rone: (Default)
entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2005-03-21 10:24 am
Entry tags:

one step closer to stillsuits

The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has been testing a device intended for the space station that would recycle astronauts' sweat, respiration and even urine into drinking water purer than any found in a tap.

[identity profile] marknau.livejournal.com 2005-03-21 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
When are we moving out to Mojave and learning how to ride Worms?

[identity profile] sanspoof.livejournal.com 2005-03-21 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
But in space how can you use heel-pumps? You'd have to have some kind of external power.

Bad idea

[identity profile] skipernicus.livejournal.com 2005-03-21 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, what if you are one of those "no sweat" astronauts?

I'm sorry Mr. Grissom, you both have the same qualifications and credentials, but he's way sweateier than you.

[identity profile] frosch.livejournal.com 2005-03-21 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
All I have to say is, you gotta have BALLS to sit in the banks of the Tennessee River and put out press releases like that.