SpaceflightMemes @sh.itjust.works threelonmusketeers @sh.itjust.works 2d ago

Technically correct, but what a headline

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if they had shared their output with each other, would that make it split pee soup?
- I have never been so simultaneously disappointed and proud
- Take your upvote and get out.
What's the difference between roast beef and pee soup?

Anybody can roast beef, but nobody can- wait a minute...
- Difference between a chickpea and a garbonzo bean.
  
  I've never paid $200 to have a garbonzo bean on my face.
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)
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 70%
  
  Via
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISS_ECLSS#Water_recovery_systems
  
  Thanks!
- Is that that "Bear Grill" guy?
  
  Yeah, aka the: I drank my own pee and slept in a hotel 'adventurer'

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