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Astronauts head for extreme home makeover in space

physorg.com — The international space station is about to get all the comforts of a modern, high-end, "green" home: a fancy recycling water filter, a new fridge, extra bedrooms, workout equipment and the essential half-bath.

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  • crazzy88ss, on 11/10/2008, -1/+14queer eye for the mir guy.
  • armakaryk, on 11/11/2008, -1/+8you know how a thermos works? well, space is one big thermos, sure its technically cold but there aren't many atoms to transfer the excess heat to.
  • barc0de, on 11/11/2008, -0/+5Not only that - but the urine of every animal ever to have existed. That soft drink you are gulping right now - made with dinosaur piss.
  • Ragone, on 11/11/2008, -0/+52000 years ago Jesus amazed crowds by turning water into wine. Today, NASA space engineers will reap the benefits of drinking their own urine.
  • BossKey, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3We drink recycled urine water right now.

    (Water on Earth doesn't just appear out of nowhere.)
  • cuoops, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3source with pics - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindsc ...
  • jggube, on 11/09/2008, -1/+3If I was ever to subject myself to being in space for months... it better be comfy as heck or else I'll go nuts!
  • inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1Um. Why?
  • DanBoodro, on 11/11/2008, -1/+2Drywall in space?
  • danevahey, on 11/11/2008, -1/+2Buried in the article is the unsettling notion that one day we will be drinking our own recycled union as water will be highly scarce.

    Interesting that this "WaterWorld" sci fiction is actually coming turning into a very true reality.
  • asgardshill, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Getting rid of heat in a manned space environment is a big problem - its generated by the Sun, computers, hardware, and people but there's really nowhere for the heat to go. It doesn't just dissipate into space because space is a near-perfect vacuum. That's why they leave the cargo bay doors open all throughout a Space Shuttle mission. The doors provide a lot of surface area that acts as a heat sink, and warm liquid is pumped through them to cool it off where it returns cooled and in turn cools the spacecraft.
  • ThanatosST, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1You know... I kinda want one of those urine recyclers in my house. Call me a cheap ass, but I'd love to be able to cut my water bill down to just about nothing if I could hook up my shower's drain and my dishwasher to it.
  • mkNix, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1Time for a new tv show then? "Cribs in Space"
    That would be something i would'nt watch just like all the rest of that crap.
  • kiegh, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1This is really cool. My buddy works on designing the treadmill and its harnesses at NASA :)
  • jnorris441, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1I want Ty Pennington to stupidly leave the airlock to blast his bullhorn into space, and die immediately
  • Wildthing, on 11/11/2008, -1/+1See that guy right there? He drinks his own pee!
  • Ersh777, on 11/11/2008, -1/+1Sweet! They're sending Ty Pennington to space?
  • inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+0We're bailing out banks with our tax money, and they're building a house in space.

    BRILLIANT
  • Mylf, on 11/11/2008, -1/+1Extra toilet. Would work for me. I wonder what's going on with the plan, lately, to have U.S. astronauts hitching rides to the ISS until the replacement vehicle for the shuttle is done. That's a nutty idea, BTW, relying on the russians to get our astronauts into space, particulary post-georgia invasion.
  • d-ude, on 11/11/2008, -0/+0I don't think ejaculating in space could ever get old. Just give me a steady supply of porn and I'd be fine. Maybe some tissues too. No, baby wipes. Yeah that's it.
  • inactive, on 11/11/2008, -1/+1The problem is, such a rotating station would have to be -huge-. Otherwise, the psuedo-gravitational delta between your head and your feet would just be extremely high.
  • SteelSpine, on 11/11/2008, -0/+0accept NASA is real unlike the other fairytale

  • motters, on 11/11/2008, -1/+1What's really needed for civilized living in space is a rotating space station to create artificial gravity. Floating around in microgravity may be fun for a while, but gravity would make living in space much more normal and also provide needed health benefits such as preventing osteoporosis which all astronauts suffer from to some extent.
  • wrathbone, on 11/11/2008, -0/+0is that an order?
  • d-ude, on 11/11/2008, -1/+1Slurm?
  • trendygamer, on 11/11/2008, -5/+2"The existing space station galley provides hot or warm water - but not cold."

    Um....YOU'RE IN SPACE. IT'S COLD OUT. Someone run a few inches of uninsulated pipe out of the freakin' station and cool some of that water down. Rocket science, indeed.
  • winchai, on 11/11/2008, -7/+0Good quality and protects the camera. Wish we had purchased one slightly larger to hold and extra set of batteries and a small charge
    http://astore.amazon.com/canon-5d-rumors-20

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