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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
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| 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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posted on
01/01/2022 8:33:36 PM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Makes you wonder what their plans are for us.
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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)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/01/2022 8:37:09 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
“Hey that thing is in hanging over into my driveway.”
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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.)
To: BenLurkin
Man’s only hope is Jesus not some scheme.
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posted on
01/01/2022 8:45:15 PM PST
by
xp38
To: BenLurkin
In general, I really doubt spaceflight will be a viable option should the apocalypse happen.
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posted on
01/01/2022 8:48:52 PM PST
by
Western Patriot
(Give me liberty or give me death.)
To: BenLurkin
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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/)
To: BenLurkin
If there was some global catastrophe... how would anyone get to the moon to use the stuff stored there?
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posted on
01/01/2022 8:53:10 PM PST
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
To: SaveFerris
Gives new meaning to “To the moon, Alice, to the moon!”
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posted on
01/01/2022 8:54:32 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post cliclicckbait!)
To: sten
Easy peasy!
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posted on
01/01/2022 8:58:44 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/01/2022 8:59:44 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: Larry Lucido; SaveFerris
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posted on
01/01/2022 9:00:47 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
Could be the new CryoCurrency.
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posted on
01/01/2022 9:01:22 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
To: All
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posted on
01/01/2022 9:02:57 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(WHY are there no Democrats on Mt. Rushmore?)
To: BenLurkin
Won’t work. The only “ark” for salvation is faith in Jesus Christ.
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posted on
01/01/2022 9:13:53 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: dfwgator
I remember that Bill Cosby album.
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posted on
01/01/2022 9:18:45 PM PST
by
CletusVanDamme
(Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
To: BenLurkin
Come to think of it, what happened to the 1919 influenza samples that were exhumed a few years ago?
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posted on
01/01/2022 9:21:10 PM PST
by
CletusVanDamme
(Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
To: BenLurkin
Traveling to an Earthlike exoplanet at warp speed:
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posted on
01/01/2022 11:08:25 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
To: BenLurkin
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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.)
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,
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posted on
01/02/2022 12:18:06 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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