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Va. Tech Students Create Experimental Bricks For the Moon
goran72 writes "Students from the college of engineering at Virginia Tech in the US have made highly durable bricks composed of a lunar rock-like material, which one day might be used to build dwellings in colonies on the moon."
The creation of moon bricks = The first step in the collapse of the lunar housing market.
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The competing teams building the lunar straw house and the lunar stick house are still searching for suitable materials.
Apple, too, has been experimentally creating bricks for years.
They forgot about the 4th little pig, which built his house out of carbon nanotubes.
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Bricks could never provide the same level of radiation shielding and meteorite protection as tens of meters of lunar regolith. Tunneling is the best option.
And what are you doing with the material you get from tunneling?
Bricks!
Or maybe really ugly figurines to sell to the tourists.
And the aluminium can be made into the big mirror needed for the aluminium smelting furnace.
Made of lunar bricks, of course.
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(Other then you can build a structure 3x as massive on the moon without worrying about the bricks breaking)
Fixed that for you.
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Tolerable, possibly even enjoyable?
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"...our future moon colonies are going to look like Soviet-era eastern Europe."
Only not quite as gray.
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