Frugality [669]

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 08:08 AM, Ed Minchau wrote:

> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "lucio@v..."
> wrote:
>> Since toilet paper has become a major issue in this list in recent
> times :-),
>> I'll give my humble contribution: there are alternatives to toilet
> paper.
>> Bidets, for instance. As far as I know, they are not that common
> in the
>> United States, but they are found in many, many residences here in
> Brazil,
>> and some doctors say that they substitute toilet papers with
> advantages...
>>
>> Lucio
>
> And there are other alternatives as well. For instance: a
> permanently-manned space station would have to have lots of plants
> to recycle the atmosphere and provide food. What about the inedible
> parts of plants? There is one plant, one of the fastest-growing on
> earth, whose fibres can be used to make naturally-white paper. You
> might say that it grows like a weed, and has plenty of other uses as
> well (oil for making plastics, pharmaceutical uses, etc). I don't
> want to be too... ahem..."blunt" about it...

Smoking will be out in space colonies because of the air pollution.
However, brownies and spaggetti sauce work fine (if memory serves).

>
> ed
>
>>
>> On Wednesday 09 July 2003 13:35, Bob Hardman wrote:
>> (...)
>>> Also, -Toilet paper is not heavy, but quite bulky, and not
> reusable,
>>> recyclable, yes, ..... -eventually.]
>>> -and you will need Lots of it. -[-Can't you just see employee
> training
>>> sessions on the proper techniques
>>> for frugal use.. ;-]
>>>
>>> Bob H.
>> (...)
>
> Canada.
>

Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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