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    3 hours ago

    That’s how water recycling works on the ISS, and it’s not specific to those two astronauts. Pretty similar to how water recycling works down on Earth too.

    Also, the Crew-9 capsule launched with two empty seats, so they aren’t even stranded anymore.

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        Good point. Starliner was always the plan in the event of an emergency evacuation, and there was also “lie on the floor of the Crew-8 Dragon” as a backup for the brief period between empty the Starliner return and the launch of Crew-9.

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        4 hours ago

        And trilobite pee. And Shark pee. And woolly mammoth pee. And each other’s pee.

        It’s pee all the way down.