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Re: Human numbers
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- Subject: Re: Human numbers
- From: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com (Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:59:53 -0500
About all that urine...
>Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:20:30 -0700
>From: Al Globus <globus@vinci.ucsc.edu>
>To: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com
>Subject: Re: Human numbers
>
> water weighs about 9 pounds per gallon, or about four kilograms per gallon.
>7 Kilograms of urine per day works out to less than two gallons. This seems
>a little high, but not ridiculous. I suggest you try an experiment for a
>few days and see. Also, remember that these numbers were generated in
>the high-resource usage 60's. If you find better numbers, please let
>me know.
>
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> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 08:17:02 -0500
> From: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com (Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39)
>
> Hi Al,
> I'm working up a draft web page for a group thats trying to do some serious
> analysis of what kind of starships would be possible in the mid 21st
> century. As part of that we were doing food consumption numbers and I
> reffered to your web page table
> <http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/SpaceSettlement/designer.html> and started to
> use it. When some members started to review it, I realized I hadn't looked
> carfully enough at the numbers. For example over 7 kilo of urine a day
> seem rather high to me, not to mention 15-20 kilo of drinking and food
> related water intakes. Could you explain?
>
> Kelly Starks
>
>
>
> >X-Sender: S9421793@mail.student.utwente.nl
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> >Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 02:00:10 +0100
> >To: KellySt@aol.com, kgstar@most.fw.hac.com
> >From: T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)
> >Subject:
> >
> >Hi Kelly,
> >
> >I've made time to read your HTML,
> >
> >About the "Space Settlement Designer's Corner", I know the numbers there
> >aren't yours, but 15-20 kg of water as input seems very much. Also peeing
> >over 7 liters of urine per day seems rather much. Could you explain
>what I'm
> >overlooking, or am I just some one who use little water?
> >
>
>
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>
> Kelly Starks Internet: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> Magnavox Electronic Systems Company
> (Magnavox URL: http://www.fw.hac.com/external.html)
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Kelly Starks Internet: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com
Sr. Systems Engineer
Magnavox Electronic Systems Company
(Magnavox URL: http://www.fw.hac.com/external.html)
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