The boys at NASA have done it again. Years of higher education, advanced degrees, cutting edge technology and now… FINALLY… after years of toiling… you can drink your own pee. Top that Fear Factor.

The Environmental Control and Life Support System (or ECLSS – we love abbreves around here) transforms your bodily waste into delicious thirst quenching water.

You’re probably expecting me to make some snarky remark about how this is YET another example of eco-friendly madness gone awry, but I’m not going to. Because this is actually pretty cool (albeit gross). I mean think about it… where the hell else are astronauts going to get water in space?