Re: Human numbers

[kgstar@most.fw.hac.com (Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39)]

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
>
>
>
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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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