Space agency: Human urine could help make concrete on moon

AP ^ | May 8, 2020

[PROCON]

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency said Friday that human urine could one day become a useful ingredient in making concrete to build on the moon.

The agency said researchers in a recent study it sponsored found that urea, the main organic compound in urine, would make the mixture for a “lunar concrete” more malleable before it hardens into its sturdy final form.

[PROCON]

Yeah, I know, a piss-poor thread.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The amount of beer needed to make this work would seem to make this unworkable.

[RoosterRedux]

Cat urine is even better than human urine. Anyone with litter box experience knows the concrete potential of that.

[Vaquero]

Works in overheated radiators too.

[duckman]

How many cases of beer for one bag of Sakrete?

[wally_bert]

Water cooled machine guns.

[JimRed]

Hundreds of astronauts would have to be present, drinking a lot and saving pee to start even a small structure.

[Vaquero]

I have 1 cat. I’m Not a cat fancier. Twice a weeks the bag in the box comes out drawstrings pulled and into the garbage. No examination required.

[Da Coyote]

Heck, human crap makes news on earth’s media.

[Meatspace]

When the moon’s building inspector says that they did a piss pour job on the concrete, he will be right.

[Vaquero]

Yup. Browning Model 1917 being one

[angmo]

Some idiot got paid to write this.

[gunnyg]

Extremely joyful news!
But...afraid, in the end, it’ll be another big letdown!
GunnyG@Planet WTF?...WNW! (where nothing works!)
Semper TRUMP.45!
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[Moonman62]

San Francisco needs to do this type of research.

[cloudmountain]

Google:
Concrete is made from water, aggregate (rock, sand, or gravel) and Portland cement.
A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together. Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, produces concrete.

There isn't any need for urine since the materials needed to make concrete are so SIMPLE and plentiful.

Besides, NASA decided LONG ago that the moon is a waste of time for people.
And what's to spy on? No one on this planet can BURP without the eyes/ears in the sky knowing who did it, when and how loudly.

This sounds like the old line: "British science has proven that..."

[Vaquero]

Huge 3D printers can use regolith and heat to build structures on our natural satellite.

[RoosterRedux]

I have a new kitten (discovered her on my truck's engine block 2 days before last Christmas).

She turns the scoopable litter I use into mounts of concrete. If I were in that business (conrete, not litter), I believe I could turn a profit.

[martin_fierro]

“Human urine could help make concrete on moon”

“Urine a construction urea”

[HighSierra5]

I guess you’d have to chit a brick to build a wall.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

How do you get that much beer to the moon?

5.56mm