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the Danish brickmaker and European Space Agency, that Lego piece was crafted from meteorite dust. While you wont see astronauts going into spa stanley cup ce to try and build the first space edition of Barad-D没r, the agency claims its a small test to see how well Moondust might work for building mankinds first real lunar structures. You cant buy it, and the Space Bricks only come in one color鈥?space gray 鈥攂ut the stardust building block does look striking up close with its odd wavy lines and dusty appearance you would never see on a modern, pristine Lego piece. According to Lego and the ESA, the meteorite dust was ground off an object first discovered i stanley canada n 2000 in northwestern Africa. Each brick is not pure meteorite. The 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite dust was mixed with a small amount of thermoplastic polyester to let the engineers form it like a Lego piece. It was also mixed with some regolith simulant, which in this case is supposed to mimic the kind of dust found on the moon. The actual shape was made with a 3D printer. So why build a brick out of multi-billion-year-old space dust According to the ESA, it is to simulate how well this material does when making actual structures. No, future astronauts and space engineers probably wont start building the first habitable domes on the Moon with Lego bricks, but scientists have tried testing the possibilities of space-based material. Theres, of course, lunarcrete which is a mix stanley cups ture of the Moondust, or regolith, and concrete. In t Zruq One of the Toughest Jobs on Earth: Studying Melting Ice
Theyll make their decision, as scientists do, by considering all available evidence, from the tunnels weve bored deep underground to extract precious fuels, to the nukes weve exploded that have left traces lingering in the teeth of every person under 60, to the climactic changes that have become impossible to ignore even as stanley cup leaders of the free world do exactly that. But however the scientific debate over the so-called Anthropoce stanley becher ne shakes out, one thing is clear: For those of us living 93 million miles from the Sun in the early 21st century, the age of humans has already arrived. Were launching Earther because its time to confront that reality head-on and explore what it means for our future. Because from what weve seen so far, the age of humans means that everything is changing. All weather events, for instance, now happen in the context of climate change鈥攐f an atmosphere warming at rates not seen in tens of thousands of years as we pour carbon into the air at rates not seen in the last 66 million. All species extinctions鈥攁nd theyre piling up a thousand times faster than scientists expect from natural processes alone鈥攐ccur against a backdrop of ecological destruction tha starbucks stanley cup t will continue as we continue to devour resources faster than our planet can produce them. Perhaps most importantly, all movements for environmental justice have become movements for human justice, for the poor and marginalized communities who suffer most from pollution and habitat destruction and the i
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