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NASA sports drink: The Right Stuff
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 2009-06-30 5:41 PM |
Pro  3932      Irvine, California |  Subject: NASA sports drink: The Right StuffJust came across this article about NASA allowing a company in CO to sell a sports drink derived from years of their research. It sounds like it's mostly meant to guarantee proper hydration levels, as it doesn't contain any calories: http://nexus404.com/Blog/2009/06/05/the-right-stuff-nasa-patented-rehydration-formula-now-available/ It's also really expensive. Anyone inclined to give it a try, or do you think it's just clever marketing for little more than water plus some electrolytes? |
| 2009-06-30 6:09 PM in reply to: #2254307 |
Elite 4048 Gilbert, Az. | Subject: RE: NASA sports drink: The Right Stuff Tripolar - 2009-06-30 3:41 PM Just came across this article about NASA allowing a company in CO to sell a sports drink derived from years of their research. It sounds like it's mostly meant to guarantee proper hydration levels, as it doesn't contain any calories: http://nexus404.com/Blog/2009/06/05/the-right-stuff-nasa-patented-rehydration-formula-now-available/ It's also really expensive. Anyone inclined to give it a try, or do you think it's just clever marketing for little more than water plus some electrolytes? I can't say without seeing the ingredients (which they don't apparently publish on the site, gee, wonder why), but I'd guess it's more hype than anything. Manufacturing: done in a clean, aseptic manufacturing facility (also produces pharmaceuticals) on special equipment that forms, fills and seals the vial all in one step, insuring efficacy at the point of delivery! I love marketspeak. How does forming/filling/sealing it in one step ensure anything at point of delivery? And they are also misusing the word efficacy, it doesn't belong in the context they are using it. Brought to you by the same people that used an inches base to give metric measurements on a satellite John |
| 2009-06-30 6:16 PM in reply to: #2254307 |
Champion 8936 | Subject: RE: NASA sports drink: The Right Stuff |
| 2009-07-01 9:52 AM in reply to: #2254307 |
| Veteran 277 Syracuse, NY | Subject: RE: NASA sports drink: The Right Stuff You might not like it after reading this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/05/nasa_licences_space_drink/ Excerpt: Nowadays, as is well known to regular Reg readers, the tricky problem of recycling every last drop of water from human and animal wastes - urine etc - has at last been satisfactorily solved. The new six-person crews of the International Space Station, the main human spaceflight activity of the coming decade, will quench their thirst with refreshments mixed primarily from self-sourced liquids. And it's not just the astronauts who give every last drop to keep the taps flowing aboard the ISS. As NASA's Layne Carter reveals, a full experimental complement of 72 rats aboard the space station equals "about one human in terms of water reclamation". The Right Stuff™ as quaffed in space is mixed six parts to one from recycled human and rat sweat and urine respectively. A urine-based sports drink! Yum! |
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