After 7 years, scientists finally know what is in your pee - Polidicks

[QUOTE]It took seven years and 20 researchers, but a team at the University of Alberta have finally, using all available state-of-the-art equipment, figured out the chemical composition of human urine. This also means there's a good chance that somebody has replied to the question "so what do you do?" with "I've been looking at urine for the past seven years." According to David Wishart, the senior scientist on the project, medical textbooks list anywhere from 50-100 chemical compounds in urine, and standard urine tests (like when you pee into a cup to test for drug use) only check for six or seven compounds. But this study used nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography to find over 3,000 different chemical compounds. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/whats-your-pee[/url] I wonder if you get paid a lot for dealing with so much piss, for so long.

[QUOTE]According to David Wishart, the senior scientist on the project[/QUOTE] I wonder if this man is happy with his life

I wounder if any of them are going to get pissed off from any of the results. /shitpun But really, this has to be a really shit job.

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;42116617] But really, this has to be a really shit job.[/QUOTE] Somebodies got to take the piss.

I wonder if they'll get an Ig Nobel prize from this, considering that they spent 7 years looking at human piss to see what's in it.

[QUOTE=Butthurter;42116636]poor choice of words[/QUOTE] Piss poor.

[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;42116640]Were these scientists from your town by any chance OP?[/QUOTE] His friend was the one who provided the samples.

Jesus, 3000 compounds, that's so perplexing. I would have sworn the only thing I can recognize by taste is urea

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;42116714]Jesus, 3000 compounds, that's so perplexing. I would have sworn the only thing I can recognize [B]by taste[/B] is urea[/QUOTE] Errr...

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;42116731]Errr...[/QUOTE] If you give oral to either sex you're liable to end up eventually tasting a little piss.

why is my pee cloudy

Drink more water.

I bet something really useful comes of this.

A lot of them are drug metabolites, though, so plain ol' human pee won't have the full complement of >3000 compounds. Also, as a chemistry major, this gives me a major hardon.

man after reading this article I somehow ended up at [url]http://www.fruitnut.net/HTML/201_Article_Urine.htm[/url] da fuck [quote]"If you believe in me, you will never thirst... Rivers of living water shall flow from your bellies.." - Jesus (in John 7:38)[/quote] lmao [editline]wat[/editline] brb drinking my own medicine

I hope that this leads to urine-based tests of any kind to be much more accurate, specially drug ones. Maybe faster and for more drugs, too.

THANK YOU, NOW I CAN DRINK MY PISS [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaS-6Im6Ync[/media]

Someone should let Bear Grylls know about this.

And this is what my tax money quite literally goes to.

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;42117515]And this is what my tax money quite literally goes to.[/QUOTE] Can learn a lot of interesting things in how to the body processes what it deems waste products and use that to better improve medicine and refine urine screening for drug testing or checking for bad thingies like cancerous cells or whatever.

[QUOTE=breakyourfac;42116594][url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/whats-your-pee[/url] I wonder if you get paid a lot for dealing with so much piss, for so long.[/QUOTE] It's a grand thing to imagine these men posed proudly for a photo in front of massive glass-and-steel vats filled to bursting with urine, the evening sun flowing warmly through the yellow haze but the processes were probably no different to any other chemical analysis in terms of gross-ness. I don't imagine they'd often have been exposed to enough urine to even smell it really [editline]8th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Headhumpy;42117030] Also, as a chemistry major, this gives me a major hardon.[/QUOTE] I imagine your own contributions to the project are particularly painful at present

I always thought the only thing in urine was flavor.

It has been scientifically proven* that urine causes people with urine on them to take mini-crits *: it has not

I thought OP's thread title would be: "After 7 years, scientists finally know what is in [B]MY[/B] pee"

-snip wrong thread-

edit sorry before face's snip.

[QUOTE=bdd458;42120005]why all the .gifs?[/QUOTE] I had lmao threads in another tab, I haven't had my coffee yet. [editline]8th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=BFG9000;42119871]I thought OP's thread title would be: "After 7 years, scientists finally know what is in [B]MY[/B] pee"[/QUOTE] Haha that would be pretty funny because I wouldn't be lying necessarily, but I just got done from being banned for doing shit like that.

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;42116617]I wounder if any of them are going to get pissed off from any of the results. /shitpun But really, this has to be a really shit job.[/QUOTE] If the pay is good and you have a roof over your head, who cares. I would rather look at piss all day than be unemployed.

These guys must have had a lot of faith in the cause of science :v:

[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;42120265]If the pay is good and you have a roof over your head, who cares. I would rather look at piss all day than be unemployed.[/QUOTE] My dad makes 6 figures examining penises, buttholes and vaginas all day. Not to mention he has to deal with urine and the occasional feces. No, he's not a prostitute, he's a Urologist.