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emptybitstoday at 7:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

    "The limiting factor in urine distillation is actually the high level of calcium 
    from disintegrating astronaut bone, a nice example of how problems in space find 
    ways to compound one another."
Sobering. One of the many long term effects of life away from Earth.[1]

With humanity's future probably (?) driving more of us to leave the planet, I'm glad these things are being studied. Where there's a will, there's a way.

[1] "Long-term space missions’ effects on the human organism: what we do know and what requires further research" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10896920


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PowerElectronixtoday at 8:45 PM

They need to come up with either spinning ships or suits that compress you enough to activate the bones (they are piezoelectric so they naturally catch calcium ions when under stress).

imglorptoday at 8:13 PM

They mention a botched drug study but I'm curious why that wasn't redone correctly given how many years we've been at this. And growing plants for that matter. Hop to it guys, we have to get this figured out while we have a station.