Pee Pee Concrete, Black Diamond from Space, Electric Plane
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about an unusual proposal to use human tinkle to make buildings on Mars, a billion-year-old black diamond with an interstellar history and what it’s going to take for airplanes to become totally electric.
A very unusual proposal to use human waste products could allow us to build on Mars.
Researchers propose making concrete with human bodily fluids by Hunter Dulay
Mars explorers might make concrete-like materials from their own blood and urine by Amanda Kooser
Concrete on Mars Could Literally Be Made Out of Astronaut Blood, Sweat, And Tears by Michelle Starr
Blood, sweat, and tears: extraterrestrial regolith biocomposites with in vivo binders by A.D. Roberts, D.R. Whittall, R. Breitling, E.Takano, J.J. Blaker, S.Hay, and N.S. Scrutton
A Brief History of the Flush Toilet by The British Association of Urological Surgeons
What is Plasma? by University of Rochester Health Encyclopedia
A billion-year-old black diamond has an interstellar - and very rich - history.
The Enigma: Billion-year-old black diamond sold for £3.16m by BBC News
A Huge Black Diamond, Purportedly From Outer Space, Is Now Up for Sale by Corryn Wetzel
55-sided, 555-carat 'Enigma' black diamond (potentially from space) goes on sale by Harry Baker
Enigma Black Diamond Sells For $4.3 Million At Auction by Tanya Klich
How an Ad Campaign Invented the Diamond Engagement Ring by Uri Friedman
We have electric cars, but what’s it going to take for airplanes to become totally electric?
What It’ll Take to Get Electric Planes Off the Ground by Gregory Barber
The challenges and opportunities of battery-powered flight by Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Alan H. Epstein, Yet-Ming Chiang, Esther Takeuchi, Marty Bradley, John Langford & Michael Winter
Electric Planes Are Coming Sooner Than You Think by Elissa Garay
World's first electric plane start up parts ways with CEO in mysterious rift by Jennifer Korn
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| 0:41.0 | Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate. |
| 0:44.2 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow |
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| 0:53.0 | Today you'll learn about an unusual proposal to use human Tinkle to make buildings on Mars, |
| 0:59.0 | a billion-year-old black diamond with an interstellar history, and what it's going to take for airplanes to become totally electric. |
| 1:06.0 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 1:10.0 | Buckle up Nate, we're going to Mars for this story and even though it's a long ride there will be no bathroom breaks |
| 1:16.0 | Mars cool wait did you say no bathroom breaks I did because some brilliant researchers figured out a way to use human waste products as building material on the red planet. |
| 1:26.8 | So you're telling me that every time we use the toilet, we're flushing our hope of living on Mars down the drain, I have so many questions. |
| 1:34.7 | And I'm going to help answer them. |
| 1:36.2 | I know we're both excited about future Mars missions, but if we're going to have astronauts |
| 1:40.1 | living their long term, they're going to need somewhere to live, and they'll need to be protected |
| 1:44.3 | from space radiation that Earth's much thicker atmosphere protects us from. |
| 1:48.3 | I mean, NASA is working so hard to cut the weight of space shuttles by every ounce. I don't think they're going to be |
| 1:53.8 | sending up bricks and two-by-fours. Exactly. Rather than bringing building |
| 1:58.1 | materials with us, scientists at the universities of Manchester and Oslo |
| 2:01.7 | are looking at what materials we can build with |
| 2:03.8 | what's already on Mars. Scientists know the planet has a top layer of dirt, dust, |
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