NASA is sending up a $19 million dollar toilet to the International Poo Space Station today.
They want us to know that it is a very, very special toilet worthy of such a price tag. In fact, it recycles. Astronauts can drink their pee.
A few points:
- for $19 million, I’d drink my own, un-recycled pee…maybe
- seems like for, say a cool million, we could buy a whole lotta diapers
- and perhaps for, say a couple hundred thousand, we could get a trap door crapper flapper from The Home Depot that sends their deposits into the dark abyss of space as a sign that we are alive and well (maybe while we monitor the space continuum for radio signals and water, other worlds look for trails of excrement?)
- how much then does it take to recycle poo and get the astronauts to eat that? now, THAT’S something I’d like to see my tax dollars going to – space poo pies. ;) They could even be frozen like Klondike bars…sorry, too far?
I don’t know. I like tech advancements. I’m waiting on the new, broadband iPhone, changed out my light bulbs to the energy efficient, mercury-filled, landfill polluting twister light bulbs (another blog for another day) and I spent hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars buying new software to work on the $100 Windows Vista that I just had to have.
But I’m sorry, I’m not drinking my own pee to save $100 a year. I’ll take my chances on surviving the next ice age.
Author | Dave Darby
Dave Darby is a husband, father of 5, son, entrepreneur, speaker and well, a renaissance man who frequently needs to dump his brain on thoughts about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
