Urine RECYCLER?

Now where did I put that pesky toolbag?

Sick. Not a bad way to spend a day.

Recycled into what?

Yes, you do not waste water in space. All "waste water" is cleaned and re-used.

Didn't pass the taste test, eh?

re: #4 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Water.

Actually that pic looks like the cover of an ELO album.

re: #6 Killgore Trout

Didn't pass the taste test, eh?

Had a little wang to it.

re: #7 Killgore Trout

Water.

I ain't drinking it.

Eric Sevareid: [broadcasting] There's another hold from NASA, another delay. Alan Shepard sits there, patiently waiting. What can be going through a man's mind at this moment?

[cut to Shepard in his space capsule]

Alan Shepard: Gordo?... Gordo, I have to urinate.

In space, no one can hear you blow chunks.

re: #10 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Unless you're a robot you're drinking recycled water.

re: #8 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Actually that pic looks like the cover of an ELO album.

Which brings us back to Randy Newman!

Then again, maybe not.

"Oh great"

I was really expecting and hoping for a picture of that bag of tools floating away!

re: #6 Killgore Trout

Didn't pass the taste test, eh?

"Does this taste funny to you?"

low-tech version
disregard the title

re: #15 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Crap, PIMF- ELO- Out Of The Blue

Is that a force field around Earth in the background? Sweet!

re: #19 swamprat

low-tech version
disregard the title

LMAO
No, I don't think I can...

Modern civilization is tenuous. It wouldn't take much douchebaggery to end the ISS program for good.

Someone clinging to guns and religion.

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

Matter is built on flaky foundations. Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.

The researchers simulated the frantic activity that goes on inside protons and neutrons. These particles provide almost all the mass of ordinary matter.

Each proton (or neutron) is made of three quarks - but the individual masses of these quarks only add up to about 1% of the proton's mass. So what accounts for the rest of it?

Theory says it is created by the force that binds quarks together, called the strong nuclear force. In quantum terms, the strong force is carried by a field of virtual particles called gluons, randomly popping into existence and disappearing again. The energy of these vacuum fluctuations has to be included in the total mass of the proton and neutron.

/is this a good or bad thing?

re: #23 shay4l

Modern civilization is tenuous. It wouldn't take much douchebaggery to end the ISS program for good.

Man, I'm feeling too negative tonight. Sorry!

The ISS is passing directly overhead SoCal right now!

ISS Tracking

Go outside and look up!

re: #10 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

I ain't drinking it.

OK. They recycle it into beer. Happy? ;)

Just zap the urine with BrownNoise and everything will be fine!

re: #30 experiencedtraveller

OK. They recycle it into beer. Happy? ;)

Right cycle, wrong direction. ;)

re: #30 experiencedtraveller

OK. They recycle it into beer. Happy? ;)

Well, one only rents beer.

re: #28 Racer X

ISS Tracking

Now over MN

C'mon folks. Most of us who live in cities and drink tap water are drinking recycled, diluted sewage.
And it is probably more sterile than well water or spring water.

re: #28 Racer X

Cool.

re: #34 Racer X

Now over MN

That's one fast MoFo.

re: #24 The Other Les

Someone clinging to guns and religion.

/what's that weapon?

re: #37 bosforus

4.5 miles per second.

re: #34 Racer X

Now over MN

Nooo it has crossed the Canadian border!

re: #24 The Other Les

sent that to my daughter
pagan, left, good shot

re: #34 Racer X

Now over MN

/too cold outside

re: #30 experiencedtraveller

OK. They recycle it into beer. Happy? ;)

Will the taste be out of this world?
/

re: #38 Killian Bundy

/what's that weapon?

In the thread, they call it a PTR-91. Looks like an HK-91 to me, which is the civvie version of the German G-3.

re: #43 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Will the taste be out of this world?
/

It's from the land of sky blue waters...

/

re: #24 The Other Les

Someone clinging to guns and religion.

Isn't that a symbol of Satanism?

re: #37 bosforus

That's one fast MoFo.

Can you believe it? In less than 5 minutes it went from over CA to over MN. Awesome!

"Why wasn't this International Space Station sold and the money given to the poor?"
He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but that because he was a thief, and was in charge of U.S. budget, and stole what was put therein.
And he didn't care about science or technology or aerospace advancement or "going where no man has gone before"...

/He was a Liberal

re: #45 OldLineTexan

It's from the land of sky blue waters...

/

Ya big Hamm(s)!

re: #35 Jim in Virginia

C'mon folks. Most of us who live in cities and drink tap water are drinking recycled, diluted sewage.

/personally, I use an awsome water filter, it's pretty obvious why it's worth it's weight in gold when it comes time to change out the filters

re: #33 MandyManners

Well, one only rents beer.

Can still hear my aged mother saying, "stop pi$$ing your hard earned money away..."

re: #47 Racer X

Can you believe it? In less than 5 minutes it went from over CA to over MN. Awesome!

I love seeing satellites in the sky. I probably could have seen the ISS if I had made it outside in time.

re: #51 experiencedtraveller

Can still hear my aged mother saying, "stop pi$$ing your hard earned money away..."

I think she was full of Schlitz.

///

re: #45 OldLineTexan

It's from the land of sky blue waters...

/

Huh, a Hamm's beer reference.

re: #25 Killian Bundy

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

/is this a good or bad thing?

It's exciting.

re: #18 Racer X

"Does this taste funny to you?"

`That water tastes like it has some wang in it.

re: #53 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

I think she was full of Schlitz.

///

Ha! Well she was born in a pub!
---

Astronomy photo of the day website

re: #54 gregg

a beer is a beer is a beer is a beer... until you've tasted Hamms!

/hmmm... urine and Hamms in the same thread. How appropriate.

So great, kind of like "my dog ate my homework" is a kin to a maintenance man that shows up at a machine break down problem without a tool bag..."I lost it in space"...

Don't the Fremen of the desert planet Dune have those nifty suits that are able to recycle all of the bodily fluids into clean drinking water?
Yes and yep.

W.C.Fields: "I'd never drink anything that fish --- in."

For 'me mates in Atlanta I sincerely apologize, I was right when I gave the announcement of the shuttle/ISS over Atlanta at 6:10 PM last night, but some how I mis-interpreted the orbital track going away. My mistake mates!

Wow! The best space station picture ever. Makes me forget the Spacewalkers let fly with 200K worth of grease guns.

YEAH!

re: #38 Killian Bundy

/what's that weapon?

Looks like a H & K G3.

re: #41 swamprat

sent that to my daughter
pagan, left, good shot

I like Havarti on cheeseburgers.

;)

Charles - posting on the poll thread is whacked.

re: #46 MandyManners

Isn't that a symbol of Satanism?

Only when it's upside down. Single point up is the symbol of Paganism.

Every post ends up in the spinning wheel of doom

Seriously whacked.

re: #68 Racer X

Every post ends up in the spinning wheel of doom

"New comments" button too.

re: #25 Killian Bundy

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

/is this a good or bad thing?

YEAAAH! I'm just a quantum vacuum! Will Bukkake grant me consciousness before or after the bathrobe belt wind around the cosmic agitator?

re: #63 Sol Roth

Wow! The best space station picture ever. Makes me forget the Spacewalkers let fly with 200K worth of grease guns.

YEAH!

Look! It's a buzzing prayer rug in the top left corner!

Huzzaaah! :P

I'm staying here until it is fixed or I fall down drunk.

re: #64 The Other Les

Looks like a H & K G3.

Flootey?

Poll page won't load at all now

Hey, what's this thing d

re: #76 Racer X

Hey, what's this thing d

*snicker* :P

re: #35 Jim in Virginia

C'mon folks. Most of us who live in cities and drink tap water are drinking recycled, diluted sewage.
And it is probably more sterile than well water or spring water.

But it tastes like sh*t.

Onward, ever ever on...

re: #60 callahan23

Don't the Fremen of the desert planet Dune have those nifty suits that are able to recycle all of the bodily fluids into clean drinking water?
Yes and yep.

Don't leave your sietch without one on.

re: #80 Muadib

Don't leave your sietch without one on.

ROTFLMAO, ROTFLMAO.

And even your nic and avatar do fit to the subject I posted.
~ Do you keep your water discipline? ~

A timely photo for me; spent the day at Palomar Observatory. The wonders of space..

re: #81 callahan23

Yes. And beer discipline as well. ;)

Quick. Someone drop in a TIE fighter and send it to the Associated Press.

Surprise.

re: #73 Racer X

I'm staying here until it is fixed or I fall down drunk.

Haha!

Speaking of space station sightings, I'm always dragging my kids outside whenever it goes over (trying to get them to realize how awesome it is and explaining it to them).

Excellent photo... Great shot of the horizon too!

Wow. That is one sweet camera.

Urine... the Final Frontier.

I always knew that if they could put a man on the man, they could make a giant tinfoil wrapped shawarma sandwich.

It came from outer space.

Meteorite lands in Alberta

It would seem logical to have the $250 million piss recycler system include a simple water tester. Why do they have to send the samples back to Earth? Once the shuttle stops flying missions, they might want the ability to test on site.

At least they sent a second toilet to the space station.

Just going to the bathroom in zero gravity presents some very serious problems. I don't really want to think about it.

Urine Recycler? Is water that precious a commodity?
(I guess it is, considering resupplies would take about a week even without the bureaucracy, but yeesh...)

Who left the toolbox with the girl? Can we not do that again, please?

re: #25 Killian Bundy

The Higgs field is also thought to make a small contribution, giving mass to individual quarks as well as to electrons and some other particles. The Higgs field creates mass out of the quantum vacuum too, in the form of virtual Higgs bosons. So if the LHC confirms that the Higgs exists, it will mean all reality is virtual.
/is this a good or bad thing?

Maybe in a year or two, when phones have a few hundred or so petaflops in their little noggins, we can dial up the universe of our choice. Sounds like a keeper to me.

A 250 million dollar urinal...

And Killian, have you read any Doc Taylor?

who cares about the story...that photo is unbelieveable. wow.

I love space

Crikey! So now they have to go "outside" to pee?

Awesome photo.