Laura: NASA developed a urine purification system for the astronauts. The idea was scrapped, though. Even though the process made urine safe to drink, they didn’t think the astronauts could deal with it mentally.

Anne: Astronauts are such fucking prima donnas.

Laura: Yeah, it seems that when you send a guy into the void of space, with inhumanly cramped quarters, artificial air, and no gravity or solid food, he’s not really emotionally equipped to drink his own waste.

Anne: Oh man, I’m gonna have some strange nightmares behind this.

Once again, Kyle Baker is ahead of the rest of us when it comes to anticipating what’s coming our way next, or something like that.

David Seidman

So, the ISS is pISS-poor because the “whiz-bang” technology isn’t working?

We could import water from Mars, but we might as well import it from the Earth, but that costs $40,000 a gallon. Aside from the wastes in the actual fluid, urine is sterile, so if you gotta, it’s better than seawater.

And according to Wired Magazine, the filtered water is better than tap water. And yes, it is being put to use down here, to filter contaminated ground water.

(hmm… imagine your bathroom with a bidet and a toilet. One purifies and recycles the urine for later flushing, one connects to the sewer.)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/urine.html

…and then all we need is for Kevin Costner to grow some gills.