Va. Tech Students Create Experimental Bricks For the Moon 137
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."
Here we go again (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Brick house? (Score:5, Funny)
Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Brick house? (Score:5, Funny)
They forgot about the 4th little pig, which built his house out of carbon nanotubes.
Re:forget bricks (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Energy required (Score:3, Funny)
And the aluminium can be made into the big mirror needed for the aluminium smelting furnace.
Made of lunar bricks, of course.
Re:Energy required (Score:4, Funny)
Re:FTFA... (Score:3, Funny)
(Other then you can build a structure 3x as massive on the moon without worrying about the bricks breaking)
Fixed that for you.
Re:Energy required (Score:1, Funny)
Not cool.
Re:forget bricks (Score:3, Funny)
3. Profit!
Re:no dome? (Score:4, Funny)
Tolerable, possibly even enjoyable?
Re:moon concrete (Score:4, Funny)
"...our future moon colonies are going to look like Soviet-era eastern Europe."
Only not quite as gray.