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NASA licences rat-wee based astronaut sports drink

Anonymous Coward

The Rat Stuff? 

Joke

As they might say in Yorkshire.

Anonymous Coward

Too late... 

Unhappy

I know a Pub that has been selling Rat Pi$$ by the pint for years.

Michael

Makes Dr Pepper look drinkable... 

Happy

.....remember dasani? - "what's the worst that can happen?"

Glen Forde

Hehehe 

Happy

"self-sourced liquids" - very welcome smiles on Friday.

Yorkshirepudding

scifi drinks 

Coat

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. 

"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 

Boffin

"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.

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Cameron Colley

RE: scifi drinks 

You forgot Moloko Velocet etc.

Perry

In space nobody can hear your stream 

Alien

IGMC

John Kirkwood

Rat's pi$$? 

So that'll be any kind of lager then?

TeeCee

Dasani 

Coat

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 

Actually it's an ale. ;)

http://www.oldratspiss.co.uk/

Mark

nb4 

Coat

Tang?

Jerome

@ Seanmon 

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! 

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 

Boffin

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Jord

Just wondering.... 

How exactly do they extract the piss from the rats....?

Martin

@Just wondering.... 

Signs on the cages saying "prudence", "recovery is just around the corner", "I have the full support of my party"

Jerome

@ Jord 

Coat

"You long-tailed red-eyed furry little bastards."

Sorry, but you were asking for that.

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