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Re:Off the Grid by ketanmaheshwari on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:17PM (#30032123)
Could you share some references for your claim. I have always heard, read and understood that urine is sterile.
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Re:Off the Grid by entropie on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:23PM (#30032158)
This is probably one of the worst "urban" legends that exist.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/urine-not-ster...

Its literaly a 5 second google search.

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Re:Off the Grid by parrellel on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:23PM (#30032162)
Someone discovered that there are extremophiles in the urinary tract. They... aren't actually a threat because extremophiles.
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Re:Off the Grid by solididiot on Saturday January 22, 2022 @07:56AM (#30036250)
If it where sterile then we wouldn't test it in medical tests.
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Re:Off the Grid by sophacles on Saturday January 22, 2022 @11:40AM (#30038186)
Whether or not it's sterile seems to me a completely independent variable from whether or not it's useful to test. Seeing as how it's not completely water, but rather water with various things dissolved in it, the relative levels of those dissolved compounds would something that could be worth knowing.
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