So the European Space Agency has had a bit of a revelation, and they’ve struck upon the idea to build a “remote access toolkit to rebuild the human race” on the moon. In other words, said toolkit is what evil geniuses refer to as a “doomsday ark”.

Apparently, the ark will contain the essentials of human civilization.

A basic version of the ark would contain hard discs holding information such as DNA sequences and instructions for metal smelting or planting crops. It would be buried in a vault just under the lunar surface and transmitters would send the data to heavily protected receivers on earth. if no receivers survived, the ark would continue transmitting the information until new ones could be built…

The databank would initially be run by robots and linked to earth by radio transmissions. Scientists hope to put a manned station on the moon before the end of the century.

The databank would need to be buried under rock to protect it from the extreme temperatures, radiation and vacuum on the moon.

So let’s see that again: “extreme temperatures, radiation, and vacuum on the moon.”

Something gives me the feeling I’d rather die than live in a place like that.

Seth had a look at this just now, and he’s totally not buying it.

Just for a start, Camps Bay hasn’t made it on to the list of “essentials for human civilization”.

And by the looks of things, assistant bloggers won’t be very high in demand for repopulating to human race – so I don’t exactly like the idea very much.

If we go down, we go down together in a malaise of green house gas, famine, overpopulation, genocide and pandemics, damnit!

Or, perhaps the European Space Agency could splurge their millions of developing space-located food gardens and the like, so we won’t have to leave Camps Bay.

[Source : The Daily Galaxy]

[Thanks, Henk!]

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