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Making concrete on Mars by blending local dust with astronaut blood
Monday September 20, 2021. 03:29 PM , from BoingBoing
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
https://boingboing.net/2021/09/20/making-concrete-on-mars-by-blending-local-dust-with-astronaut-bloo...
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