I'm a total nerd, and I'm willing to accept it, but I found the following information mind-blowingly cool:

The picture above is of an astronaut on the moon covered in moon dust. Now most of you may know that NASA has announced plans to build a permanent moon base by 2024, or something like that. Anyway, everyone is concerned over what to do about this moon dust that is both incredibly fine and extremely abrasive, due to the fact that it's nothing more than ground up asteroids. It can potentially get in your lungs and cause problems, it scratches up lenses, etc, etc. Here's the cool part: in efforts to find a solution, some genius put a sample of moon dust into a microwave and discovered that it melts and subsequently hardens into a glassy blob - faster, in fact, than it took to heat up a cupfull of water.
Solution: send up microwave emitters with the team so that they can pave roads and even make bricks to build buildings with. Isn't that cool?
Of course, one may argue that it's the beginning of the end for the lunar ecosystem, but really, what can you do?

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