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Space agency: Human urine could help make concrete on moon
AP ^ | May 8, 2020

Posted on 05/09/2020 8:42:33 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: concrete; moon; urine
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To: Vaquero

Never did that, but when I was about 8, we had to use a bottle of Sprite in the radiator.


21 posted on 05/09/2020 9:15:31 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: cloudmountain

NASA is still working on some moon stuff. My son, an astronautical engineer interviewed for a job piloting a satellite that would be surveying the back of the moon as a landing site for an outpost.

He had two interviews the same day and took the other position.


22 posted on 05/09/2020 9:18:22 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: PROCON

I;ll contribute all I can

Just hand me a 6 pack ……...


23 posted on 05/09/2020 9:20:36 AM PDT by njslim
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To: PROCON

Adobe huts on the moon? I think I’ll pass. At least the Indians used water and it didn’t stink.


24 posted on 05/09/2020 9:24:32 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: PROCON

Just tried. Missed by that much...


25 posted on 05/09/2020 9:26:32 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: PROCON

would the same thing apply to Uranus?


26 posted on 05/09/2020 9:39:13 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: PROCON

This building smells strange.


27 posted on 05/09/2020 9:46:25 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: cyclotic
NASA is still working on some moon stuff. My son, an astronautical engineer interviewed for a job piloting a satellite that would be surveying the back of the moon as a landing site for an outpost.
He had two interviews the same day and took the other position.

An outpost? I guess the astronomers want it.
There IS gold out in them thar planets...but it would take HUNDREDS of years just to GET there. With the pitiful fuels we have ... we'll just have to LOOK for now.
I seriously doubt it there is time travel or a "di-lithium" crystal that will take us anywhere very soon.
I may be wrong.

28 posted on 05/09/2020 9:48:05 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: PROCON; Gamecock; SaveFerris
Don't they need to recycle some of that? Different pipes, I guess.


29 posted on 05/09/2020 9:54:35 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: PROCON

How about sh!t castles too? Will that work as well?


30 posted on 05/09/2020 9:58:40 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: cloudmountain

Star trek was based on “wave of the hand” technology. In others words, it would just be there when we needed it. Reality is not that simple and manned space travel, exploration, and especially colonization are far more difficult than the hand wavers in the 1950s thought it woul be.


31 posted on 05/09/2020 10:00:34 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: PROCON

At last an opening act for the concrete vibrator!

32 posted on 05/09/2020 10:20:53 AM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: PROCON

33 posted on 05/09/2020 10:25:28 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: PROCON

At my age I could build the Great Pyramid!


34 posted on 05/09/2020 10:35:42 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: cloudmountain

There is ‘gold‘ on the moon. Helium 3 (He-3) is a light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. It is abundant in the moon’s soil after being dumped there by solar winds. Two fully-loaded Space Shuttle cargo bay’s worth - about 40 tonnes worth - could power the United States for a year at the current rate of energy consumption - of fusion reactors become a real thing.


35 posted on 05/09/2020 11:55:23 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ("Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither.")
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To: PROCON

I can’t pee that far.


36 posted on 05/09/2020 1:13:02 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: attiladhun2
Star trek was based on “wave of the hand” technology. In others words, it would just be there when we needed it. Reality is not that simple and manned space travel, exploration, and especially colonization are far more difficult than the hand wavers in the 1950s thought it woul be.

The problem is twofold:
1. FUEL. Always has been and there it no magic bullet. There is no "dilithium crystal" outside the scripts of Star Trek.
2. DISTANCE. Everything is just so darn far away. And if I remember some of my astronomy...things are getting FARTHER apart.

The nearest place to get to would take a ship some 300 years to arrive to...or something equally outlandish.

37 posted on 05/09/2020 1:16:56 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: PROCON

Well, the Romans did use urine and excrement for a number of things. And during Medieval times, they used animal dung to make wattle and daub to construct walls and buildings.


38 posted on 05/09/2020 2:38:49 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: PROCON

Send me up there with a thousand kegs of beer. I’ll have the moon paved in no time at all!


39 posted on 05/09/2020 2:42:33 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: RoosterRedux

Yeah. I don’t use scoopable litter. It’s comes out like wet liter. I buy the cheapest stuff Walmart sells. I dump it Monday morning and Thursday evening the days before garbage pickup. I buy real thick Jonny Cat plastic bag liners from Amazon. No fuss no muss. Just dump it all. My cat was a feral kitten too.


40 posted on 05/10/2020 4:34:27 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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