ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew 158
TnGoastiiaiu submitted a space.com story that expands on coverage we've had earlier about improvements being made to the ISS to increase crew capacity. He writes "ISS gets new recycling gear that transforms human waste to drinking water. Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too. This way it will soon be possible to host more crew members. " Also, someone needs to smack the webmaster over there for putting a background texture behind the text. It's pretty unreadable along the left hand side of the screen.
Waste hydrogen? (Score:3, Funny)
Looks just fine in Safari and Firefox, both on OS X... Sounds like someone needs to check their settings/browser choice before setting off to "smack" anyone. :)
As for trasforming human waste (just urine, according TFA) into drinking water, well, I'm just mighty glad I didn't choose to become an astronaut. I did wonder about this part, though:
Waste hydrogen? I would have expected them to have some use for that.
The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Are they bringing any freeze-dried potatoe?
Yummie! (Score:5, Funny)
* ???
* Profit!
Water into code? (Score:5, Funny)
Oxygene (Score:5, Funny)
Jean-Michel Jarre songs are made of water? Who knew?
Re:What is oxygene? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oxygene (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know about that, but they will get hydrogene as a byproduct.
Re:Oxygene (Score:5, Funny)
What's Oxygene?
It is one of the two types of Atomes that make up Watere. The other is Hydrogene.
If you have any other questions about Chemistrye, I'll be happy to answer them for you!
Re:Water into code? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waste hydrogen? (Score:5, Funny)
Oxygene? (Score:1, Funny)
Jean Michel Jarre will be most pleased!
Re:Water into code? (Score:3, Funny)
Friends don't let friends code drunk.
Re:Oxygene (Score:3, Funny)
No, you're thinking about iXygen.
Re:Water into code? (Score:5, Funny)
Or do mathematics.
Remember, math and alcohol don't mix. Please don't drink and derive.
Re:Waste hydrogen? (Score:5, Funny)
I think it's enormously ironic that CmdrTaco can criticize anyone for website design.
Wahoo! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yuk! (Score:5, Funny)
That too.
Re:Waste hydrogen? (Score:1, Funny)
One of my uncle is able to float a good 2 inches above the toilet when he jettison his waste.
Re:Waste hydrogen? (Score:3, Funny)
Generally, that hydrogen will require oxygen(e) to be useful, and they're splitting the oxygen off for other uses already.
Exactly - To use hydrogen, you typically either compress it or burn it. Compressing it is a lot of trouble and burning it is the exact opposite of extracting breathable oxygene* (a major goal).
* Oxygene - Just like regular oxygen, but now with more electrolytes!
Re:Yummie! (Score:5, Funny)
* Collect spice
* Profit!
Re:Oxygene? (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks for being the first person to notice this and post about it.
Re:Waste hydrogen? (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately, NASA ran into some copyright / prior art issues with Frank Herbert's estate and they had to resort to drinking reprocessed pee.
Wouldn't that last run afoul of a certain Kevin Costner property [imdb.com] as well?
I wish you hadn't brought that up - It wouldn't have been an issue.
There are a lot of people who have read Dune (or at least watched the mini-series [imdb.com] or had the movie [imdb.com] seared into their brains). But not even Costner sat through Waterworld - Since even the stage-hands and producers had blocked that movie out of their memories, nobody would have ever sued over the reprocessed pee scene.
Thanks a lot for cluing them in...