Fancy a bit of that recyled rat piss flavour on earth? Well you don't have to wait!! Buy a can of budwieser today!

To welcome our new piss quaffing low earth orbiting overlords

they simply could have staffed the station with fetish-loving German porn stars...they don't even need the recycler!

Paris...well, you know...

Blackadder: “Well Baldrick I guess we’d better start drinking our own Urine”.

Baldrick: “I’ve been drinking mine for weeks now!”

I am sure they are SPF rats (specific pathogen free). If not we might have a nasty case of Leptospirosis on board... Well, if not, they are still taking the piss....

"A full complement of 72 rats would equal about one human in terms of water reclamation,"

Right, I'm off to have about 10 rats worth.

"A full complement of 72 rats would equal about one human in terms of water reclamation,"

But what about actual usage? My school biology is a little rusty, (too much exposure to water?) but does the human body not actually _use_ water for something or other? I know that most of it comes out as sweat and piss, but surely not all, so 'wee' need to know that ratio.

...looks like something that Egon Spengler would store a class 4 fully-formed free-roaming ectoplasm in.

/nerd mode off

And the award for the most puns in a single story goes to El Reg.

Once we have that number up a bit more, whos for hosting the next series of Big Brother up there?

Watching them drink (unrecycled, preferably) rat's piss won't be nearly as much fun as watching them being 'evicted' through an airlock each week.

Headlines like this make me want a print version of el reg to take to the office.

Increasingly, terrestrial metropolitan areas will be forced to similar recycling.

actually ol' son, in one of the northern Antipodean burgs of Oz, this was the Next Big Thing.

Right up until the floods started a few months ago.

<<We have completely checked out the system from end to end>>

Yep, right. Being Friday I'm going out to get rat-faced.

Lewis owes me yet another keyboard.

Ditch the mediaeval superstition and stuff, will you?

Every molecule of hydrogen oxide on this planet has been through someone, or something, several times already. In a smaller environment, where there are fewer molecules of hydrogen oxide to go around, what else are you supposed to do?

Given that you can't (probably) train a rat bouncing around in microgravity to use a miniature space-pisser, I suppose there must just be some way of extracting the moisture which appears in the murine environment (hopefully separated from the human environment). A worse possibility is my vision of six dozen pinioned and catheterized rodents doing their bit for recycling and the advancement of science, while wishing for a nice homely sewer somewhere.