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Future Fecal Food: Recycling Poo As Food

escargot

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Something for the astronauts' toast! o_O

Astronauts could one day eat goo made from their poo

Would you like some dungemite on your toast?

Astronauts on deep-space missions could recycle their own feces to make food.


Penn State researchers developed a system that combines microbes with human waste to help create food.

Geosciences professor Christopher House describes the resulting substance as "a little bit like Marmite or Vegemite where you're eating a smear of 'microbial goo.'"

'Dungemite' :chuckle:
 
First reaction;

Interesting spread on toast! My favourite!

Second reaction;

What is a geoscientist doing with food??
 
In one of the recent Star Trek Discovery episodes, they did actually mention how the food replicators use poo goo as the base material.
 
We've had that for years here in the U.S. We call it "Arby's" . . .
 
You all do know the source of many fertilizers, at least the natural ones...
 
Or where the astronauts on the ISS get their water from.
 
The rather good brewery Nørrebro Bryghus made a beer a few years ago, brewed with the purified urine of festivalgoers at the Roskilde Festival. Knowing festivalgoers, I wonder if they managed to filter out the illicit substances as well.
 
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