What the heck is this …
It looks like they are trying to repair the car by doing paper mache on it or something doesn’t it?
I’m sure there’s some logical explanation, but it sure looks odd doesn’t it?
Archives for January 2009
Purified urine to be astronauts’ drinking water
Ew!
NASA has been busy preparing to double the number of astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, nothing may do more for crew bonding than a machine that was launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in November.
It’s a water-recycling device that will process the crew’s urine for communal consumption.
Again … EWwwww!
“We did blind taste tests of the water,” said NASA’s Bob Bagdigian, the system’s lead engineer. “Nobody had any strong objections. Other than a faint taste of iodine, it is just as refreshing as any other kind of water.”
“I’ve got some in my fridge,” he added. “It tastes fine to me.”
The new wasterwater recycling gear is said to cost about $250 million wastewater.
NASA wants to make sure the water recycling system is working well before adding another three astronauts to the station’s crew.
Reusing water will become essential once NASA retires its space shuttles, which produce water as a byproduct of their electrical systems. Rather than dumping the water overboard, NASA has been transferring it to the space station.
NASA expects to process about six gallons (23 liters) of water per day with the new device. The goal is to recover about 92 percent of the water from the crew’s urine and moisture in the air.
The wastewater is processed using an extensive series of purification techniques, including distillation — which is somewhat tricky in microgravity — filtration, oxidation, and ionization.
The final step is the addition of iodine to control microbial growth, Bagdigian said.
The device is intended to process a full day’s worth of wastewater in less than 24 hours.
“Today’s drinking water was yesterday’s waste,” Bagdigian said.
Big bad wolf finally gets Frosty the Snowman
Wordless Wednesday
Oh oh … looks like the big bad wolf finally caught up with Frosty …
It looks like someone put some use to all of the snow we’ve been having lately!
That wolf head looks almost too good to be real doesn’t it? The rest of the photo looks real, but as I said the wolf head looks too good – maybe it’s photoshopped. If someone really did make this wolf kills snowman snowman sculpture they did a good job!
Blown Away
If you think you’ve had it bad with cooler than normal temperatures in the US and Canada over the last week, just be thankful that it never got windy enough to blow you away!
This poor man was caught in a storm last March when Hurricane force winds literally blew him off his feet. What he was doing out there with a flimsy umbrella I don’t know, but he sure got taken for a ride! I hope he didn’t get hurt!