NASA makes an unusual request
Workplace got you down? Is your boss making a lot of ridiculous demands? Are your bi-hourly trips to the bathroom the only time you get some peace? Not if you work for NASA.
Apparently, employees at NASA are being required to donate their urine to help contractors build a rocket ship that will eventually take astronauts to the moon. Stick with me now.
According to USA Today, urine is a big problem for astronauts because of the amounts of solids that it contains (unlike water), which can gum up the precise plumbing needed to rid the rocket of its waste. Engineers working on the moon shuttle Orion need "30 liters a day, which translates into nearly 8 gallons ... or about the daily output of 30 people" to test various methods of flushing Orion's extraterrestrial toilet.
Now, I'm sure you, like I, have a plethora of questions:
How much would it suck to be the engineer in charge of that project? Talk about drawing the short straw. And those poor employees just minding their own business, so to speak, suddenly being required to drop trow for science? And how, exactly, are the scientists collecting the specimens? And, what did the memo that top brass sent out say when they asked for all this excrement?
I'm so giggly and red-faced that I have to go before I stray into some bad potty-mouthed humor. LOL Catch you on the flip side!
Apparently, employees at NASA are being required to donate their urine to help contractors build a rocket ship that will eventually take astronauts to the moon. Stick with me now.
According to USA Today, urine is a big problem for astronauts because of the amounts of solids that it contains (unlike water), which can gum up the precise plumbing needed to rid the rocket of its waste. Engineers working on the moon shuttle Orion need "30 liters a day, which translates into nearly 8 gallons ... or about the daily output of 30 people" to test various methods of flushing Orion's extraterrestrial toilet.
Now, I'm sure you, like I, have a plethora of questions:
How much would it suck to be the engineer in charge of that project? Talk about drawing the short straw. And those poor employees just minding their own business, so to speak, suddenly being required to drop trow for science? And how, exactly, are the scientists collecting the specimens? And, what did the memo that top brass sent out say when they asked for all this excrement?
I'm so giggly and red-faced that I have to go before I stray into some bad potty-mouthed humor. LOL Catch you on the flip side!
Labels: moon shuttle, NASA, Orion, USA Today
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