Lunar stone cutting

we could do the cutting at night,use a slower cutting speed,or perhaps use
laser cutting tools!I'm not familiar with the chemistry of lunarcrete,but it
sounds like a good mortar, from my understanding even concretes are aqueous
or at least need some other fluid media? Incan stone-work with precision
cutting ,Frank Lloyedean fitting ;integral form-function design we could
even build pyramids on Mars or Earth !? Couldn't we? feel free to contact
me at prestonsmith@...

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> Keeping the cutting surface cool will be more challenging on Luna than it
> is on Earth. On Earth, water is often sprayed on the cutting surface
> during the cutting process. On Luna, only radiative cooling will be
> possible in vacuo, which is a much less efficient heat-transfer mechanism.
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> I'm not well-versed in these issues, but I suspect this might be one
reason
> to think about pursuing lunarcrete as a building material rather than hard
> rock.
>
> Ron Menich
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> Does anyone know where I can find information on the hardness of various
> lunar
> rock types?
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> Stone cutting disks can be made from aluminium oxide, which is abundant
> in
> lunar highland material. Given that lunar stone is literally everywhere on
> the
> surface of the moon, it would stand to reason that it would make an ideal
> building material. All that we would really need in order to fashion stone
> blocks, is a stone cutting machine and a sintering machine capable of
> producing
> Al2O3 cutting disks. Lunar habitats could be fashioned almost entirely
from