There are a lot of fascinating things about space travel. Weightlessness. Looking down and being able to see your whole planet. Not showering for weeks. If you get thirsty on your trip, it's not like you can jog over to the nearest Quickie-Mart for a beverage. So what's a parched astronaut to do?
Drink distilled urine.
The next shuttle trip will be delivering a piss-meister to the international space station, where it will crank out faint yellow-colored water with an undertone of asparagus that is eaten from a tube. Yum.
According to NASA, earth-bound blind taste testers couldn't tell the difference between normal tap water and the recycled remains of yesterday's Starbucks. I'm wondering what sin a person needs to commit to be assigned to the NASA taste-testing program.
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