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08-15-2005, 06:23 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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Drinking your own urine...
This is a funny but really cool article (one of the reasons I love Wired magazine):
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/urine.html
NASA desperately needs this technology. Water makes for a heavy - and expensive - payload. Over the past five years, the agency has spent $60 million delivering potable water to the International Space Station on the space shuttle (6 tons at a cost of about $40,000 per gallon). Deploying the Water Recovery System on the ISS will cut the volume of water hauled into space by two-thirds and free up enough room on the shuttle for four more astronauts.Rich
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08-15-2005, 06:35 AM #2An Awesome Dude
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I cant imagine some1 drinking that stuff
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sad thing is that some people really do drink their urine. very nasty - disgusting yuk.
theres also the scat people out there as well.
yes - some very disturbed people.
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My ex-neighbour used to drink his own urine when I was at his house.
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Originally posted by sailor
sad thing is that some people really do drink their urine. very nasty - disgusting yuk.
theres also the scat people out there as well.
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My ex-neighbour used to drink his own urine when I was at his house.• WLVPN.com • NetProtect owned White Label VPN provider •
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08-15-2005, 11:16 AM #7Disabled
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I guess if it's filtered well it would be okay. I'm sure if I really knew what was in city water I wouldn't drink it.
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what do you think comes out of your tap everyday? Why not visit a water reclamation facility in your town and see.
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If they were able to recycle urine in Waterworld, I don't see why NASA can't do the same.
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Originally posted by Aussie Bob
Did he get it from the fridge, or did he just pour it straight from the, errrr, tap, into his cup?
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08-15-2005, 12:07 PM #11Disabled
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Very interesting.
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08-15-2005, 02:58 PM #12Russ
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In Russia they developed technology called "Waste Liquid Purification" or something like that, it turns Urine into Drinking water. Was on Discovery channel or something was interesting. Even though it no longer tasted like Urine when the space peepole would drink it, they weren't exactly eager and made unusual faces after doing so.
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Although I certainly wouldn't do in on a daily basis as a normality, I do know several people who have *had* to drink their own urine when out in the wilderness, in order to survive, bare in mind these people could well have ended up in a life threatening situation if they didn't.
I have never had to do it myself, for the simple fact I much prefer to take a few extra litres of water to drink and suffer the extra weight in my rucksack, or drink disgusting chlorinated water using water purification tablets to purify river water, I would certainly drink my own urine though if I had to survive, from what I hear it isn't all that bad.
If we were talking about drinking the coal from your campfire to make yourself vomit in order to get rid of a stomach infection, well, then I would totally agree that that is far from nice, I have had to do it once, it took over an hour for my body to finally accept that it was going down, before then I simply couldn't get it down.
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Originally posted by Aussie Bob
I remember reading something about some cultures who do drink their own urine. There's supposed to be health benefits to that.
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Originally posted by Aussie Bob
Did he get it from the fridge, or did he just pour it straight from the, errrr, tap, into his cup?
Originally posted by esh
what do you think comes out of your tap everyday? Why not visit a water reclamation facility in your town and see.
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In my town, the council wants to introduce recycled sewage water back into the system. No freakin way I'll be drinking recycled sewage water!
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Originally posted by Aussie Bob
In my town, the council wants to introduce recycled sewage water back into the system. No freakin way I'll be drinking recycled sewage water!
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That is nothing new.
Singapore as a nation drinks their own urine + whatever waste they can recover. They call it newater.
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Some of you need to read the article more closely:
1. This is not about sickos drinking their own urine.
2. Nobody is claiming that this is the first time it has been done. Reverse Osmosis Purification Units (ROPU) have been around for decades to make drinking water out of the most vile and briny water imaginable.
What is new about this system is how small, portable, and cheap it is. Did you read the part where they can make enough water in a month for a whole village with a foot pump? That's pretty dang remarkable and has some great implications for clean water in developing countries.Rich
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08-15-2005, 07:53 PM #20Web Hosting Evangelist
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i'm sure everyone has drank reclaimed water at some point and not even known it.... people just seem to think the lakes are endless or something.
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08-15-2005, 08:27 PM #21Web Hosting Guru
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We're all drinking everyone else's piss right now, it's not a big deal.
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Originally posted by Aussie Bob
I remember reading something about some cultures who do drink their own urine. There's supposed to be health benefits to that.
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that is a very sickening thought.
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08-15-2005, 09:49 PM #24Disabled
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that is just nasty.
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Normal urine should be sterile when it leaves the bladder. Not all urine is sterile. Some viruses, including Hepatitis A can be spread through the urine. Bladder infections can produce urine full of bacteria. It's probably a major reason why we have evolved to not want to drink urine.
If you were in a desperate situation with no water supply, could you survive by drinking your own urine? Maybe a little while, but probably not very long. With each pass the urine would become more concentrated, and at some point this has got to be counterproductive to survival.