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MAN'S LAST HOPE Inside the real life ‘Noah’s Ark’ designed to save mankind after the apocalypse with a ‘back up’ vault on the MOON
US Sun ^ | Mark Hodge

Posted on 01/01/2022 8:33:36 PM PST by BenLurkin

Dubbed the "global insurance policy", the project is planning on sending seeds, sperm and ovaries to the Moon.

A solar-powered ark would then cryogenically store the frozen samples from some 6.7 million species underground.

Taking inspiration from Noah's Ark, experts fear that Earth may not be safe enough to ensure the survival of the human race - or any species.

Prof Jekan Thanga, of University of Arizona, who proposed the idea in a paper earlier this year, says the human race must safeguard to world against global catastrophes.

There is a similar project on Earth - the Svalbard Seedbank in Norway, dubbed the "doomsday vault" - which holds hundreds of thousands of seed samples.

But Thanga believes storing samples on our own planet is too risky.

The near-seven million samples would be sent to the moon in multiple payloads and then stored below the surface in vaults, CBS news reports.

The ark would be stored within a network of lava tubes - discovered in 2013 - formed after molten streams flowed beneath the lunar surface billions of years ago.

Experts believe these tubes could provide protection from solar radiation as well as meteors and other hazards on the surface.

And the moon's harsh environment "makes it a great place to store samples that need to stay very cold and undisturbed for hundreds of years at a time," the project team said.


(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: moon; silentrunning; svalbardseedbank
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1 posted on 01/01/2022 8:33:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Makes you wonder what their plans are for us.


2 posted on 01/01/2022 8:36:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: BenLurkin

What’s a cubit?


3 posted on 01/01/2022 8:37:09 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
“Hey that thing is in hanging over into my driveway.”
4 posted on 01/01/2022 8:38:28 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Man’s only hope is Jesus not some scheme.


5 posted on 01/01/2022 8:45:15 PM PST by xp38
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To: BenLurkin

In general, I really doubt spaceflight will be a viable option should the apocalypse happen.


6 posted on 01/01/2022 8:48:52 PM PST by Western Patriot (Give me liberty or give me death.)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL


7 posted on 01/01/2022 8:51:13 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: BenLurkin

If there was some global catastrophe... how would anyone get to the moon to use the stuff stored there?


8 posted on 01/01/2022 8:53:10 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: SaveFerris

Gives new meaning to “To the moon, Alice, to the moon!”


9 posted on 01/01/2022 8:54:32 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post cliclicckbait!)
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To: sten
Easy peasy!


10 posted on 01/01/2022 8:58:44 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: BenLurkin

11 posted on 01/01/2022 8:59:44 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: Larry Lucido; SaveFerris

12 posted on 01/01/2022 9:00:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Could be the new CryoCurrency.


13 posted on 01/01/2022 9:01:22 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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14 posted on 01/01/2022 9:02:57 PM PST by BipolarBob (WHY are there no Democrats on Mt. Rushmore?)
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To: BenLurkin

Won’t work. The only “ark” for salvation is faith in Jesus Christ.


15 posted on 01/01/2022 9:13:53 PM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: dfwgator

I remember that Bill Cosby album.


16 posted on 01/01/2022 9:18:45 PM PST by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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To: BenLurkin

Come to think of it, what happened to the 1919 influenza samples that were exhumed a few years ago?


17 posted on 01/01/2022 9:21:10 PM PST by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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To: BenLurkin
Traveling to an Earthlike exoplanet at warp speed:


18 posted on 01/01/2022 11:08:25 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: BenLurkin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1hFKKmVcjg

As good of time as any to post this. A classic.


19 posted on 01/02/2022 12:07:46 AM PST by GeorgianaCavendish (Man shall not serve two masters, for he will love one and hate the other.)
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To: BenLurkin
Dubbed the "global insurance policy", the project is planning on sending seeds, sperm and ovaries to the Moon.

I can understand donating sperm (I do it all the time, when the nice young lady with the little plastic cups comes to my door every spring during their annual drive) - but ovaries?!

Do they perhaps instead mean ova?

Regards,

20 posted on 01/02/2022 12:18:06 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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