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Scientists want to send 335 million seed, sperm and egg samples to the moon to create a lunar Noah’s Ark – CBS News
It would take over six times more rockets to transport the samples than it took to build the International Space Station.
Scientists are pulling inspiration from Noah’s Ark in a new lunar proposal that they call a “global insurance policy.” They hope to send an ark to the moon, filled with 335 million sperm and egg samples, in case a catastrophe happens on Earth.
Instead of two of every animal, the solar-powered moon ark would cryogenically store frozen seed, spore, sperm and egg samples from some 6.7 million Earth species. University of Arizona researcher Jekan Thanga and a group of his students proposed the concept…
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