Thursday, May 21, 2009

science and progress

i dunno whether to be grossed out or amazed... i think i'm leaning towards the first though. astronauts have made incredible headway in lightening the loads of spaceships. now, they don't have to carry drinking water. they can recycle water. yes, they turn urine and wastewater back into water suitable or drinking and bathing and all that other good stuff. they had a whole celebration with the recycled water recently, drinking it out of clear pouches that say the water was brought by ECLSS. the water recycling system cost $250 million and will be used daily on ships. cool and gross.

cool random fact: every minute, twenty hours of video are uploaded to youtube.

*The Scientist - Coldplay

2 comments:

  1. anonymous hippopotamusJune 7, 2011 at 12:00 PM

    only 20 hours? that doesn't seem like much.

    and i remember reading this and being too disgusted to comment. not cool at all. because you never know how clean the recycling system makes the water..for all you know you could be drinking half filtered pee. YUCK!

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  2. yeah really gross. and i bet the youtube number has gone up alot in the past two years.

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