Building a lunar base out of Moon dust

Welcome to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Here, engineers are dreaming up new technologies that will help build settlements on the Moon or Mars via NASA’s experimental “Swamp Works” lab. With everyone from NASA to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos looking to send people to the Moon and beyond, the Swamp Works engineers are hard at work figuring out how to help future “space pioneers” actually harvest their own materials from other planets. Verge Science took a spin through the lab and saw some unique prototypes in action.
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[@VergeScience]

What is the first thing you would build on the Moon or Mars?

[@user-zm5wr2zw2t]

A wall

[@ksurovov]

It’s definitely will be a WALL

[@HahtaanDaetori]

A space elevator

[@blvck.8197]

A house on the edge of a crater overlooking the vast flatness of earth

[@flyonthewalls]

A condo for mother in law :X

[@staratzis5680]

They just need a cobblestone generator..

[@william9837.]

Lama Gaming lava would get too cold, they need a chest dupe glitch

[@toohawt9752]

Nahhhh lets just bring a villager to trade stuff, we have enough emeralds

[@wewuzvikangz4829]

They just need to switch to creative mode

[@Joedoeswhat]

lmao

[@loop5720]

Guys...Guys! This is simple, we don't have a technology that can make our life to Creative Mode yet. But we can use command blocks by commands! Just need to make a LAN and set it to have commands.

[@CrazyDave318]

“Someday, humans will travel to the moon and mars.” I’m sorry, wat?

[@NitePHX]

I agree. First thing I heard in the video was "Someday humans will travel to the moon" and I'm like you, What? Wouldn't the opening line have been better said "Someday humans will return to the moon and travel to mars."?

[@snow6889]

Humans never travelled to the moon. It's all fake.

[@TuhinBagh]

Conspirarcy confrmed :D

[@HallOfMimi]

NitePHX Yeah, xD. So they are saying it’s fake? Well idk

[@The_Jovian]

I think they meant colonize

[@brianmalave]

Came here after watching Kurgesagt's video, about moon's base. Nice to see KZbin recommendations are working out.

[@semicognitive]

The two videos are made for each other

[@brianmalave]

same.

[@contio9386]

Same!

[@seanerzat]

YES SAME loool

[@TommoCarroll]

Same! And hey, you know what a nice addition to that series would be? Genetically engineered astronauts...oh wow looks like there's a video just like that on my channel (I am so damn sorry about the shameless self-promotion, but you genuinely might be interested in the video after those two!) 😅

[@IanChristopher]

I hope US would fund NASA more

[@quintincastro7430]

nasa just needs to spend there money more efficiently

[@clemj7928]

true, if they had any money to speak of

[@Unb0rnify]

NASA get's funded alot more than other space agencies already. It's congress that keeps switching it up on them and slowing down the progress.

[@fugitive011]

Id prefer my taxes not go into funding moon-dust trash buildings.... this is so silly.

[@iplaygames8090]

yeah give it to military destroy earth yay

[@ShiftsThaGizzim]

"REGOLITH" would make a great Death Metal band name.

[@Juanoodi]

Please no

[@PuzzlesExplained]

Awesome followup to the Kurgesagt video, two of the best science channels doing one interesting topic. Gold.

[@MDZPNMD]

You have to love the irony xD

[@The_Jovian]

@@MDZPNMD what irony

[@zackatwood2867]

um... hear about the spacex announcement...?

[@tanners9077]

Add me on Snapchat: Tanner.smith412

[@zackatwood2867]

Tanner Smith Just do it already

[@drgabe2908]

*CAVE JOHNSON STARTS COUGHING*

[@pokka4369]

Exactly!

[@vitorklock2118]

You're a genius

[@WilsonOlivierGazer]

Yesssss we need P3!

[@teancrumpets5685]

#MAKETHELEMONSCOMBUSTIBLE

[@chopun3862]

I'm so happy rn 😂

[@scienceface8152]

Bet all the people who 'bought' acres of the moon from dubious websites are getting a bit edgy.

[@adamdanilowicz4252]

@Nathan A Yup

[@RemKingston]

HODL

[@TommoCarroll]

Whoever came up with that business model is an utter genius. 😂

[@TommoCarroll]

Adam Danilowicz Incredible 😂

[@LiveYourLifeWithJoy]

@@TommoCarroll utter thief

[@rubenleal4821]

This is why we "go to the moon". The innovations created to survive in space helps us develop improvements to live on earth. Imagine using this tech to recycle garbage. Then what was printed, when no longer useful, can be re-recycled to print out something else.

[@immazoorun4404]

Pressure is the key difference

[@samveg5412]

The concrete made from that might be strong enough to hold a structure on moon but not on earth cause difference in gravity.

[@michael-dm2bv]

sorry to burst your bubble but the trash problem is already resolved. in ct. they burn trash cleanly, so well that they are starting to "mine" old landfills for incinerator fuel. no 200 billion dollar trip to the moon necessary. all nasa employees, imo, need to be tested for crack use. in one hundred years we have done way to much damage to the earth and we still are 100 years away from getting people to live on the moon. by then this planet will be toast. sorry. you take care of the gift you are given before destroying it for the sake of saying we are an advanced race. we are an advanced raxe when we don't let humans die of dehydration and starvation. morals! a word nasa and all its fan base could stand to learn.

[@jeffvader811]

​@@michael-dm2bv Sorry to burst your bubble but your argument has several gaping holes in it. For one thing, you probably didn't know that the majority of satellites that NASA operates are for Earth observation, ever wonder where all this data about melting icecaps and holes in the ozone layer came from? That's right, NASA. Ever wonder how developing countries monitor and prepare for droughts and famines? That's right, with public data provided by NASA, (Read into the SMAP and Suomi NPP satellites, they're doing amazing stuff up there). Without a space programme we wouldn't know the extent f the damage being done to Earth and would likely not realise till it was too late. Secondly, you're assuming that Lunar exploration wouldn't be beneficial for Earth. When in actual fact the Moon could be key in combatting climate change at it's root causes, specifically industry and energy. For example there is likely a large amount of Helium-3 (an isotope of Helium not found on Earth) just sitting on the moons surface. What's the big deal about that? Well, Helium-3 would make an amazing fuel for fusion reactors, which (with some development of course) could provide clean energy for the world's growing energy needs. In a similar case, us humans are going to run out of resources on Earth at some point (like rare-earth metals and such), and we will *have to* go elsewhere to find them. The moon would be great for this, in fact, moving all our industry to the moon would have all sorts of benefits! If we can not only mine resources, but manufacture products in space (0G manufacturing opens the door to new materials that cannot be made on Earth) then not only to we get to remove the cause of pollution form the Earth, but we also get new technologies that can keep Earth the way it is! But isn't this all just hand-wavy promises for a far-off century? Well, no actually. It is much closer than most people think. In particular China has expressed a huge interest in building Lunar bases and have already landed several rovers on the surface to prepare for such missions. There is also a massive commercial interest in the Moon from companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX, (both of which have received government contracts, so we know that they're serious) in going to the moon sustainably with cheaper reusable rockets. If you are going to try and make a point then it helps to know all the facts, I hope this helped.

[@shingshongshamalama]

Imagine being able to donate recyclable plastic and polymer wastes to spaceflight industries for use in off-planet construction projects.

[@jacobsnacob4013]

This is amazing

[@jokuvaan5175]

@therealnightwriter No scientist knows how to manipulate spacetime, but sure Kenedy had it all figured out. Trump has also said a lot of stuff. A lot of which isn't true. Even if the president says something, it doesn't mean it's always true. Also about that speach... source please

[@xs1xs1]

yea amazing hollywood.

[@Matthew-zx8cs]

"Someday humans will travel to the moon-" Again, you forgot to say again.

[@vin._2363]

Patrick :"We have technology...."

[@Kamek2182]

Springsblade GT "I just want you to make it smaller...."

[@JohnJohansen2]

One of the challenges to the equipment is the 300+ degree temperature shift, from night to day. That's not of the shelf electronics.

[@MusicGameFinatic999]

@@JohnJohansen2 yeah they will definitely need to think of something to account for that.

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

Hire a foundry company to design the electrics!

[@crazymarkmc]

Or just cover it in tinfoil and duct tape to keep it nice and warm

[@TommoCarroll]

Swampworks may have one of the most badass logos I've seen!

[@wdd3141]

Isn't there also a research base called Skunkworks?

[@rogerwhite9484]

If they can speed up the printing to 100lbs per hr then not only vvill it make building bases on the moon feasable but it'll make manufacturing back here on Earth a lot cheaper. Hope this developes like they're projecting .

[@rohansonkusare7025]

For any given printing rate, building on Luna will always be easier than on Earth because of reduced gravity and no wind. Also the construction material used on earth is already manufactured in-situ (and thus very economical) and is much stronger than the regolith-polymer concrete, so it's unlikely that construction costs will be reduced on Earth.

[@stradedigital3725]

Reporting on space programs with the attitude of a fashion show reporter... Thanks verge... Your staff is is an unlimited source of entertainment.

[@jonnyquest1384]

One way feminazi missle.

[@ILLuZzionZz4937]

This is really tremendous work, and I really appreciate all of the work N.A.S.A. ,and Space X are doing. Hopefully we can learn more about the universe especially the Andromeda galaxy.

[@LANSl0t]

"This job always requires me to get into weird body suits"

[@jonnyquest1384]

The next-generation of Moon feminazi.

[@ivx8345]

Airhead lady interviewer.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@@jonnyquest1384 How is she a feminazi? what political statement did she say make.

[@danielclausmeyer]

I can not imagine the feeling this guy and his colleague have to have. I hope they feel amazing! This is awesome and has such an incredible value for the mission of being and interplanetary species! 👏

[@alexsobrino]

Good video, love it. I would love a closer look at the materials, though.

[@leefless2004]

Awesome

[@orbitsnoogslaghouse1188]

Excellent video and great ingenuity

[@Lilmiket1000]

I haven't really been a NASA fan as much as space x. but these are definitely the things I'm proud to see NASA develop. and it seems NASA excels at developing space and earth tech more than actually going places. It's good to see Bridenstine somewhat acknowledging that and taking advantage of it.

[@Cultleader1984]

Oil:exists on moon Americans:👁️👄👁️ did someone say *OIL*

[@wewuzvikangz4829]

The moon: exists America: its free real estate

[@carteradams43]

America: directs all funding to NASA Army: well, oof

[@divyamagrawal9071]

If oil exists on moon then automatically terrorists are also on the moon🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@the_nord_guy2617]

Moon needs democracy

[@keishkitsukisamei3593]

memey boii If there is a living things like plants anime etc, Then oil is possible

[@allenjones1947]

That moment when you realize aliens do exist. *And its us.*

[@temiajuwon8893]

Yeah... Illegal aliens

[@scientistsbaffled5730]

Your manhood is alien and you.

[@marcusmvpgoat1236]

The moment when when no one laughs at your joke

[@The_Jovian]

I mean, I guess we'd be aliens on the moon or Mars. We're not aliens on earth cause it's where we're from

[@allenjones1947]

@@The_Jovian yeah that's what I meant lol

[@philrabe910]

The first thing I would build? More printers! The new colonies will have a new kind of factory, ones that produce anything, but at a much slower pace than production factories designed to make a single thing. We will need a factory that makes most of what is needed. So, after the 100 beds, tables, chairs, and households are printed, it will become a bespoke factory. Colonists would send a file of whatever 3D item was needed, and wait for the notification to come down and get it. Having enough machines to meet colonist demand would be critical.

[@alextell7019]

print printers make mad bank repeat

[@antonnym214]

correction on one term at 5:30. A podium (or dais) is a flat, raised platform. What you're calling a podium (The vertical piece you stand behind) is really a lectern.

[@ne1cup]

turning moon soil into glass sounds very interesting, what with focused sunlight ?, glass beads and fibers would be very useful , good idea

[@Leo_Mauro]

Awesome video! Congrats Loren.

[@TommoCarroll]

Loren is absolutely killing it! Love seeing her space-based videos both here and on the main Verge channel! Do you follow her on Twitter?

[@Leo_Mauro]

Yes, i do follow her.

[@ivx8345]

@@TommoCarroll I respectfully disagree. I think she could better interview Temptation Island/Jersey shore contestants or something like that.

[@kisaragi-hiu]

It's weird hearing the Vox “worrisome politics” music for a technology showcase video on Verge Science. Voxmedia, you people might want to think about avoiding BGM you've already made associated with another series :) Apart from that, this is really cool!

[@userou-ig1ze]

nice catch

[@temiajuwon8893]

Heh

[@ocircles738]

well it does kinda sound like mass effect map screen

[@CraftsmanShengCanweget10KSubs]

we don't mind

[@DanteS-119]

weeb

[@antonnym214]

at 5:30, that's not a podium; it's a lecturn. The podium would be the elevated platform, or stage-like structure. A Dias is similar to a podum, but larger, mostly for multiple people, like for an award ceremony. Hope this helps.

[@jonnyquest1384]

Lol!

[@noisycarlos]

Love it! Both what they're doing and the video.

[@borissaid4542]

Damn wish there was a video of the inside of skunk works

[@MajorAddiction]

Enemy Of the State

[@laranaries4225]

WTF?!? Scientists figured out decades ago that above ground complexes on the moon were not practical! The first piece of equipment you would send would be a tunnel boring machine! This regolith printing machine would be handy for fabricating doors etc. Excavation is stronger, faster, cheaper, safer, and can form larger structures with MUCH less effort!

[@rogercoulombe3613]

you can't just dig a tunnel through regolith and call it a day. you need materials to support the tunnel with. doors would require much greater precision and would have to be shipped up from Earth. personally, I wonder if a dumber, brute force method of utilizing this material might be more effective than 3D printing.

[@laranaries4225]

@@rogercoulombe3613 the whole moon isn't composed entirely of just regolith! You tunnel into the rock and permafrost, then seal the walls with a spray membrane.also, the moon has far less gravity, so less support is needed. Doors don't need great precision if they are constructed with the right method. If they are built like the gates on a mitre lock, air pressure will maintain a seal.

[@rogercoulombe3613]

relying on drilling into solid rock would make the colony design far to dependent on local geology. we need construction methods that allow us to build structures were we want them rather than only in locations that we can drill into.

[@laranaries4225]

@@rogercoulombe3613 even here on earth we are dependent on suitable locations. You can't easily build on marshland or sand for example. Besides that, the moon is not a big ball of dust! Rock is FAR more common than you may think! If you notice in the video, they even mention the need to prospect for suitable regolith!

[@laranaries4225]

@@rogercoulombe3613 good to have an intelligent discussion with you! (Most KZbin debates end up degenerating into petty name calling *sigh*) I'm an old coot who has been interested in this stuff for over 30 years😉. It was generally agreed decades ago that above ground dome structures would be death traps! Slow and difficult to construct, way too many failure points and joins to maintain seals on, exposed to hazards such as meteor strikes, require huge amounts of materials to construct. Teams of NASA scientists concluded that the simplest, strongest, safest and easiest way was to go underground. Under ground it's surprising solid, and large structures can be dug out very quickly with a minimum of materials and energy, and due to the low gravity, amazingly strong. Simply spraying the walls with a sealant to ensure no leak points (a small container covers a very large area!!) Building this structure was the easy part...powering it, growing food, and supplying water was the main problems.

[@arcoftruths6326]

It's already up and running. I am new to this but last week I bought a telescope and needed to look for some interesting sites to look at on the moon for beginners. Cut a long story short I stumbled upon a glitch on a lunar map site which enabled much greater magnification and greater focus. After stumbling around I saw something that caught my eye. 4 hours later I had found the moon base, the mine, space port, construction sites, vehicles, equipment, habitats, equipment stored and stuff I have no clue about. These are not ruins and are in use.

[@trailkeeper]

A main construction room may need to be built first and pressurized so as to build other rooms, tunnels, etc. Im guessing moon concrete with fiberglass/epoxy walls for the airlock, and-ir, build it underground.

[@johncole4882]

I remember reading that moon dust can cause an allergic reaction and make you really sick

[@temiajuwon8893]

No, but the grains are incredibly jagged and sharp so... don't breath it in.

[@wdd3141]

@@temiajuwon8893 Right. Lunar soil has the consistency of ground glass, since there's no water to wear it down and smooth it. Also remember that the solar wind ionizes the soil -- astronauts remarked that it smells like gunpowder.

[@dauletamirkhanov162]

That's definitely a soundtrack from Mass Effect!

[@tandemick]

I was totally thinking the same thing. So happy someone else said it too haha.

[@anubhavjangid5555]

Hope I remain alive to see all this stuff. Thanks for showing want going to happen in future.

[@ThomasRonnberg]

It's starting to feel like "someday we'll live on Mars or moon" like the paradise promise from the movie The Island. Simply a distant encouraging positive vision of the future while everything disintegrates

[@redsquirrel3893]

How much plastic dose it need vs regolith/mars or moon dust?

[@scientistsbaffled5730]

Enough,weren't you paying attention?

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

Huge bales of plastic could be shipped there too. Plastic is light so youll get your monies worth from the launch!

[@soumyaneelmanna3097]

We have been saying that we will live on Moon since 1900s. When will that be a possibility? Also only people with good health conditions can go to space

[@leefless2004]

We can. But we need money

[@jacobkudrowich]

100 years isn't that long of a time for a concept to come into implementation. And so what ?

[@ChitranshuVashishth]

AkATigerAlly But "alot" is not "a lot"

[@redsquirrel3893]

We can do it now its just really expensive.

[@jeffvader811]

Things like moon bases don't just pop out of the ground if you wait long enough. We need lots of clever people with lots of funding to make this a reality. NASA is lacking in the second.

[@SoundDrout]

Wow this is really cool, I can't wait till we can live on the Moon. I can look outside of my window and take a selfie of me holding the Earth (:

[@commercialcommunication9298]

It is nice that they let kids come in and do interviews at NASA... it is a great way to reach other kids ...and help them learn about "mushing stuff" together...and making science!

[@TheGnome-Ad]

We've been to the moon already, wtf do you me "some day"?

[@HahtaanDaetori]

Great video!!

[@TommoCarroll]

Fantastic as always! Always look forward to Verge Science videos! Have you seen their other stuff?

[@paulmoffat9306]

You will need some sort of heavy equipment to move the regolith, such as a 'track-stear' powered by a fuel cell, as that is the most practical power generation source.

[@spookidrew4284]

This is awesome to watch!

[@amerlad]

''we're going to have to live off the land'' umm... have you seen the moon?

[@thedeadlinger6992]

You misunderstood her, but I'm not going to explain it.

[@drexxler138]

Ya not very optimistic.

[@mikearmani2]

Why make geopolymer concrete from local dust when you can quarry 20 ton blocks with a copper chisel 500 miles away?

[@michaelangeles1617]

Rockets have weigh limit... remember they also need to bring (ex: 1yr supply) food supply and materials and that weighs alot

[@sauceboss1846]

You got be joking

[@damianp7313]

Lol is this a reference to ancient megalithic constructions,?

[@RahulJaiswal-ck4xo]

One of the best shows on KZbin. This show shows the limits that are constantly being pushed by Humans.

[@antonnym214]

if you have a machine that can scoop out a rectangular area and melt the dirt it collects into a glassy material that can be laid right back into that area, then you have an insulating building foundation.

[@just-a-silly-goofy-guy]

If we faked the moon landing, how do we have the moon dust?

[@teenbodybuilder3829]

kremit the frog it wouldnt be so hard lets suppose the moon landing is fake "moon dust" would just be sand the only way to prove that it is moon dust would be to show it under the microscope it should have diffrent shapes of particles than our sand

[@Riskaka]

i' m not someone who believes the theory that the moonlanding is faked or anything. I believe the moon landing is 100% correct but if they would've faked moon landing the moon dust might've just been something like some sort of sand or something idk.

[@MyNegativeCreep]

We're on the mars too without stepping out. You can take small portions of dust, stones etc and analyse them and send the data back to earth.

[@iamank]

they mentioned its a stimulant not actual moon sand..........

[@a.l.p1442]

As a space life enthusiast the truth is that this soil is actually a simulant made by humans to make a copy of what the lunar surface actually looks like on earth , and as a matter of fact that much sand from couldn’t be transported to earth that easily as just a rover costs upto a million usd this would have lead to bankruptcy of the company instead rovers are sent they collect sand they have built in scientific instruments leading to some info on what particles or elements the sand is made up of and then scientist here on earth clone it and form a simulant With basically the same properties to do further research...

[@drpeanuthead4886]

“Someday humans will travel to the moon and mars” i swear humans already landed on the moon

[@ethan20559]

dw its so it attracts the trolls who can add it to their repertoire of "factual evidence" the moon landings never happened.

[@macbuff81]

very cool. Science and creativity coming together :)

[@zombl337og]

This stuff is so cool! Cant wait till were on mars!

[@TheGhostLegend001]

“Someday, humans will travel to the moon and mars” Every Apollo Mission: “Excuse me, wtf?”

[@droveyydunkeyy3653]

He means colonise

[@yanlopez674]

I would definitely build a lunar or martian *SANDCASTLE* probably

[@Z0MGH4X]

Lol same

[@thebooboo3269]

Yes my empire can be complete

[@theant4268]

So what you're saying is that we're going to bring our polymers from Earth? That seems kinda redundant

[@jakelopez3181]

Tom The Turtle exactly what I thought

[@anubhavlive]

Even her acknowledgements have hand gestures. They're quite noticeable.

[@TheGodEmperorOfMankind_]

This chick doesn't seem to be the right person for an interview like this one

[@KubiqFeet]

I agree, she seemed really out of place there.

[@6londin]

Amo Rise she really doesn't think we went to the moon?

[@mesteme]

She sounds like an airhed sorority girl, and can't even pronounce the word astronaut.

[@jonnyquest1384]

A feminazi will rule the Moon. I just had a great idea, one way missle.

[@tehdanny682]

@Amo Rise I know she said at 00:05 that "Some day humans will travel to the Moon and Mars." but that was most likely badly worded and not meant to be understood as "Humans have not yet been on the Moon."

[@Yathuprem]

Normal Hydrogen and oxygen combine and give water? Anybody know how cryogenic one can be used for fuel? Why is that ? Pls anybody

[@kevinmbrooks]

Yathu prem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-propellant_rocket?wprov=sfti1

[@massimookissed1023]

You get ice, melt it, use electricity to split it into separate hydrogen & oxygen using electrolysis, and store the two gasses in separate tanks. You now have rocket fuel :)

[@rotinoma]

Normal (in another word, gaseous) hydrogen and oxygen can be used as fuel, but for orbital rockets you need to have them as liquid, which means they are cryogenic.

[@rubenleal4821]

Frozen h2o goes from solid to gas faster than solid to liquid, in a dry environment.

[@massimookissed1023]

@@rubenleal4821, but then it's still H2O, you need it in liquid form to electrolyse it. No problem with a bit of pressure.

[@chandrashekharyadav5744]

Thankyou... 😊 🙏

[@jayviescas7703]

Read a 1994 book titled Sidewalks on the Moon by architect Nader Khalili. He was tasked by NASA to come up with ways to make structures from basically local (lunar) materials only hence the meaning of the title.

[@justdamon25]

Anyone here wanna make extraterrestrial babies when we move to Luna or Mars? 🤣

[@drexxler138]

Not the first thing that came to my mind, but sure.

[@theintrovertedowl]

*_CLEFAIRY IS EVOLVING!_* *_~ accept or not?~_*

[@sebastians7346]

I dont get it :(

[@temiajuwon8893]

Nice

[@thec-m]

Sebastian S - Clefairy evolves into Clefable when holding a Moon Stone. Although, it also is needed for a few other Pokémon evolutions too.

[@AshleyTennyson]

Amen

[@jackpullen3820]

We should do as much as possible with robotics till sending man for the mere facts that it is cheaper and trips are mostly one way until we have an orbiting station around the moon and mars. This also allows for a track record of success and failure to develop all systems before risking life.

[@frankvicioso4809]

Another better idea is making air tight tunnels as described in the book OUR WARS Lunar colonization using moon ice harvesting is possible using earth rail gun cannons and heavy metal spheres and forming space trains as described in the space age strategic book called OUR WARS

[@BTDFreak]

Why don't we start taking more moon dust and use this material as a way to reduce waste here on earth? It might be a double benefit of reducing trash and having more material for construction projects

[@midnight8341]

Because then we'd have to mine the moon and bring metric megatons of that stuff safely down to earth every year? That's neither economical nor ecological.

[@BTDFreak]

very true, atlas not yet. With Elon musk on the brink of figuring out reusable rockets and determining the cost of mining / transportation vs the cost of trying fixing the earth after we reach the point of no return on global warming and waste.I agree with you but with the right technological advancements that seem fairly possible it could happen

[@Z0MGH4X]

Because we'd eventually mine the moon out of existence

[@BTDFreak]

Isn't that what were slowly doing to our own planet anyway ?

[@Z0MGH4X]

@@BTDFreak Well most of the matter that is mined stays on Earth

[@hameddesign70]

What if that shovel hit a rock ? , stupid idea ...

[@ebobram]

lol, "moon and mayrs" mayrs is my favorite planet

[@globalcitizen995]

Seems to me that they would need a means of melting the moon dust either inside a mould or pouring the molten moon dust into one. Probably need seeral mould designs in order to join 'blocks on the sides and at the top and at the ends and then for the roof ? - but how to ensure no gaps for air to escape between the joins of the various 'blocks'

[@ijuldzulfadli903]

Waiting for some FE people commenting that those moon dust is the proof that moon landing was faked and human never been there. 😂😂😂

[@massimookissed1023]

Well obviously moon dust is grated Parmesan.

[@ijuldzulfadli903]

Massimo O'Kissed and the whole moon is cheese.

[@TommoCarroll]

I for one love to put grated moon dust on my Spaghetti!

[@roar40s]

Sheep

[@neutronstar6739]

@@roar40s spaceship

[@janboezeroem3695]

wow the pioneers of the Gold Rush? look how that turned out for the environment?

[@3gunslingers]

Luckily the moon has no "environment".

[@DownTopable]

Yea cause we will totally destroy the moons ecosystems....

[@LANSl0t]

Oh no we'll destroy the moons ecosystems

[@Lardzor]

Use computer controlled Fresnel lenses or parabolic mirrors to focus the Suns light onto a kiln to melt the dust into molten rock. Fill a tungsten form with dust, and melt the regolith with sunlight into building blocks.

[@MarkPierro]

This is amazing, how do they do it? Just like the Luna atmosphere, hardly any content at all.

[@atiialaii3766]

Soneday humans will travel to the MOON and mars???????? 1969????????

[@frederickthorne2496]

context, bruh - good luck with your question mark addiction

[@uros.u.novakovic]

Notification squad I guess. Also downvoted this Luke person who spams the "first" and "like this" comments.

[@Starbat88]

This is exciting! Let's go already!

[@jaytb5815]

Cool! I'm can send T-Series to NASA so they can print building material.

[@moeenshaikh271]

Excellent go a head you will be blessed

[@lithostheory]

So what percentage is mars/ moon soil versus added ingedients?

[@tiberiusblack1411]

Very interesting topics. Well done. Greets from Netherlands,

[@larrytischler8769]

My uncle cataloged and cut many of the moon rocks at the Johnson Manned Space Craft Center near Houston. He showed me the moon dust. It is composed of tiny spherical particles even smaller than beach sand. Beach sand is notoriously poor for making concrete. Concrete used "sharp" sand which is angular and locks together and makes concrete strong.

[@baloog8]

There are technologies that use spherical sand for building material. They said polymers for one example. Also, gravity is less on the moon.

[@larrytischler8769]

@@baloog8 do you suggest they haul enough polymer up to the moon for a continuous phase and use the moon dust for a filler?

[@shiv.mistry]

Informative

[@feynstein1004]

As a civil engineer, I'm really interested in the "lunar concrete". Here on earth, concrete is a mixture of cement, aggregate (gravel and sand) and water. What would lunar concrete consist of? Manufacturing cement on the moon doesn't seem viable to me. Perhaps we could use just lime? But does the moon even have lime? And what about water? It's a very precious resource on the moon. Should we really be using it as construction material when it might be far more essential for the people living there? I guess the regolith there could be a substitute for sand but what about gravel? I doubt the moon has giant reserves of the material. So it'd have to be manufactured there as well.

[@LukasTheBowgartArchive]

Oh my goodness! This is awesome :)

[@sammyspaniel6054]

I see a huge business for moon and mars exploration. Decorative glass products made from the soils. There are a lot of rich folks out there who would pay big bucks for a shiny glass moon made from lunar sand.

[@Vulcano7965]

Thought you would cover ESAs Moon village. Still not dissapointed.

[@andrymashka1757]

Hey, NASA, both Mars and Moon have craters and rocks. Digging, especially preasure digging is far more economical than building 3d printers to make pooping structures. My vision: Send rower diggers with cable robes to gather stones, clear out sites, pick what rock to pick for armouring walls. Those same diggers could be used as a high preasure compressor to to dig, cut and organize walls. After tunnels are bored you can use them as perfect air ports and start to send shuttles back and forth to establish temp colonies to do research of things around.

[@i-make-robots]

Polymers are the same problem as concrete: shipping. The regolith is mostly iron - put a magnifying glass on the robot and melt the regolith in place with sunlight. 3D print on the spot.

[@davidklein1453]

Great video Loren and co!

[@abhiya4845]

I always hype about Space. But, we still need to first dig more details about our own planet. Most likely we should do more research about ocean. I am still 18. I hope one day I will visit Mars,Moon and also deep inside Mariana Trech ...

[@jonraborn3396]

Industrial photography: lunar catolog& exploration: tourism& construction: inventory& sales inc.

[@johncgibson4720]

Dig the helium-3 for fusion reactor back home.

[@ashiksaleem360]

Nice idea

[@DarrenMclarnon]

Ah youtube recommendation is doing well today... Thanks verge and youtube

[@BRZZ-xw4hd]

incredible..peace out

[@thomasstuart6861]

I would think a geological map of the surface and below could point out minerals that could be utilized.

[@freshwater3158]

Excellent