Thurkeau

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Still looking for a snake that's small enough. My normal goto, copper wire, is a challenge to use in small tubes as well.

 

I'm looking for some help researching how to clean long tubes, such as maybe 1/4 inch pickup tubes for a water pump that may be 20 feet long. I've been able to find hydration bladder cleaning kits that allow for cleaning the first 2 or 3 feet of these tubes, but beyond some sort of high pressure/high flow system with high caustic cleaning solutions, I haven't found a good way to swab out a long tube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You're not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've noticed that seems to be happening, especially with companies like Amazon, whom I work for, aside from the money they can make from it. That said, we also have an example of that in the form of old Soviet Russia. They had actually eliminated most holidays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That is also something that I have wondered about, but that probably isn't a thing because of salt buildup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's actually part of my question. The bowels also dump toxins overboard as well, but will they be enough to do the job?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

True, though as is, we still need to take in water due to a shortfall in what we do take in. That said, I'm also wondering if my proposal would also result in other waste products being recirculated and building up in the system, causing their own complications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I can totally see that, though what if the body was able to adapt to the new configuration and keep the gut bacteria in its place, but the urine still flowed into the bowels for reprocessing? What else would the large intestines pick up aside from water and maybe salt?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Then you'd be right back where you started for my purposes, still losing moisture unnecessarily.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I think that's called a bicycle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A cloaca still has facilities for urine to be dumped overboard, doesn't it? My proposal is to recirculate it before dumping it overboard dry.

 

I have wondered many times how a human would fare if the kidneys dumped urine into the start of the large intestines somewhere about the appendix instead of into a bladder to be sprayed out. I'm assuming water would be reabsorbed and slower to process out, primarily through sweat and evaporation from the lungs, and maybe diarrhea, though it may be that other waste products, such as salts or ureas may be absorbed into the large intestines instead of being ejected, though I have no idea if it would, or if it would be ejected as intended. Do we have any biologists here that could give insight on if combining both waste paths into one would be advisable?