Project to save planet life

Alliance to Rescue Civilization (ARC) Project comes from concerns about the risk of a global disaster. People will build a conservation base on the moon to sustain life on earth.

Global disasters can happen at any time (Photo: photobucket)

When the dust clouds from the global nuclear disaster of World War 3 began to subside, human civilization was completely destroyed, and the earth would become a cold planet . An episode in science fiction movies? No, this is a hypothesis and an engine of a high-level meeting last June between five Scandinavian prime ministers in an icy island in the Norwegian territory.

The main goal of this unusual meeting is to pass a $ 4.8 million project to overcome the apocalypse to store essential species as well as life and human knowledge in the event of a a global disaster .

Conservation bank

The ARC idea was considered by the advocates as a preventive solution for the apocalypse, whereby the DNA copies of life on earth and the background of human knowledge will be stored in special warehouses reserved for each species In fact, this is the next step in the plan to preserve newly established rare species in the UK. This genetic bank called Frozen Ark will store and preserve DNA samples of endangered species like straight horned African antelopes, Seychelle beetles and British grass crickets .

But then the scientists focused their attention on the possibility of a global disaster, such as the impact of a meteorite or the risk of a ' nuclear winter ' after World War 3 . And, the bank also maintains methods of treating reproductive diseases, freezing eggs and sperm .

ARC is an anticipated plan for the fragile state of life and civilization on earth; because people have faced many catastrophes with great destruction, both epidemics, natural disasters and nuclear disasters. 'The risk of the end of the world may be a bit exaggerated, but we should be alert to act as soon as possible - Robert Shapiro - Honorary Professor of New York University said. Because when we don't need it, we'll have a museum that holds unique species for posterity . '.

Project model Link to save human civilization (ARC - Alliance to Rescue Civilization)
(Photo: photobucket)

Dominate the moon

Professor Robert Shapiro, a biochemist, was the one who came up with the idea of ​​preserving life on earth and was shared by NASA committee chairman Ray Erikson and William E. Burrows, director Director of the Environment, Health and Science Information Program at New York University.

In 1999, in an astronomical journal, Shapiro and Burrows wrote articles suggesting a plan to save human civilization, which would use extraterrestrial capabilities such as stations. space, Moon and Mars . to protect humanity. In July, in the Order of Survival: Use the space to protect the earth (The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth), physicist Stephen W. Hawking also argued that ' the survival of Humans depend on deciding when to leave the earth . '.

And the ARC plan also received the attention of General Buzz Aldrin, the second man walking on the moon. ' That's the main reason to go to the Moon - he said. Although in fact, it was a bad place, but this was the necessary option to secure the future of humanity, because the earth was no longer an ideal place to live . '

The reason why scientists choose Ms. Hang is because it is a very accessible target, it only takes about 4 days to arrive. But if the Moon doesn't meet the requirements for preserving life, another option might be Mars, but the red planet is not the place to start. ' What we should do now is migrate the Moon's life, and then learn from the wrongs that happen on Earth - Burrows said. The next plan is probably the most ambitious part of ARC, the occupation of the Moon as a colony with the youngest population and selected plant and animal species . '.

Embark on the project

At Omaha Air Research Center and the military base of Stamford, Connecticut, Burrow and his colleagues began the first steps to protect humanity. That is to take a backup copy of all life on Earth. Next will be through the construction of a moon colony, where a genetic bank or giant hard disk contains human life. Some people will also encourage permanent settlement in this colony.

Meanwhile, frozen Frozen Bank, which holds a series of genetic copies of threatened species, is also being developed in the UK. Frozen Ark can allow future clones of extinct species such as the panda panda . to resurrect human civilization from human DNA patterns. Barcoding of Life, a project created last year with the aim of collecting the genetic code that characterizes every animal and plant species on the planet, has about 10 million species all stored.

And, Seed Bank seed bank will collect plant varieties in Nordic countries, which will be preserved by the Norwegian National Seed Bank. According to researchers here, it is likely that the bank will be hidden in a cave on Spitsbergen in the Arctic, certainly safe after a nuclear disaster.

Trouble

According to Prof. Burrows, the first obstacle to promoting the plan is funding.'It's hard to say the exact amount of funding for this ambitious adventure project, maybe billions of dollars. But what do you think when the money wasted for the war in Iraq became a burden to the national budget, contributing to the biggest budget deficit for the first time in American history? - he said. So why not give priority to this plan? '.

Dao Hung synthesized