{"id":57164,"date":"2017-05-02T05:02:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/our-future-space-colonies-could-be-built-using-super-strong-martian-bricks"},"modified":"2017-05-02T05:02:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:02:55","slug":"our-future-space-colonies-could-be-built-using-super-strong-martian-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/our-future-space-colonies-could-be-built-using-super-strong-martian-bricks","title":{"rendered":"Our Future Space Colonies Could Be Built Using Super-Strong Martian Bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-future-space-colonies-could-be-built-using-super-strong-martian-bricks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created bricks harder than concrete by compressing <i>simulated<\/i> Martian soil. Hypothetically, this means we could significantly bring down the cost of constructing shelters when we finally reach Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The world is intent on sending humans to Mars, but the feasibility of Martian travel is dependent on cost. That\u2019s why staying within budget is potentially the biggest challenge facing NASA\u2019s recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/its-official-humans-are-going-to-mars-nasa-has-unveiled-their-mission\/\">five-year plan<\/a> detailing how humans will get to Mars. It\u2019s also the reason SpaceX is pushing to make <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-says-his-reusable-rockets-will-make-space-access-100-times-cheaper\/\">reusable rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/our-future-space-colonies-could-be-built-using-super-strong-martian-bricks\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/our-future-space-colonies-could-be-buil...an-bricks\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created bricks harder than concrete by compressing simulated Martian soil. Hypothetically, this means we could significantly bring down the cost of constructing shelters when we finally reach Mars. The world is intent on sending humans to Mars, but the feasibility of Martian travel is dependent on cost. That\u2019s why staying within budget is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}