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Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by unsnap_biceps on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:11PM (#42505635)
My pet theory is that Star Trek just beams the waste out of folks automatically.
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by hk1337 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:53PM (#42505840)
My understanding is the waste gets resequenced and used to create other items.

* Enterprise - S1E8 Breaking the Ice

> Tucker: The first thing you've got to understand is we recycle pretty much everything on a starship. That includes waste, and the first thing that happens to the waste is it gets processed through a machine called a bio-matter resequencer. Then it gets broken down into.

> So the waste is broken down into little molecules and then they get transformed into any number of things we can use on the ship. Cargo containers, insulation, boots, you name it.

* Discovery - S3E12 There is a tide...

> Admiral Charles Vance: It's made of our shit, you know.

> That's the base material that we use in our replicators. We deconstruct it to the atomic level and then reform the atoms.

Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by jsheard on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:15PM (#42505655)
Hopefully no beta testers had their guts beamed into space by accident when they were dialing it in. What a way to go.
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by ceejayoz on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:00PM (#42505873)
The frequency with which the supposedly mature tech glitches out would have me very leery of using it for mundane purposes daily.
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by hyhconito on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:18PM (#42505667)
Having spent an uncomfortable and expensive night in a foreign hospital after creating my own personal fatberg, this sounds like a technological innovation that would bring tears of joy rather than stress to my eyes.
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by dylan604 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:19PM (#42505675)
anyone with kidney stones would be interested as well
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by smitelli on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:47PM (#42506063)
Maybe give my arteries a quick scrape while you’re in there.
Re:macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank... by hyhconito on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:20PM (#42505679)
Oh yeah been there too. Imagine the day you could beam them out!