Use Moon Dust to Make Flexible Concrete
By: Lance Winslow
Our Moon has some interesting properties, which make it ideal for making concrete, it has an abundance of very fine moon dust. This would be a wonderful thing to make our moon base out of. It could be used along with nano-tube sheet manufacturing to make huge orbiting space stations which will be solid as a rock, 500 times stronger than steel per weight and able to protect our Orbiting colony and Moon colony from Solar Radiation.
One this concrete plant is fully operational, we can build a Mars Colony and take it there without worries of trying to life that heavy weight from the surface of the Earth. The power it would take to launch such a completed Space Colony building from Earth due to weight would be impossible with current human technology. However, moving a completed space station from the Moon to Mars would be a lot easier.
I propose getting a truckload of moon dust to screw around with to try to make some super building materials. Over 500 different combinations of materials were used to come up with the flexible concrete that is now being used which is 50 times stronger than steel and it can move without breaking. NASA Scientists are already planning using moon dust for all sorts of things.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-05b.html
Many scientists have floated very similar ideas and we have all the technology, so we ought to go for it. If the world gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the moon gives you moon dust make a colony out of the stuff. Why not; think about it?
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