{"id":18850,"date":"2013-02-01T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18850"},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:50:09","slug":"want-a-house-on-the-moon-lets-just-3d-print-that-out-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/want-a-house-on-the-moon-lets-just-3d-print-that-out-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a house on the moon? Let&#8217;s just 3D print that out for you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-21293258\" target=\"_blank\">house on the moon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Architects Fosters and Partners have revealed designs for a building on the Moon that could be constructed from material already on its surface.<\/p>\n<p>An inflatable structure would be transported from Earth, then covered with a shell built by 3D printers.<\/p>\n<p>The printers, operated by robots, would use soil from the Moon, known as regolith, to build the layered cover.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed site for the building is the southern pole of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to house four people and could be extended, the firm said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 a team of researchers from Washington State University found that artificial regolith containing silicon, aluminium, calcium, iron and magnesium oxide could be used by 3D printers to create solid objects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted a house on the moon: Architects Fosters and Partners have revealed designs for a building on the Moon that could be constructed from material already on its surface. An inflatable structure would be transported from Earth, then covered with a shell built by 3D printers. The printers, operated by robots, would use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,15],"tags":[679,369,70,36],"class_list":["post-18850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-technology","tag-3dprinting","tag-interesting","tag-moon","tag-robots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4U2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18851,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions\/18851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}