(Hall's?! I don't even want to know.)

[artist4perry]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

Wow. You went there, didn't ya.

(Hall's?! I don't even want to know.)

I think that falls under the TMIfederal ruling of more than I wanted to know, Gunbot! LOL!

[Voyager]

Could you drink it?

We already do.

Water Actually Recycled Urine

Could you drink it?

We already do.

Water Actually Recycled Urine

The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued an unprecedented global alert for the entire world’s population to avoid drinking water which, it has found, is actually recycled urine.

The Director-General of WHO, Lee Jong-wook, was visibly shaken as he read out a statement. "It is my solemn duty to inform the people of the world that WHO scientists, operating independently in over 80 countries, have confirmed our worst fears. They have reached consensus that the water we drink, whether it is comes from a tap, a sealed bottle, or straight from a well or river, is actually recycled urine.

The urine-water link has been blamed on the so-called hydrosphere effect, a radical hypothesis in which water from your toilet flows out into the ocean and evaporates into the sky; from where scientists believe it falls as rain upon mountaintops, and make its way via rivers directly back into your household tap.

Said Mr. Lee, "The hydrosphere effect is so far out of control there seems little chance of turning back the tide. We took samples from thousands of patients and found their bodies were riddled with water, in some cases as high as 75%. It’s too late for us, but maybe not for our children."

The finding has set public health officials scrambling for alternatives. But AMA Secretary Dr. Robyn Mason said that water is in everything we drink. "We tested fruit juice, milk and even beer, and found water content as high as 96%," she said. According to the AMA, safer alternatives include cask-strength whisky (29% water, 1% barley, 70% alcohol) and cat's milk, which has far less water than dairy varieties.

Some have expressed hope of obtaining super-pure water from deep aquifers or Antarctic ice. But Mr. Lee has poured water on these plans, stating that even the deepest groundwater sources are comprised of ancient “number ones” from prehistoric fish. "There’s no escape. And don’t even think of swimming in the ocean – there’s a reason it’s salty you know. I’d rather take my chances in a pool full of primary school kids.

[Voyager]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

You punched your cock and got a mouthful of piss? Why?

Nope... hasn't happened to me lately.

[Rhiannon]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

You punched your cock and got a mouthful of piss? Why?

Nope... hasn't happened to me lately.

Um nice guess but... try again.

[Don]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

You punched your cock and got a mouthful of piss? Why?

Nope... hasn't happened to me lately.

You are so obviously not an M.D.

[Voyager]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

You punched your cock and got a mouthful of piss? Why?

Nope... hasn't happened to me lately.

You are so obviously not an M.D.

Well, if they are taking in mouthfuls of piss after punching their patients vigorously in the cock, then I am glad I'm not.

[Gin and Tonic Sky]

Parents of neborn male boys often get put at risk of getting a drink of pee, when changing diapers. If you let the little guys thing get exposed to the air for more than 2 seconds, it fires straight into the air, and you could very well get a faceful

I learned that years ago very quickly as a new parent-

Im still intrigued by how you can punch yourself in the knob and get sprayed. though. .

[Rick]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

You punched your cock and got a mouthful of piss? Why?

Nope... hasn't happened to me lately.

You are so obviously not an M.D.

Well, if they are taking in mouthfuls of piss after punching their patients vigorously in the cock, then I am glad I'm not.

The man in the boat is part of the female genitalia.

[bluejeangirl76]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

You punched your cock and got a mouthful of piss? Why?

Nope... hasn't happened to me lately.

You are so obviously not an M.D.

Well, if they are taking in mouthfuls of piss after punching their patients vigorously in the cock, then I am glad I'm not.

The man in the boat is part of the female genitalia.

Poor Mrs. Voyager.

[Rhiannon]

Anyway what dude hasn't hit the little man in the boat a little too vigorously and ended up with a mouthful of vitamin P (especially if you're using Hall's cough drops)?

You punched your cock and got a mouthful of piss? Why?

Nope... hasn't happened to me lately.

You are so obviously not an M.D.

Well, if they are taking in mouthfuls of piss after punching their patients vigorously in the cock, then I am glad I'm not.

The man in the boat is part of the female genitalia.

Thank you, Rick, for finally clarifying!!
I was close to saying it myself... but was having too much fun watching the dude's confuse their soldier with the hoo-hoo.

[Voyager]

I've never heard the term "man in the boat" before.

I've also never gotten a mouthful of piss by pleasing my lady. If I ever did it would be the last time I did it! If I pissed in her mouth I am sure she would cut me off too.