Dan O'Brien: Portfolio

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

NASA astronauts to drink their own urine today?

Yes this is true! NASA is currently experimenting with the idea...they are planning on testing the process on several upcoming flights...the astronaughts, at this time, however will not be drinking their own waste....they just want to check to see if the process will work in outer space. There is no reason to believe it won't and so they will eventually get to the point when that is the norm. It is very difficult to keep astronaughts hydrated in space and this is a way of making that alot easier. Most people's stomachs turn at the idea but the astronaughts were actually quite fine with it...They want whatever is easiest and safest-after all their jobs are already hard enough as it is. I now, leave off with a quote from http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10098084-71.html..."The final gourmet touch is the addition of that little smidgen of iodine to control microbial growth. Which I'm assuming is something to do with little mites feeding on your waste and having babies half way down your throat."...um...that's only slightly revolting....
this is Dan O'Brien...signing out!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A New Kind of Animal...

This is a picture I created in Photoshop Elements. It is a new animal created out of images of several other animals. All of the animals I used currently can be found in Australia. I used a platypus' head and tail, a rare type of fish, and a crocodile's arm.