Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say

Potato starch was used to create bricks from simulated Martian soil. 55 kilos of dehydrated taters resulted in about 200 bricks. Many thousands would be needed to make something the size of a house, so that’s a lot of po-tay-toes. Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a Martian brick production facility.

But that wasn’t the weird part of the report: blood and urine were also studied as binding agents for the bricks. Bleah.