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Va. Tech Students Create Experimental Bricks For the Moon

Posted by timothy on from the we'll-recycle-our-cans-there dept.

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."

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  1. Apple by Icarus1919 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple, too, has been experimentally creating bricks for years.

  2. Re:Brick house? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    They forgot about the 4th little pig, which built his house out of carbon nanotubes.

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  3. moon concrete by syrinx · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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