September 16, 2021.

Scientists at The University of Manchester have now developed a way to potentially overcome this problem, by creating a concrete-like material made of extra-terrestrial dust along with the blood, sweat, and tears of astronauts.

In their study, published in Materials Today Bio, a protein from human blood, combined with a compound from urine, sweat, or tears, could glue together simulated moon or Mars soil to produce a material stronger than ordinary concrete, perfectly suited for construction work in extra-terrestrial environments.

In an article published on September 10, 2021, in the journal Materials Today Bio, scientists demonstrated that a common protein from blood plasma – human serum albumin – could act as a binder for simulated moon or Mars dust to produce a concrete-like material.

However, the scientists found that incorporating urea – which is a biological waste product that the body produces and excretes through urine, sweat, and tears – could further increase the compressive strength by over 300%, with the best performing material having a compressive strength of almost 40 MPa, substantially stronger than ordinary concrete.

“Scientists have been trying to develop viable technologies to produce concrete-like materials on the surface of Mars, but we never stopped to think that the answer might be inside us all along.”.

Aled Roberts, from The University of Manchester, who worked on the project, said that the new technique holds considerable advantages over many other proposed construction techniques on the moon and Mars.

“Scientists have been trying to develop viable technologies to produce concrete-like materials on the surface of Mars, but we never stopped to think that the answer might be inside us all along,” he said.

The scientists calculate that over 500 kg of high-strength AstroCrete could be produced over the course of a two-year mission on the surface of Mars by a crew of six astronauts.

Reference: “Blood, sweat and tears: extraterrestrial regolith biocomposites with in vivo binders” by Aled D.

Scrutton, 10 September 2021, Materials Today Bio.

How ABSOLUTELY NOVEL: to build off-world “structures” with Human blood, sweat and tears.

Any SOUL arriving on Mars via that EGO TRIP will, in short SHRIFT, be SWEATING Blood, [actual] Sweat, AND Tears; pissing-up a Storm and Losing Hair in the BARGAIN of profit-based HEGE-MONY-IES

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