Current Events > Microbes may help astronauts transform human waste into food.

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http://news.psu.edu/story/502406/2018/01/25/microbes-may-help-astronauts-transform-human-waste-food

Human waste may one day be a valuable resource for astronauts on deep-space missions. Now, a Penn State research team has shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid and liquid waste to grow food with a series of microbial reactors, while simultaneously minimizing pathogen growth.

"We envisioned and tested the concept of simultaneously treating astronauts' waste with microbes while producing a biomass that is edible either directly or indirectly depending on safety concerns," said Christopher House, professor of geosciences, Penn State. "It's a little strange, but the concept would be a little bit like Marmite or Vegemite where you're eating a smear of 'microbial goo.'"

The researchers' study addresses multiple challenges facing deep-space missions to Mars or beyond, which would likely take months or years. Bringing enough food from Earth takes up volume and increases the mass and fuel cost of the spacecraft, while growing food in route using hydroponic or other methods would be an energy- and water-intensive process that takes up valuable room.

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I guess that's a new meaning to the phrase, "Eat shit". >_>
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Solar_Crimson posted...

I guess that's a new meaning to the phrase, "Eat shit". >_>

now people will have to come up with a new one soon since that one will be a good thing eventually
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SOYLENT GREEN lS SHIT!
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As we find our place....on the path unwinding...

EverDownward posted...

SOYLENT GREEN lS SHIT!

LMAO!!!

Astronaut 1: When's dinner?

Astronaut 2: In a couple of minutes.

Heads to the bathroom.
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when they put this shit out as a commercial product (pun intended), the logo should be like an ouroboros, but instead of a snake eating its own tail, it's a man propped upside down against a wall shitting in his mouth

The logo would be tubgirl.

omg I don't want to be an early deep space explorer. that sounds pretty bad. it will get better when we have faster than light speed travel and don't need to worry so much.

LOL faster than lightspeed travel.

TheGrindery posted...

LOL faster than lightspeed travel.

it won't happen til we are all long dead. but I think it will happen someday. maybe by the 25th century

You should join science forums and troll with that, man. It'll be the easiest trolling you've ever done.

You think the water you're drinking now doesn't have George Washington's pee in it? Hmmm

Complete_Idi0t posted...

You think the water you're drinking now doesn't have George Washington's pee in it? Hmmm

or dinosaur pee. all water on earth has probably been something's pee