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When I was in grade school, I did a science fair project on waste treatment.
In 1996, I went to Star Trek: One Weekend on Earth (30th Anniversary) in Huntsville, AL. NASA was there with a mock-up of the ISS. While the space toilet was a big photo-op, no one was talking with the engineer there who’d worked on what the ISS does with what goes into the space toilet. I think I made his day when I could talk with him about anaerobic digesters and purification of liquid waste and how waste treatment in space compares with municipal waste treatment here on earth.
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Holy 2.301, that’s complicated! My desire for space travel just diminished a bit.
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I will not be satisfied until someone explains the three seashells.
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