NASA licences rat-wee based astronaut sports drink
Anonymous Coward
The Rat Stuff? #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 11:56 GMT

As they might say in Yorkshire.
Anonymous Coward
Too late... #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 12:02 GMT

I know a Pub that has been selling Rat Pi$$ by the pint for years.
Michael
Makes Dr Pepper look drinkable... #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 12:02 GMT

.....remember dasani? - "what's the worst that can happen?"
Glen Forde
Hehehe #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 12:02 GMT

"self-sourced liquids" - very welcome smiles on Friday.
Yorkshirepudding
scifi drinks #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 12:16 GMT

no ambrosia?
no blue milk?
no prune juice (a warriors drink!)
no canaar?
bah!
mines the one with the bottle of romulan ale in the pocket
Anonymous Coward
What a lovely press release. #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 12:23 GMT
"Astronauts continue to use the patented formula on space missions to prevent the symptoms of dehydration."
Shame it doesn't actually prevent dehydration, that might be even more useful!
Seanmon
Ahem #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 13:02 GMT

"far more pure and healthy than average tap water (or even bottled)"
Tap water (in the UK at least) is purified and regulated to a far higher standard than bottled.
</nitpick>
Cameron Colley
RE: scifi drinks #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 13:37 GMT
You forgot Moloko Velocet etc.
Perry
In space nobody can hear your stream #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 13:37 GMT

IGMC
John Kirkwood
Rat's pi$$? #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 13:37 GMT
So that'll be any kind of lager then?
TeeCee
Dasani #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 14:24 GMT

Since that turned out to be made from Thames tap, there was probably a fair amount of recycled rat piss in there too.
Makes you wonder why they bothered adding the carcinogens.
Lewis Wernham
@John Kirkwood #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 14:26 GMT
Actually it's an ale. ;)
http://www.oldratspiss.co.uk/
Mark
nb4 #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 14:26 GMT

Tang?
Jerome
@ Seanmon #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 14:42 GMT
Sure, if by "purified and regulated" you mean pumped full of so much damn chlorine that it tastes like drinking a swimming pool.
Haku
Drink Brawndo - It's Got Electrolytes! #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 15:26 GMT
I have this sudden flashback to Mike Judge's film "Idiocracy" where the no.1 drink is called Brawndo (it's got electrolytes), where it's dispensed from drinking fountains and they even try to water the crops with it.
Then some nutcase turned it into a real drink - http://www.brawndo.com
It's got what plants crave!
It's got electrolytes!
Anonymous Coward
@Seanmon #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 15:26 GMT

<pedant>
Unaccompanied closing tag
</pedant>
Jord
Just wondering.... #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 16:17 GMT
How exactly do they extract the piss from the rats....?
Martin
@Just wondering.... #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 21:53 GMT
Signs on the cages saying "prudence", "recovery is just around the corner", "I have the full support of my party"
Jerome
@ Jord #
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 21:53 GMT

"You long-tailed red-eyed furry little bastards."
Sorry, but you were asking for that.