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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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Aluminium is present in the moons crust, but some big nuclear reactors are going to be needed.
First for aluminium production, then for the brick making.
The competing teams building the lunar straw house and the lunar stick house are still searching for suitable materials.
is there in the composition and the structure of the rock/dust on the moon, is it all the same? i would imagine this is a key point if you are going to make bricks out of it, imagine having a fool proof plan to make bricks out of sandstone when you moved somewhere and only finding granite
If you're looking to build some sort of permanent colony on the Moon, you're not going to want the people who live there to have to stay in their spacesuits all the time. Therefore, they need some sort of airtight living quarters. This brick seems like a neat idea for equipment storage or something like that, but probably wouldn't be too useful for living areas if it couldn't be made airtight.
Apple, too, has been experimentally creating bricks for years.
It could still be used for structural purposes, just add an airtight layer to the interior after the rest of the building is done.
Yes, the moon bugs are very bad in the sping and don't even get me started on Monsoon season!
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.
I've been in the moon rock vault at NASA in Houston. Along with rocks, they have a sample of "moon concrete" that someone (on Earth) made out of real moon rocks many years ago, presumably also for future moon colony building.
Between concrete and bricks, apparently our future moon colonies are going to look like Soviet-era eastern Europe.
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He was eaten by the wolf while researching how to make long enough tubes.