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September 20, 2021 01:29 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/09/20/making-concrete-on-mars-by-blending-local-dust-with-astronaut-blood.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=
Making concrete on Mars by blending local dust with astronaut blood
A famous scene from the movie The Martian is when the astronaut stranded on Mars is forced to use his own poop as fertilizer to grow potatoes.
Now a research group at the University of Manchester has proposed something even more deliciously ghoulish: Future Mars astronauts could mix their own blood and urine with Martian dust to create building materials that are stronger than concrete. — Read the rest
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