Preparing for a doomsday scenario that could destroy the Earth, scientists from the University of Arizona have proposed building an underground ark hidden in a network of tubes on the Moon that could provide a genetic backup for the planet, CNN reported.
“Earth is naturally a volatile environment,” said researcher Jekan Thanga, a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering in the University of Arizona College of Engineering. “As humans, we had a close call about 75,000 years ago with the Toba supervolcanic eruption, which caused a 1,000-year cooling period and, according to some, aligns with an estimated drop in human diversity. Because human civilization has such a large footprint, if it were to collapse, that could have a negative cascading effect on the rest of the planet.”
Dubbing their project a “modern global insurance policy,” the scientists’ plan is to fill the ark with millions of seed, spore, and reproductive cells from Earth’s species that would be cryogenically preserved.
They said the vault could protect the genetic materials in case of “total annihilation of Earth,” which would be triggered by a major drop in biodiversity.
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If Earth undergoes a catastrophic loss of life, we’ll simply fly to the moon and pick up some fresh DNA to clone.
Who dreams up this stuff?
Oh Tokyo! Who has the bosom.
Vulture mad sea ahead! Anything you want plus more. Family money gag out.
not for publication, a question to moderator – what’s up with these gibberish comments? Why do you approve them?
Whatever plan you have to save the spaceship to get you to the moon, use that plan to save the vault.
funny news but sad.
Wouldn’t you prefer to get on a spaceship a thousand human beings, as opposed to ten trained astronauts and a couple of elephants?
Van we send the circling Jen Psaki up to the moon?