Then what about beneficial animals such as milk cows, dairy goats, sheep, chickens, various fish, then you get into what the fish eat. Establishing the ark would involve sending the 6.7 million samples to the moon in multiple payloads, then storing them in a vault beneath the surface, where they would be safe. I do think as soon as we have routine travel between earth and moon, and earth and Mars, storage should take place. University of Arizona researcher Jekan Thanga and a group of his students proposed the concept in a paper presented during the IEEE Aerospace Conference this week. Can honeybee eggs be frozen and brought back to life? Should beehives be stored inside large greenhouses with a diversity of plant life and just maintained for future needs? Should organic soil be stored somehow. Some plants have a symbiotic relationship with bees and other organisms.
I think enough should be stored to replant everything humans need, so that is a lot of seeds. Storing seeds is a good idea on earth, the moon, or Mars. Or, unless we do too much geothermal power that could cause a problem either cooling the core or causing volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. That would be the only remaining problem of nuclear war. There is a similar project on Earth the Svalbard Seedbank in Norway, called the doomsday vault which holds hundreds of thousands of seed samples. We could build missiles to stop or destroy a large asteroid, or redirect one. How would something like that be restored ab initio from scratch? The concept is similar to that of the Doomsday seed vault in Svalbard, Norway, except it would ensure. For instance, the singing done by birds is supposed to be something taught to one another, and is not something innate or hereditary. Engineers want to build an underground lunar ark, filled with millions of seed, spore, sperm and egg samples from Earth’s species, hidden in a network of tubes on the moon to provide a genetic. By sending an ark with the the sperm and ova samples of 6.7 million species, and then storing the samples in a secure vault beneath the moon’s surface, scientists believe they could save mankind and other species from extinction. Is an underground location, inside a lava tube or whatever, the best location to pick on the Moon? Could a location inside a permanently shadowed crater also be suitable?Įven if you had the requisite genetic material and biotechnology to biologically restore entire species on Earth following a disaster, I'd read that some animal behavioral traits would likely have to be re-learned.
Given that the Moon is mere days away from Earth, how does it compare as an alternative backup site for terrestrial life and human civilization relative to other places like Mars, or something placed in orbit around the Earth or another body? something done not to investigate the Moon itself per se, but rather to make possible remote disaster recovery for Earth) At the recent IEEE Aerospace conference, reearchers from the University of Arizona have proposed the need for a lunar repository vault to preserve the Earth's biodiversity, etc in the event of disaster:Ĭould this become yet another worthwhile reason to go to the Moon? (ie.