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Did You Know That the Atlantis Astronauts Are Testing a New Urine Filtration Device?
What will scientists think of next? We've all been bombarded in recent years with a steady influx of new technologies, from flat screens to computers to smart phones, and all the other gadgets we've come to depend on in our daily lives. It's not uncommon for people to get the latest gadget even when they don't necessarily need it. However, one invention that astronauts are currently testing likely won't get much attention from consumers. You simply put urine into this device and it will output a sports drink.
Most people wouldn't dare to drink filtered urine Most of us wouldn't drink urine unless our lives depended on it. The space program, however, is looking to the future. Currently human wastes generated in space are either sent back to Earth to be disposed of or released into the atmosphere where they rapidly turn to gases and are absorbed. Astronauts are hoping that by developing ways to filter urine turning it into something they can drink will help solve future problems of having enough water to survive.
Urine isn't actually being used currently though. Dirty water is being used instead. The device may be affected thanks to the zero-gravity conditions in space, and it's vital that they test it and find out. They are also not going to be drinking the results. This isn't the case yet. Current water filtration systems onboard spacecraft and at the Internation space station require electricity in order to operate, and electricity is not readily available in space. Instead of relying on electricity, the devices utilize forward osmosis instead. They'll need to conduct more testing if they want to see if the resulting liquid will taste good and if it's safe for them to drink.
The people on Earth certainly wouldn't appreciate having to drink recycled urine. Fortunately for us, our reliance on this technology seems to be very, very far off into the future. This technology may end up saving our species someday.Doc No.sdlkh-sdAE
Kristie Brown writes on a variety of topics from health to technology. Check out her websites on Portable water purification system and Water filtration system
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.NET 2.0 Interoperability Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach $79.99 .NET represents a new and improved way of developing software for the Windows platform. Given the chance, you’d probably rewrite all of your existing code in the newer managed code environment that .NET provides. But it is difficult or impossible to throw out all existing legacy code and start over when a new technology arrives. Instead, you need to find a way to move forward with new .NET development while reusing existing pieces of tested, working code. You need a way to interoperate with the existing code until you have a chance to finally rewrite all of it in .NET.The only recipe-style book on the subject, .NET 2.0 Interoperability Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach guides Windows developers who are transitioning from native Windows code to .NET managed code..NET tools will allow you to interoperate with existing code. But finding the appropriate tool for the task at hand can sometimes be a frustrating experience. So this book will guide you past myriad infrequently used interop options to focus on those youll use most often.Table of Contents Using C-Style APIs C-Style APIs: Structures, Classes, and Arrays Win32 API Using C++ Interop Using COM Exposing Managed Code to COM Marshaling to COM Clients COM+ Enterprise Services COM+ Enterprise Services Transactions |