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quote:"The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the United States' next spaceship: Lots of No. 1."
Seth Borenstein, your wit F A I L S.
Why vent it into space? On a small capsule like that, why not recycle it? Didn't they invent a machine/process to do just that quite recently?
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Yer on the moon for craps sake, open the flap and set it free!!
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Yeah but why waste valuable water? You can't exactly traipse down to the Sea of Tranquility and fill a bucket, can you? No, you see, it isn't that kind of sea, if you can dig it.
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They don't recycle it because the equipment necessary to do that is probably too big and/or heavy, taking up valuable space and cargo mass. The gains in this situation most likely do not outweigh the costs.
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Yeah, but as I mentioned, NASA recently invented a compact cheap way to recycle urine...I think. I read an article about it recently though of course I don't have it right here to support my argument cuz that'd be too convenient...It could be that it was an article about a proposed or theoretical process, I guess.
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They still make Tang? Gosh, I haven't had that in years.
I wonder if the "space food" they eat creats different waste products, or at least has a different effect on their systems than normal food? Like, maybe more of a certain mineral or chemical in their urine? I had some of the freeze-dried icecream they eat during a trip to D.C., and I was remarkable constipated for the next day. All those preservatives, and binders can't be too good for you, for an extremely long period of time. Obviously astronauts can survive on it for the duration of time they are in space, but I wonder what would happen if you ate nothing but that for a few years?
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Remember the whole Cola Wars / First Taste in Space thing back around 1985? There's a reason you haven't heard of them taking carbonated drinks into space since then - the first time they burped, it all came back up!
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quote:Originally posted by B.J.: Remember the whole Cola Wars / First Taste in Space thing back around 1985? There's a reason you haven't heard of them taking carbonated drinks into space since then - the first time they burped, it all came back up!
I can't say I have. I didn't even exist back in the 80's. But interesting fact.
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I've got the poster back at my parents' house that Coca Cola put out after they "won".
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I don't think food would float in your stomach in space because your stomach, being elastic, would be holding it all tightly together. But maybe if there was enough air in there.
Is 'space food' different from regular freeze-dried stuff? I didn't think it had any extra preservatives and binding agents in it; I thought the water was simply removed to save weight.
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