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NASA wants to turn astronauts' poop into food
indiatimes.com ^ | IANS

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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1 posted on 08/23/2015 7:37:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

“That wasn’t chicken, Hal...”


2 posted on 08/23/2015 7:38:31 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (SECEDE TEXAS!! If not now, when?)
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To: BenLurkin

I think they must have started testing early with margabby kelley-giffords.


3 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.)
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To: BenLurkin

That trip to Mars will be tougher than originally thought.


4 posted on 08/23/2015 7:40:31 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: BenLurkin
Good luck with that.

Note to self: Cancel astronaut application to NASA.

5 posted on 08/23/2015 7:42:09 AM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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To: BenLurkin

Eating Poop.
Part of NASA Muslim outreach?


6 posted on 08/23/2015 7:42:22 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: BenLurkin

What’s so special about astronaut poop? My dog thinks cat poop is dog treats.


7 posted on 08/23/2015 7:43:23 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: OrangeHoof

The government has been telling us to eat that the last 6 1/2 years.


8 posted on 08/23/2015 7:45:12 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: BenLurkin

They should call them “Gastronauts” instead.


9 posted on 08/23/2015 7:46:09 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: BenLurkin
Assronaut @ss Cream....Yummmmm!


10 posted on 08/23/2015 7:48:49 AM PDT by Daffynition (*We're not descended from*)
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To: BenLurkin

I think NASA’s Hansen should be the prime test monkey on this.


11 posted on 08/23/2015 7:49:23 AM PDT by Gaffer
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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.


12 posted on 08/23/2015 7:49:31 AM PDT by Regulator
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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.


13 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)
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To: BenLurkin

Soylent Brown.


14 posted on 08/23/2015 7:50:29 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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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.


15 posted on 08/23/2015 7:57:12 AM PDT by W. (Get a rope. Now.)
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To: BenLurkin
Really pushing the Mooch's school diet. (This crap is good for you!)

I always wondered about those space food sticks...

16 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.)
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To: BenLurkin

They already have and Taco Bell is marketing it.


17 posted on 08/23/2015 7:57:51 AM PDT by rey
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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.


18 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.)
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To: BenLurkin

All I’d have to say about that is “you first”.


19 posted on 08/23/2015 7:59:06 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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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.


20 posted on 08/23/2015 7:59:21 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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