There's something wrong with how our brains work
Consider that somebody who couldn't kill somebody from a distance of 1m can pick off dots using a machine gun mounted on a helicopter and see it more as a game. It's indicative that the brain is able to deal with images without processing what it rationally knows about reality and allowing the empathetic part of the brain to register this event.
Now consider all the other problems that this aspect of our brain activity creates.
Now hear this joke about what it is like to be rational:
"A lot of people imagine astronauts would be quite sick at the thought of drinking their own recycled urine. But if you don't mind being launched in to space, you probably won't mind drinking water obtained from your urine"
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Re: the last paragraph.
Most of the water we drink on Earth probably contains at least a few molecules of recycled urine, considering how many life forms have walked, crawled or swam around this planet, drinking and excreting daily, since the substance formed six billion years ago or so.
I know...
The point of the paragraph was that the astronaut was trying to poke fun at people who think astronauts would be sick at the thought of drinking water taken from their own recycled urine...by coming up with something that is more rational for them to fear!
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