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• 76 - STM

  Apr 03, 2007 at 1:14 am

  Nalle wrote: "Sheesh, MBD. You've never had to drink your own piss? Guess you weren't in a frat."
  
  WATER FROM PISS
  
  Here's something for you boys, if you're ever stuck in the desert and you have some spare water bottles, a bit of masking or electric tape but no water (which is why everyone should pack that stuff) ... you can actually make water from piss.
  
  You get everyone to piss in one large plastic bottle, but don't fill it, then tape another one to it, top to top so that the necks are facing (so when you lay them down flat - horizontal - facing each other, one at one end and one at another, so they are connected by the open necks). Lay them down and cover the empty bottle with dirt and sand, but leaving the bottle with the piss in it open to the sun.
  
  Condensation then transfers from the hot bottle full of piss to the empty one covered with sand.
  
  Voila ... fresh, drinkable water, and you can live on it indefinitely, or at least until you get rescued - simply by recycling your own piss.
  
  Doesn't taste that good - it's not Evian, put it that way - but it's better than carking it :)
  

• 77 - Clavos

  Apr 03, 2007 at 1:55 am

  Ah, the enlightenment one can glean from these hallowed halls (or screens, as the case may be)...

• 78 - STM

  Apr 03, 2007 at 2:05 am

  Lol. My tip Clav ... stick a couple of one- or two-litre empty water bottles on your boat, and have some electrical tape handy too. You never know mate ...
  
  I believe you can also get drinking water from seawater this way, but I'm not game to try it. Piss, fair enough, but seawater? You just never know where it's been.

• 79 - Clavos

  Apr 03, 2007 at 2:10 am

  Actually, I have a desalinator aboard, Stan. Makes 400 gallons per day by reverse osmosis. Pure as distilled. Cool gadget.

• 80 - MBD

  Apr 03, 2007 at 11:29 am

  This is all well and good, but it's not what Nalle drank at his frat party.
  
  

• 81 - Dave Nalle

  Apr 03, 2007 at 12:17 pm

  MBD you don't drink piss at the frat PARTY, you drink it as part of the hazing process. What is America coming to that these basic activities of youth are no longer common knowledgE?
  
  Dave

• 82 - MBD

  Apr 03, 2007 at 4:37 pm

  “What is America coming to that these basic activities of youth are no longer common knowledge?”
  
  They now pass up swallowing piss after Bill Clinton showed Monica something better to swallow.