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NASA Develops Machine that Turns Urine Into Drinking Water

abcnews.go.com — NASA has spent decades perfecting a system to transform urine into water that can be used in space for drinking, food preparation and washing. Agency officials say the water from the system will be cleaner than U.S. tap water.

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  • killbert24, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9Like Kevin Costner in Water World!
  • MookiBlaylock, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5$250 million machine to convert piss to water. Refreshing.
  • mydigga, on 05/15/2008, -1/+3Just what we need... a bunch of egotistical astronauts running around telling us they piss purified water.
  • Bolin100, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1We know that NASA has kept a lot of secrets from us in the past, but, when they decide on something to tell us, why in the world would they brag about this?
    • sc0rpi0n, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1NASA is tied to Department of Defense, so by and large they have to hide. They brag to ease the feelings of paranoid taxpayers. It's a shout to the public that their doughs are best spent.
  • SaintDogbert, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Now if only someone could make a machine that turns drinking water into urine.
  • flogistan, on 05/15/2008, -2/+2The machine is called the porn industry.
  • Four20, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2didn't the segway guy do this already?
  • greytfriend, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1A lot of NASA tech that starts out expensive and only for space use ends up being translated into a version useful here on Earth. This is an example. I bet a lot of people trapped in Myanmar right now or who were in New Orleans a few years ago would have been happy to have this kind of machine to use to have safe drinking water. Not fun, but practical.
  • positron, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2"...He found his stillsuit's watertube in its clip at his neck, drew a warm swallow into his mouth, and he thought that here he truly began an Arrakeen existence--living on reclaimed moisture from his own breath and body. It was flat and tasteless water, but it soothed his throat..."

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