if they had shared their output with each other, would that make it split pee soup?
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2024
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Arrgh, go forth and help the homeless or something, do penance.
Take your upvote and get out.
I have never been so simultaneously disappointed and proud
That's how water recycling works on the ISS, and it's not specific to those two astronauts. Pretty similar to how water recycling works down on Earth too.
Also, the Crew-9 capsule launched with two empty seats, so they aren't even stranded ~~anymore~~.
If we want to be pedantic, it's how it works IRL too. All the water on Earth has been here for an eternity, with all its piss, feces, cadavers and whatnot inside of it. Completely fine if properly reprocessed.
If you want to be really pedantic, water is created and destroyed all the time, it's just a relatively stable process. Water is destroyed in the upper atmosphere and by lightning, and is created in volcanic eruptions and combustion. (Among many other ways)
Speaking of pedantic, matter is never actually truly destroyed.
Water can definitely be destroyed.
To be more pedantic, matter can be "destroyed" by converting it to energy. The sun does this at a rate of 4 million tonnes (4 teragrams) per second.
E=mc²
We're all drinking dinosaur pee down here
And trilobite pee. And Shark pee. And woolly mammoth pee. And each other's pee.
It's pee all the way down.
We're all just bags of wee experiencing being with the illusion of individuality.
May piece wee in your hearts and Orishas lead your wee.
They were never stranded. This is just bullshit.
Good point. Starliner was always the plan in the event of an emergency evacuation, and there was also "lie on the floor of the Crew-8 Dragon" as a backup for the brief period between empty the Starliner return and the launch of Crew-9.
Really? Le big bags of wee can travel back to Earth on the deck in an emergency? What about the g forces? I thought the 'nauts needed custom molded seats to help distribute the force over the lungs, cardiovascular, etc. so they don't pass out as easily. Seriously, can I have the sauce?
I suppose "lie on the floor" was a bit of an exaggeration. It likely would have involved the transfer of the seats, or at least the seat liners, from Starliner.
NASA didn't release much info on the contingency plans, but there was brief mention of it in an ARS Technica article a while back: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/yes-nasa-really-could-bring-starliners-astronauts-back-on-crew-dragon/
NASA issued a $266,678 task award to SpaceX on July 14 for a "special study for emergency response." NASA said this study was not directly related to Starliner's problems, but two sources told Ars it really was. Although the study entailed work on flying more than four crew members home on Crew Dragon—a scenario related to Frank Rubio and the Soyuz MS-22 leaks—it also allowed SpaceX to study flying Dragon home with six passengers, a regular crew complement in addition to Wilmore and Williams.
In my opinion, the biggest risk unmitigatable risk would have been the lack of ports in Dragon for Butch and Suni to plug their Starliner IVA suits into.
I think NASA released a photo of the makeshift seats. Probably around the time they were dismantled, after Crew-9 had arrived. Can't find it though.
Ah, ok, big canisters of air mix to secure them (with coated cable ties?) next to the improvised seats and all linked to the state of the art Boeing made suits, so they can breathe, at least. Perfection. XD
Anyone know what the efficiency is on those water recyclers? Would love to see the specs, but I’m not having any luck finding it.
Thank you! May your casserole be evenly rehydrated.
Thanks!
What's the difference between roast beef and pee soup?
Anybody can roast beef, but nobody can- wait a minute...
Strict hydration schedule for you!
Difference between a chickpea and a garbonzo bean.
I've never paid $200 to have a garbonzo bean on my face.
Is that that "Bear Grill" guy?
Yeah, aka the: I drank my own pee and slept in a hotel 'adventurer'
At that point it's just a fetish