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Letter: Psssshhh

Published 25 March 2000

From Nigel Danton

I’ve read of using sandbags filled with lunar soil to build shelters before,
but Ebrahim Khalili also proposes to reinforce them with barbed wire
(4 March, p 9).

To pierce the bags, the barbed wire will need to be sharp. These shelters
will be built by astronauts. Barbed wire. Spacesuits. Vacuum. Hmm.

Borehamwood, Hertfordshire

Issue no. 2231 published 25 March 2000

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