the british brick society

[Pickman's model]

there's a very interesting article about bricks on mars in their latest newsletter

http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/
http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BBS_127_2014_Jul_.pdf

 

[maomao]

there's a very interesting article about bricks on mars in their latest newsletter

http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/
http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BBS_127_2014_Jul_.pdf

I can't believe that I followed that link but you're right.

John Forth and Salah Zoorab of Leeds University
have developed a method of making bricks by combining recovered aggregates such as furnace ash or
incinerated sewage with vegetable oil, and with no water required. If humans (and animals?) do, in the
future, inhabit Mars, sewage will obviously be available for use in brickmaking, suggesting a familiar,
if indelicate, expression which The Chambers Dictionary, 11th edition, 2008, defines as ‘to be very
anxious or frightened’ .

 

[tony heath]

Shitting bricks

 

[DaveCinzano]

there's a very interesting article about bricks on mars in their latest newsletter

http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/
http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BBS_127_2014_Jul_.pdf

That's the hoddest thing I've read today.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's the hoddest thing I've read today.

no need to lay it on thick

 

[DaveCinzano]

no need to lay it on thick

I am mortarly offended at the very suggestion.

 

[Pickman's model]

I am mortarly offended at the very suggestion.

you're bricking it

 

[Libertad]

there's a very interesting article about bricks on mars in their latest newsletter

http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/
http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BBS_127_2014_Jul_.pdf

Thanks for pointing that up.

 

[maomao]

The article makes bricklaying on Mars sound simple but I can't help feel there's mortar it than that.

 

[tony heath]

If the Chinese and British have a joint mission to Mars in 2040 they could build a Great Wall of Mars that would be clearly visible from Earth, this would silence any conspiracy theorists once and for all. Britain could have the western side of Mars and China could have the east.

 

[JimW]

Seems a bit of a stretch(er)

 

[JimW]

If the Chinese and British have a joint mission to Mars in 2040 they could build a Great Wall of Mars that would be clearly visible from Earth, this would silence any conspiracy theorists once and for all. Britain could have the western side of Mars and China could have the east.

Maybe get the Belgian secret service involved too, Flemish Bond would be an asset.
/desperate

 

[DaveCinzano]

Seems a bit of a stretch(er)

 

[maomao]

If the Chinese and British have a joint mission to Mars in 2040 they could build a Great Wall of Mars that would be clearly visible from Earth, this would silence any conspiracy theorists once and for all. Britain could have the western side of Mars and China could have the east.

I thought the 'joint' in the first sentence was a pun and was expecting several more. Bit disappointed tbh.

 

[tony heath]

Bit disappointed tbh.

sorry

 

[Libertad]

Seems a bit of a stretch(er)

Bit hard to get your header round really.

 

[DaveCinzano]

sorry

Should have said it like you cement it.

 

[tony heath]

I'm mortarfied, reaally

 

[Libertad]

Should have said it like you cement it.

Ouch.

 

[tony heath]

Ouch.

it feels like I've been hit on the back of the head

 

[Cid]

Horses for courses.

 

[Cid]

In aggregate this thread has been pretty informative though.

 

[alan_]

I thought there was already a brick thread (admittedly only terrestrial)