For Sure I Don't Want To Go Into Space

[Bill Greenwood]

When space exploration first came along some jumped at the chance to be an astronaut, other great pilots like Yeager wanted a machine that the pilot was still the primary control factor. I never liked most jets/rockets that much, they make awful sounds and smells.
Now, I am even more real sure I don't want to be no Flash Gordon. I would like to meet Barbarella , BUT THERE'S A CATCH. NASA has come up with a new techno gadget to solve the problem of lack of water in space. This new machine will recycle urine into fresh drinking water. I am sure it works just fine, but all in all I'd rather have the original version of water. Don't think I am gonna sign up for that flight.

[Old SAR pilot]

Bill,

Can't smell or taste any worse than the water I've had from several deployed locations, not to mention some places here in the U.S......It's just knowing WHERE it came from that'd bug me!

[tom d. friedman]

practice with mountain dew brand soda pop

[rwdfresno]

The water you drink has been the waste at some time. Water is drank or absorbed then spent as waste, which then goes into a reservoir and evaporates into the air only to make that journey over and over until the planet comes to an end. Sea creatures continually do the business in the ocean and ships dump their waste into the ocean. The liquid evaporates and then accumulates into the atmosphere and eventually is sent back to the surface as precipitation. Your water has been the waste of many creatures for millions of years. Sure the concentration of waste on a space ship to produce water is going to be much greater but really it isn't that much different.

Drink up

[Chris Brame]

Just mix it with Tang like all the other good astronauts do!

[bdk]

When space exploration first came along some jumped at the chance to be an astronaut, other great pilots like Yeager wanted a machine that the pilot was still the primary control factor. I never liked most jets/rockets that much, they make awful sounds and smells.
Now, I am even more real sure I don't want to be no Flash Gordon. I would like to meet Barbarella , BUT THERE'S A CATCH. NASA has come up with a new techno gadget to solve the problem of lack of water in space. This new machine will recycle urine into fresh drinking water. I am sure it works just fine, but all in all I'd rather have the original version of water. Don't think I am gonna sign up for that flight.

I'd be glad to start a collection to send you into space nonetheless...

Many moons ago I saw a gal at a party who was happily telling everyone that it was accepted in some parts of the Chinese culture to drink your own urine "for your health." Needless to say, she didn't get kissed (at least by me) that evening.

In case Bill wants to do more reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_urine

In countries such as India and China, it is considered normal by some groups to drink your own urine for health and cosmetic purposes. This health branch of drinking urine is considered to be labeled as Urine therapy. Also, an old method of teeth-whitening during the Renaissance involved the consumption of urine, though it needn't be, and wasn't always necessarily, that of the user.

[Robbie Roberts]

Just mix it with Tang like all the other good astronauts do!

Sounds like it might have a little "Tang" of its own to start with...




Robbie

[mustangdriver]

Now, I am even more real sure I don't want to be no Flash Gordon. I would like to meet Barbarella , BUT THERE'S A CATCH. NASA has come up with a new techno gadget to solve the problem of lack of water in space. This new machine will recycle urine into fresh drinking water.

Taco Bell has been using this same machine since the mid 1990's.

[michaelharadon]

Does this mean they'll be taking asparagus off the menu...?