Science is building a better tomato moon rock. ninakix: In Pisa, Italy, mad genius Enrico Dini is building sandcastles on the moon. His giant 3-D printer is the first of its kind with the potential to print whole buildings, and it makes them out of solid rock, cutting down a thousand-year-long process into a few minutes. It uses sand, but someday it’ll use moon dust. … As part of the European Space Agency’s Aurora program, he’s talking with La Scuola Normale Superiore, Alta Space, and Norman Foster to modify D-Shape to build with moon dust. Voila: instant moonbase. (via Fast Company)
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Science is building a better tomato moon rock.

ninakix:

In Pisa, Italy, mad genius Enrico Dini is building sandcastles on the moon. His giant 3-D printer is the first of its kind with the potential to print whole buildings, and it makes them out of solid rock, cutting down a thousand-year-long process into a few minutes. It uses sand, but someday it’ll use moon dust. … As part of the European Space Agency’s Aurora program, he’s talking with La Scuola Normale Superiore, Alta Space, and Norman Foster to modify D-Shape to build with moon dust. Voila: instant moonbase. (via Fast Company)

Source: Fast Company

helloszabi: kiyo: moderation: Lunar event happens ‘once in a blue moon’… only once in every 20 years, the blue moon appears on New Year’s Eve, as it will this year.(via homertribune)
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kiyo:

moderation:

Lunar event happens ‘once in a blue moon’…

only once in every 20 years, the blue moon appears on New Year’s Eve, as it will this year.(via homertribune)

Source: moderation