Astronauts Drink Your Urine. They Drink It Up!

Astronauts at the International Space Station, for the first time, drank “water” that had been recycled from condensed exhaled air, sweat, aaaand peepee.  They drank it, and they loved it.

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.

“Tastes just like Mom used to make.” 

It’s ok, though, because you only drink it when no other water is around, like on the moon:

He said the water came with labels that said: “drink this when real water is over 200 miles away.”

The urine recycling system is needed for astronaut outposts on the moon and Mars. It also will save NASA money because it won’t have to ship up as much water to the station by space shuttle or cargo rockets.

If that isn’t the best argument for environmentalists, I don’t know what is.  “Take care of our planet, because when it’s ruined, we’ll all have to move to Mars and drinking f*cking piss all day.”

Some people may find the idea of drinking recycled urine distasteful, but it is also done on Earth.

The Japan part, specifically.

Source: MSNBC.