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

[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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Makes you wonder what their plans are for us.

[dfwgator]

What’s a cubit?

[BenLurkin]

“Hey that thing is in hanging over into my driveway.”

[xp38]

Man’s only hope is Jesus not some scheme.

[Western Patriot]

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

[SaveFerris]

LOL

[sten]

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

[Larry Lucido]

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

[TigersEye]

Easy peasy!

[rfp1234]

[dfwgator]

[rfp1234]

Could be the new CryoCurrency.

[BipolarBob]

[beethovenfan]

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

[CletusVanDamme]

I remember that Bill Cosby album.

[CletusVanDamme]

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

[jonrick46]

Traveling to an Earthlike exoplanet at warp speed:

[GeorgianaCavendish]

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

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

[alexander_busek]

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,