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NASA wants to turn astronauts' poop into food
indiatimes.com ^
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Posted on 08/23/2015 7:37:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Using urine and breathed-out carbon dioxide as the building blocks to create useful aboard items, the team is genetically engineering yeast to produce things that astronauts may need.
"A particular strain of yeast can be genetically manipulated to create polymers, or plastics, used for 3D printing, as well as Omega 3s, which lower heart disease risk, and protect skin and hair," Mark Blenner, professor at Clemson, was quoted as saying in a Quartz report.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:37:23 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
“That wasn’t chicken, Hal...”
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:38:31 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(SECEDE TEXAS!! If not now, when?)
To: BenLurkin
I think they must have started testing early with margabby kelley-giffords.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:40:14 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
To: BenLurkin
That trip to Mars will be tougher than originally thought.
To: BenLurkin
Good luck with that.
Note to self: Cancel astronaut application to NASA.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:42:09 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(FReeping on CRUZ Control)
To: BenLurkin
Eating Poop.
Part of NASA Muslim outreach?
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:42:22 AM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: BenLurkin
What’s so special about astronaut poop? My dog thinks cat poop is dog treats.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:43:23 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: OrangeHoof
The government has been telling us to eat that the last 6 1/2 years.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:45:12 AM PDT
by
Sasparilla
(If you want peace, prepare for war.)
To: BenLurkin
They should call them “Gastronauts” instead.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:46:09 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: BenLurkin
Assronaut @ss Cream....Yummmmm!
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:48:49 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(*We're not descended from*)
To: BenLurkin
I think NASA’s Hansen should be the prime test monkey on this.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:49:23 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: BenLurkin
Yeah. Instead of getting a low cost launch vehicle going on time and routinely into orbit, they waste time on crap like this.
Build a bigger rocket. Launch some Wheaties on it.
To: BenLurkin
If astronauts don’t get real food from once-living plants and animals they will not be healthy.
Anyone who thinks he can get nutrients from what remains after the body removes the nutrients, is full of poop.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:49:36 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:50:29 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: I want the USA back
You make a valid point. If they do what they say, they’ll look like a bunch of graymeat vegan twigboys, in short order.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:57:12 AM PDT
by
W.
(Get a rope. Now.)
To: BenLurkin
Really pushing the Mooch's school diet. (This crap is good for you!)
I always wondered about those space food sticks...
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:57:27 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: BenLurkin
They already have and Taco Bell is marketing it.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:57:51 AM PDT
by
rey
To: BenLurkin
They are not the 1st to do this. Been to a few restaurants in my life time that I suspect have tried this.
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posted on
08/23/2015 7:58:27 AM PDT
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: BenLurkin
All I’d have to say about that is “you first”.
To: BenLurkin
I have no problem at all with this program. Don't forget, everything is included in the table below. You just have to move the bits around sometimes to create Shinola.
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