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Maybe if they mix it with wiskey?

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:48 AM

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AD3MB20081114?f
eedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true I wonder if kids will still want to grow up to be Astronauts after they read this?

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:58 AM

ANTHONYT

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Hello,

It certainly doesn't sound palatable.

But this is a necessity for any long-term space projects. And if it makes you feel better, all water that we drink here on Earth is also recycled. You have probably, at one time or another, sampled some water that was once excreted from a living creature.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:58 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

What a desecration of whiskey!

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:03 AM

WHOZIT

In space, no one can hear you

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:24 AM

WHOZIT

I wonder if they recycled pee on Serenity?

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:25 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Well, I never heard about stocking up on water. What I DID hear was about picking up "grav supplies".

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:36 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

I assume they did recycle. I think a culture with a retractable toilet would be into getting the most out of their resources.

As for 'grav supplies,' like most Whedonesque 'technobabble' could mean anything. Joss didn't go out of his way to explain how things worked. On the few occasions when a character talks about technology, they do so in such a vague way that what they're saying is up for interpretation in the ears of the listener. It was a jarring change from Star Trek, which had accustomed me to a much more precise brand of nonsense.

Grav supplies could mean anything from 'supplies to make gravity devices function' to 'supplies we get when we visit gravity' i.e. a planetary body or station.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:38 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I'm assuming it was "supplies to make gravity function" because they had gravity on the ship, even in deep space.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:59 AM

ANTHONYT

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Originally posted by SignyM:
I'm assuming it was "supplies to make gravity function" because they had gravity on the ship, even in deep space.

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See?

You can take that position, and rightfully so. Meanwhile I could take the opposing position, and say it was a colloquealism for re-supplying in general. And neither one of us could be proven right without writer confirmation.

On the other hand, in Star Trek, when they channeled high-phase plasma through the dilithium crystals and routed it to the Deflectors while reversing the variance to produce a steam of chronitons, you knew EXACTLY what was happening.

;-)

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:19 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

"We did blind taste tests of the water," said NASA's Bob Bagdigian, the system's lead engineer. "Nobody had any strong objections. Other than a faint taste of iodine, it is just as refreshing as any other kind of water."

Two things --- it has GOT to taste better than the heavily chlorinated skank water that comes out of Lake Erie in the summer, and, that faint iodine taste would go much better with the peaty, briny taste of Islay single malt scotch. Also, I've read that lox makes a great food complement to the Islays.

Do I want to be an astronaut after reading that ? Well, if they lay in a supply of sms and lox !

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:59 AM

WHOZIT

This may be the reason that one lady Astronaut went nuts, remember the one who put on a diaper, and drove non-stop from Texas to Florida to kill her lovers wife? Maybe she drank the recyceled pee?

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:35 AM

ECGORDON

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Well, I never heard about stocking up on water. What I DID hear was about picking up "grav supplies".

If you're talking about when they first landed on Persephone in the pilot episode, Mal told Wash:

"Fuel her up, grab any supplies we're low on."

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:44 AM

SIGNYM

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ACH!! My ears!!!

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:19 PM

WHOZIT

In space, no one can hear you fart.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:27 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

I still want to be a an astronaut!

I'll drink recycled pee and whiskey if that's what it takes to live on the space station. Recycled water is a necessity in most space adventures.

Lox and whiskey? I must try that some time.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:13 PM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
I still want to be a an astronaut!

I'll drink recycled pee and whiskey if that's what it takes to live on the space station. Recycled water is a necessity in most space adventures.

Lox and whiskey? I must try that some time.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown
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What about the trip to MARS? How many months, how much pee?

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:45 PM

WHOZIT

In space, no one can hear you liberals bitch about the GM bail out.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:28 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

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Originally posted by whozit:
What about the trip to MARS? How many months, how much pee?

As much pee as we piss. All gray water is recycled for consumption, cooling, and lubrication uses. About 3 years? What's the current going rate for the Manned Mars Mission?

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:42 AM

WHOZIT

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
What about the trip to MARS? How many months, how much pee?

As much pee as we piss. All gray water is recycled for consumption, cooling, and lubrication uses. About 3 years? What's the current going rate for the Manned Mars Mission?

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown
www.thatcostumegirl.com
www.thatweirdgirl.com

3 years of no showers, food from a tube, 0 gravity and recyced pee......I want to be an Astronaut!!

I'm going to microwave a bagel and have sex with it - Peter Griffin

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