Syfy – Industrialization comes to the Moon?
China is apparently planning to turn the streets of the Moon into brick streets and brick buildings. In “Salt of the Earth” the Arlo (spaceship headed to the asteroid belt) uses its 3-D printers to build just about anything it needs, from clothes to weapons. I suppose it is not far-fetched to build bricks out of Moon dirt and a good 3-D printer.
Fortunately, I’m not claustrophobic so I still prefer turning ancient lava tubes on the Moon to home, safe from regular meteor hits. I’m not so sure a brick, even a 3-D brick would hold up well to that kind of activity.
Fortunately, labor costs will be low, as the operation and construction will be done exclusively by robots.
This does create an interesting scenario that was played out by Disney with Wall-E What if mankind suddenly destroys itself. Would the brick making and building process continue? Over millions of years imagine the surprise when alien explorers reach our system and find a burned out planet without an atmosphere on the third planet with a moon totally covered in bricks.