re: #326 WhiteRasta

I do business with a company who is in the business of recycling water. These folks are currently doing business with NASA and the general idea is that their product recycles urine back into drinking water.

Pretty interesting, as long as I don’t have to drink it……..

That’s the system they’re testing this time around?

Last I read, apparently it wasn’t working …

Speaking of which, sort of, in the David Brin novel “Startide Rising” there’s a bit where the good guys’ spaceship running from the bad guys, goes into a tight approach to a big planet to slingshot away, and when they’re momentarily hidden by the planet they drop a couple hundred tons (big ships) of water, and the bad guys are supposed to be shocked at this when they unexpectedly run into it and are destroyed. But I can’t help think this is bad physics, since the water would be released with the same approach velocities as the two ships, … one would have to hoke up some arguments about inertial velocity returning to the water absent the ships’ fields yada yada. Always bothered me, anyway.