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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.
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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