Not enough population to create a true pandemic maybe ?
I didn't say it was the official reason, just the most logical one, and even then It's probably just a precaution. There aren't that many researches on mixing human and animal wastes.
What can we do with shit?
Dominic Phillips
Gabriel Walker
Jenkem
Michael Butler
I mean we don't have to use it for growing crops specifically
although everybody seems perfectly fine with using cow shit to grow their food but oh once you use human shit thats crossing the line
but why no just use it for helping to grow and regrow normal plants that we don't eat
Parker Powell
>but not achaea
be careful making hard statements about archaea
they're notoriously difficult to study because we just have no idea how to grow them in the lab. what we know about them is barely better than "we know they're out there"
same with lots of ostensibly ubiquitous bacteria. people used to think b. subtilis was the vast majority of soil microbes but then it turned out it was actually a minor player, we just couldnt culture anything else
Asher Jones
the problem with human poop vs. cow/chicken poop is that we don't exclusively eat grass and bugs. Our digestive systems also function in very different ways. Unprocessed human shit is full of a lot of crazy bacteria and diseases that will fuck you up. You don't want that on your food.
Animal manure on the other hand is just fine and dandy.
Jack Kelly
I've pooped in my compost a few times.
A few times I've noticed I have steam rising from my feces when i do it outside on the ground. Why is that sci?
Justin Wilson
Pack it into spacecraft hulls for radiation shielding on interplanetary voyages.
Henry Phillips
The poop is hotter than the air around it. The same can happen with urine as well.
Blake Ward
Yes you can. Some engineers designed reactors that run on biofuel made from cow shit to bring electricity to rural India, and is simple enough to operate that the average uneducated Indian can do it. It was in an article in a chemical engineering journal that I cited for something.
Mason Johnson
>What can we do with shit?
Faecal microbiota transplants. Culture teh bacteria from a 'healthy' persons shit and transfer that culture (in pill form or one of the -oscopies)) to the gut of someone who has a deficient gut microbiota such as where the 'good bacteria' is at low levels and C.dificile runs amok causing colitis.
>thefecaltransplantfoundation.org
Interestingly, they've also conducted studies looking at obesity and the relationship between the gut microbiota present. Again, FMT could be away of influencing a persons ability to gain/lose weight.