Monthly Archives: August 2005

No need for the drains now?

I remember I was at this exhibition once with a friend where a company was proudly displaying their “state-of-the-art” water purification system. We got into a discussion regarding the features and capabilities of the unit with the company representative and during the course of this discussion, the guy went on to claim, perhaps going a tad over the top as he was to later realize at his peril, that you could connect “sewage water” to it’s inlet and it would still give you pure water. “No need to flush our stuff away then, eh?” was what my friend came up with almost instantly. Needless to say, that was the end of the discussion.

NASA has come up with something similar – well almost. A technology that would recycle your urine and make it “safe for drinking”. Would save NASA millions in costs and/ or free up the weight to be used for more important stuff like, well, astronauts!

Of course, some people didn’t need recycling.

Sometimes I scare myself

I was watching a show on Hallmark on Tuesday and it had this case of parents taking the hospital to court because they wanted to operate upon their conjoined twins, which would have meant only one of them would survive. So I drop into K5 and what is their latest story?

Of course the episode is based on a real life incident, but that’s not the point. I might be trivializing a major issue here but these things happen way too often for them to be just a coincidence. You know, the jo-incidence with a ‘c’…