Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Concrete Moon Boobs

It costs a hell of a lot of money to get materials into orbit and even more to get them to the moon. Luckily some bright people have dedicated some research to this issue in an attempt to hasten my exodus into space (iow- to get this freak off the planet).
Astronauts could mix DIY concrete for cheap moon base

To test the properties of lunar concrete, Toutanji and Richard Grugel, a geological engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, also in Huntsville, used a simulated lunar soil.

They added 35 grams of purified sulphur to every 100 grams of dust and cast the mix into a number of small cubes about 5cm on a side. Those were exposed to 50 cycles of severe temperature changes, each time frozen down to -27C and then warmed back to room temperature.

Even after that treatment the concrete could withstand compressive pressures of 17 megapascals (roughly 170 times atmospheric pressure). If the material is reinforced with silica, which can also be derived from moon dust, this can be raised to around 20 megapascals.
So we could build entire colonies of concrete domes, thus making portions of the Lunar landscape look like patches of boobs. Brilliant!

This should also please the pagans, astrologers, and other dabblers in the esoteric. It would be right in line with the 'Moon as Feminine' philosophy.

I know I would be ecstatic to live under a giant tit. Who wouldn't? And it's not like there is no precedent for such behavior. These blokes seem perfectly happy with their working conditions.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would most certainly need a bigger boob. Those things hardly look big enough to lay down in. Or is that just a random picture of other house boobs not moon house boob prototypes?

rbbergstrom said...

Do they float?

Can I get one that's tattooed?

If so, I'll take out a bailout-inducing loan to buy one.