Side view of the proposed ark design. Credit: Jekan Thanga
Posted on 03/09/2021 5:44:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
University of Arizona researcher Jekan Thanga...solar-powered ark on the moon would store cryogenically frozen seed, spore, sperm and egg samples from 6.7 million Earth species.
Scientists discovered a network of about 200 lava tubes just beneath the moon’s surface in 2013.... This network of lunar lava tubes are about 100 meters in diameter. Untouched for an estimated 3 billion to 4 billion years, they could provide shelter from solar radiation, micrometeorites and surface temperature changes.
The mission concept builds on another project Thanga and his group previously proposed, in which miniature flying and hopping robots called SphereX enter a lava tube in teams.... This information could inform the construction of the lunar base.
The team’s model for the underground ark includes a set of solar panels on the moon’s surface that would provide electricity. Two or more elevator shafts would lead down into the facility, where petri dishes would be housed in a series of cryogenic preservation modules. An additional goods elevator shaft would be used to transport construction material so that the base can be expanded inside the lava-tubes.
To be cryopreserved, the seeds must be cooled to minus 180 C (minus 292 F) and the stem cells kept at minus 196 C (minus 320 F). As a reference for just how cold this is, the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine must be stored at minus 70 C, or minus 94 F. The fact that the lava tubes are so cold, and the samples must be even colder, means there’s a risk the metal parts of the base could freeze, jam or even cold-weld together. On Earth, commercial airlines stop working when ground temperatures reach minus 45 to minus 50 C (minus 49 to minus 58 F).
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What about all the other “genders”? They’ll need 57 specimens for each species, not two.
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The Krell!
Monsters from the Id!!!
Oooooh, Anne Francis...
Would 60 gallons be sufficient?
No nuclear waste storage areas either.
That worked out badly in 1999.
Fling it all towards the sun.
They blowed up real good!
After Bruce Dern pushed the button.
Probably his best movie.
Dern was pretty good in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
“Down in the holes where the HeeChee hid...”
Set phasers to stun!
Now how such a charismatic guy gave birth to such a wooden Indian of a daughter blows my mind. I've never liked her in any movie I've seen her in.
All this to avoid one’s particular judgement and the General Judgement?
Also, what good is having an Arc if the inhabitants do not love God?
Life without God may be defined as hell_on_earth. This outlandish and extremely stupid concept might be termed “hell_on_moon”.
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