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By Colin Lecher Posted 01.02.2013 at 4:30 pm 7 Comments

ISS Space Part Chris Hadfield

International Space Station astronaut Chris Hadfield just tweeted this photo of... some sort of tank or something on board the International Space Station.

Hmm. Some very important space technology, no doubt. But what could it be? Well, we got the answer pretty soon after.

Aha! It's a tank that turns urine and sweat back into drinkable water. Important indeed. In fact, we remember when the astronauts first toasted to this equipment with tall glasses of their own recycled urine. As we reported, the whole setup costs a whopping $250 million, but can you really put a price on such a futuristic toilet?

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Ruri
01/02/13 at 5:18 pm

It's part of the ISS toilet.

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PsyOps
01/02/13 at 6:28 pm

It's a Turkey fryer left over from Thanksgiving.

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GMarsack
01/03/13 at 1:02 am

Moonshiner's still. The cops won't ever think to check the ISS!

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Robot
01/03/13 at 8:03 am

This is where the last remaining Twinkies are being stored for humanity, safely stored in space on the ISS, in hopes a new replication process and factory might be develop and humanity will be saved!

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Frostiken
01/03/13 at 9:46 am

They're using it to cook SpaceMeth.

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Robot
01/03/13 at 10:24 am

Perhaps the ISS is studying in this container the effects of no gravity and exposer to the extremes of cosmic space on Christmas Fruit Cake. Seems those things never expire!

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UncleJesie
01/03/13 at 2:18 pm

autoclave?