Die Smithsonian-Forscherin Mary Hagedorn hat eine solche Idee, und ihre Idee ist verrückt – im besten Sinne. Nachdem sie den Kummer erlebt hatte, Biobanken aufgrund menschlicher Fehler und instabiler Anlagen an Orten wie Hawaii zu verlieren, hat sie einen ausfallsicheren Plan entwickelt: eine Biobank in der Nähe des Südpols des Mondes. Warum dort? Weil die Temperatur dort von Natur aus ungefähr der von flüssigem Stickstoff entspricht, was sie perfekt für die Lagerung von Biomaterial macht. Es ist wie die Tiefkühltruhe der Natur, nur 382.900 Kilometer entfernt.
Stellen Sie sich Folgendes vor: eine Sicherungskopie der gesamten Artenvielfalt unseres Planeten, sicher verstaut auf dem Mond, fernab der menschlichen Reichweite, bereit, uns zu helfen, wenn hier auf der Erde etwas schiefgeht. Das ist nicht bloß Science-Fiction; es ist ein visionärer Schritt, um das Leben, wie wir es kennen, zukunftssicher zu machen.
Falls Sie neugierig sind und mehr über diese umwerfende Idee erfahren möchten: Mary erklärt sie in der neuesten Folge des Space Café Podcasts im Detail.
Was meinen Sie? Könnte dies die Zukunft des Naturschutzes sein?
Ever thought about backing up Earth’s biodiversity… on the moon?
byu/therealhumanchaos inFuturology
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You want a giant corpse freezer on the moon, like Noah’s Zombie Ark? That’s rather insane. The most to try to move that much mass and then maintain it on the moon makes the idea dumber vs more affordable.
It would be cheaper to build it here on Earth, even if you had to pay to cool it, but wouldn’t preserving them in something like resin or amber make more sense and wouldn’t just having a database of their DNA be good enough… especially considering there is no remote chance in hell we can really afford such a big cost for near zero return.
Like the chance you need that is near zero and the costs are enormous no matter how you do it. It’s a very bad idea, imo.
What does backup mean? How do you restore lost coral from this?
>this mind-blowing idea.
This word used to have a meaning.
Wouldn’t radiation be a problem? Radiation levels on the moon can be up to 150 times higher than on earth. Why wouldn’t we just bury a biobank in Antarctica? McMurdo Station is already a functional research facility.
With a major disaster on Earth, we might not be in a position to retrieve it. Perhaps we would recover and then retrieve? We might not recover without the lost fauna.
Even building such a vault on the Moon is beyond us, the equipment would have to be sent and if it’s surface built, the shielding would be too heavy to transport there. It’s at least a trillion-dollar project and probably will take multiple attempts, so multiple trillions. Even then, not even feasible.
No, because it’s a stupid concept and would be impossible. Thanks for yet more nonsense though.
We should do this, but also place an extremely advanced AI up there with the goal of rebuilding humanity if we ever go extinct.
It would need some fancy ufos and drone robots to accomplish the task, but it’s probably not impossible.
And if the destroyed Earth is uninhabitable by humans, the AI should start a hybridization process with whatever species is surviving on the surface, and slowly hybridize them with humans, while doing whatever terraforming is necessary to eventually make the surface survivable for us.
But we don’t want whatever species survives to know of our plan to breed them out, so the whole process has to be kept hidden from the hybrid civilization until it’s too late for them to stop the process.
The AI would need to operate in stealth mode. Taking beings for experiments as they sleep so they don’t remember what has been done.
And if they do remember the AI will need to destroy their credibility, or possibly end their life to keep the secret. Creating a stigma around the belief in “humans” would be an important tool to control the spread of belief in such things.
It would be extremely important to keep the plan hidden from whatever primitive civilization would develop as the hybrids became more intelligent.
So a certain level of manipulation of primitive computer systems would be required to hide any clues that could lead people to the truth.
But with the right bureaucracy in place the AI should be able to classify any information about the program as top secret compartmented information, in ways that governments and even presidents wouldn’t have the authority or ability to investigate what is really going on.
But yeah. A Seedbank is a good start.