Journal zogger's Journal: Astropiss disses ISS 3
Space station "waste liquids" recycling gear getting plugged up from too much calcium in urine
Goofy, but space faring long range idea & thought. Maybe they should look to recycling the reclaimed calcium, and make supplement tablets for the astronauts from it.
Funny, but... (Score:2)
THIS is one of the reasons for having the ISS up there. I know it's a funny topic, but there are a lot of nitty-gritty problems like this that just don't get solved until you actually try. The ISS comes under so much fire for being useless and over budget, and by some perspectives it is both. But it is also the biggest orbital engineering experiment we've ever tried. Some have said that we've learned, the Soviets had already learned on their space stations, but I really don't think so - there's a signif
Correct (Score:1)
I agree with you, and why I about instantly thought of turning this liability into an asset on the ISS. If they are losing calcium, and the filter system seems to be able to collect it readily, they need to recycle it. They already drink the recycled whizz, so popping the recycled calcium back in should be about as easy.
The real next step is to figure out how to avoid the bone loss,though, but so far, even with exercise machines, etc, it still occurs. Maybe they really do need those slow spinning stations t
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Incidentally, speaking of spinning wheels, have you seen "Avatar" yet? I think that the starship in "Avatar" looks more like Clarke's description of the Discovery in the novel version of "2001: A Space Odyssey" than the Discovery from the movie version did. Both versions of Discovery had a wheel for the crew, and in the movie it was enclosed in the crew sphere. I don't know if it was enclosed in the novel version, but I do think that the wheel diameter was too small in the movie, and had they used it for