May 21 2009Astronauts Drink Urine, Love Every Drop
Well if those aren't the happy faces of three urine-guzzling fools, I don't know what are.
At the international space station, it was one small sip for man and a giant gulp of recycled urine for mankind.
Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air. They said "cheers," clicked drinking bags and toasted NASA workers on the ground who were sipping their own version of recycled drinking water."The taste is great," American astronaut Michael Barratt said. Then as Russian Gennady Padalka tried to catch little bubbles of the clear water floating in front of him, Barratt called the taste "worth chasing."
"The taste is great". "Worth chasing." Yeah, maybe worth chasing with a glass of battery acid. Just kidding, I'm sure urine is delicious. Like mine, but with less alcohol and cherry pits. *pew pew*
Cheers! Crew drinks up recycled urine in space [msnbc]
Thanks to Jon, who just ordered a case of the stuff because he loves outerspace.
Reader Comments
1. Fadm Notbob - May 21, 2009 12:34 PM
If you think about, every drop of water that you ever drank was someones urine at one point.
2. naas - May 21, 2009 12:35 PM
and that's what makes it disgusting
3. Milkman - May 21, 2009 12:36 PM
That's why you should drink Coca Cola and rot your teef out!
4. Della Torre - May 21, 2009 12:37 PM
Pepsi > coca cola dude
5. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 21, 2009 12:39 PM
Next, stillsuits!
6. Heather - May 21, 2009 12:44 PM
Drinking urine, huh?
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Dude, I got nothing. Ow.
7. actual size - May 21, 2009 12:45 PM
its sterile and i like the taste
8. Proteon - May 21, 2009 12:46 PM
Listen when all you geniuses get to be astronauts maybe you can - oh who are we kidding. Your in that cubicle for life.
9. Spelling Nazi - May 21, 2009 12:48 PM
Sadly you've used "Your" instead of "You're" and therefore everything you've written is entirely invalid.
Next?
10. STOMPY - May 21, 2009 12:52 PM
@GFS
Yes!!! Another Dune Fan!!!! But I'd probably need stilgar to help me put it on...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NYz-T_4chng/RsSPvxGXZOI/AAAAAAAAAL0/WeV8Xve-nRM/s400/101_0201.JPG
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/files/2007/jesus_dinosaur.jpg
11. Clamdigger - May 21, 2009 12:55 PM
You would think spending millions to get there, they could bring enough water or beer for the trip. Don't they drink Tang? Piss Tang new flavor.
12. Angel Mass - May 21, 2009 12:56 PM
This is the coolest thing youll see in all this day, the transformer mouse:
http://www.likecool.com/Trypticon_Transforming_Laser_Mouse--Desktop--Gear.html
http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/05/trypticon-transforming-laser-mouse/
13. Della Torre - May 21, 2009 12:58 PM
@12 ok, that was cool, but idk if I'd shell out $60 for it.
14. Eva - May 21, 2009 12:59 PM
I know about the water cycle and all, but still... yuck!!
15. Daisy - May 21, 2009 1:00 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max had his boils lanced and then drank the juice from a squashed mouse, and pulled the plug on a young boy.
16. Clamdigger - May 21, 2009 1:06 PM
Snacka om adrenalinkick, bättre än Liseberg och Disneyland ihop, skulle jag tro
17. Ollie Williams - May 21, 2009 1:15 PM
Maybe instead of drinking piss, Nasa could invest less shitty looking camera systems.
18. Hawk - May 21, 2009 1:20 PM
Mmmm. Astronaut piss! Think they could sell it down here!?
I love how they at one time crowed about it being as pure as a mountain stream.... is that the same stream comprised mostly of acid rain that bears piss in!?
19. Fadm Notbob - May 21, 2009 1:25 PM
What #16 (Clamdigger) said:
Talk about an adrenalin kick, better than Liseberg and Disneyland together, I believe
20. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 21, 2009 1:26 PM
This wasn't Goliath's urine. It was his drink stirrer. Or penis...
21. Clamdigger - May 21, 2009 1:27 PM
Is it me or does this Baby Ruth taste like shit?
22. 1st, 2nd, 3rd Police - May 21, 2009 1:49 PM
GW is Funny
23. che-che - May 21, 2009 1:53 PM
its got ELECTROLYTES! its what plants crave!
24. Heather - May 21, 2009 2:04 PM
23: Idiocracy FTW!
25. Pew³ - May 21, 2009 2:11 PM
Kevin Costner drinks his own urine.
He has webbed feet and gills.
26. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 21, 2009 2:15 PM
@10
Forget the Federation, Screw the Jedi, it's all about Fedaykin baby!
27. aids - May 21, 2009 2:25 PM
They Like Drinking urine but when you piss on someone you get in trouble for it hmmmm????
http://std-aids.mybrute.com
28. Leonidas - May 21, 2009 8:35 PM
I used to love drinking mine, but I gave up because my aim is way off.
29. livingjetlag - May 21, 2009 9:17 PM
Just the thing for rehydrating your astronaut ice cream.
30. GLADIATOR - May 21, 2009 9:34 PM
ONLY A BUMCH OF NERDS WOULD LOVE THE TASTE OF THEIR OWN URINE!
NOW WHICH ONE OF YOU WOMENZ IS GONNA GIVE THE URINE DRINKING DUDE A BIG WET KISS? HE WANTS A NICE SLOPPY ONE!!!! :))))))))))))
Come and join the short and easy game mybrute:
http://burpnassker.mybrute.com
31. Russ Ian - May 21, 2009 10:39 PM
In Russia Piss drinks YOU.
32. Elboxo - May 22, 2009 12:13 AM
brings a whole new meaning to the word "pissheads"
33. Crazywow - May 22, 2009 12:45 AM
Brings a whole new meaning to " gettin' pissed "
34. Clamdigger - May 22, 2009 1:21 AM
Brings a whole new meaning to getting "piss drunk"
35. Jaded Icon - May 22, 2009 7:19 AM
Quick question. If they drink each others piss bag does that make them gay?
36. Rhialto - May 22, 2009 9:33 AM
For a body there isn't much difference whether you drink urine or water.This recycle system proves that NASA cares about its people.
37. Galtacticus - May 22, 2009 9:36 AM
When are they going to recycle poop to food?
38. yan - May 22, 2009 2:01 PM
"its why i drink urine... because it's steril...
..and i like the taste"
39. tony b-licious - May 22, 2009 5:13 PM
"pew pew"
oh damn. that was great! geekologie, i <3 u so!
40. Ricky Rollo - August 31, 2009 10:34 PM
All those millions and billions of dollars spent and all they can come up with is drinking recycled piss? I can save NASA Billions by sitting on my couch and drinking my own piss without shooting a rocket into space that has to go 7 miles a second to break the Earth's atmosphere. I would drink the female astronaut's piss without being recycled. maybe one of those hot Russian cosmonaut numbers.
Do you think those dudes up there in that space station wack-off?