Earth's Backup Plan

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:31 pm

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Ever wonder how we'd repopulate Earth after most life on it was destroyed? Me neither. But Dr. Bernard Foing of the <a href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html">European Space Agency</a> has the solution. His plan involves the Moon and inspiration from a guy called Noah. <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3635972.stm" target=_blank>BBC News</a> is on the case:<blockquote>Dr Foing is head of Europe's Moon missions, so his thoughts on matters lunar should be taken seriously.
 
 He is concerned that if the Earth were destroyed, there would be little or nothing left of the rich diversity of life on the planet. His solution is to build a DNA library on Earth's satellite.
 
 "If there were a catastrophic collision on Earth or a nuclear war, you could place some samples of Earth's biosphere, including humans, [on the Moon]," he said.
 
 "You could repopulate the Earth afterwards, like a Noah's Ark," he said.</blockquote>Their first moon probe, "Smart 1", is expected to arrive in November.
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S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:09 pm

Weak part of the plan : "You" needs to be impervious to nuclear war.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:10 pm

If the "Earth were destroyed", as he put it, we'd all be mixed in with rocks and lava floating through space.

HOWEVER, if there were an ecological disaster that destroyed most life, DNA samples might be a good thing to have. But why not go cheaper and put the samples in a comfortable, self-contained underground bunker?

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:01 pm

Good idea Retlaw. I'll call VaultTek and ahve them get to work.

Stevie D · Post by **Stevie D** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:45 pm

Bollocks! Humanity couldn't create a decent level extinction event if it tried. Nuclear war? Nuclear bollocks.

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:55 am

*Evisions post-apocalyptic nuclear winter...*

The fallout fans, sitting in holes sharing deathclaw survival tales and writing 'Vault tec' on all their ragged possessions in biro while everyone else rebuilds society with stored DNA samples....

*strange, strange imagination...*

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:27 am

Sorry Max, I lost interest at the first mention of the word moon.

Why don't these scientists start building some friggin vaults?

hat_man99 · Post by **hat_man99** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:30 am

I GOT DIB'S ON FRONT SEAT!!

ALSO IF NUC WAR OR NATRUAL DISASSTOR DOES HAPPEN WON'T THERE STILL BE ALL THE CUASE OF THE DISASTORS AND THE SIVIVOURS TO DEAL WITH (LIKE MY LITTLE BROTHER WHOS IMMUNE TO
INTELLAGNCE OR RADIATION LIKE THE BUG HE STILL IS!

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:32 am

God damn it, why can't we live in the fifties, when space was a non-entity. Dig down, don't shoot shit at the hunk of rock floating over us. I say nuke it. Better yet, use a magnet so that asteroids hit the moon, not us. Hell I want to make a movie, an homage to all those lame END OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE movies a few years back. Except it will be about the moon being destroyed by a rogue... satellite. Filled with atom bombs. And somewhere an underdressed, poorly acting blond will fit in. Maybe the love interest of the robotic slave-man destined by holy right to save the moon and become the God Emperor of Dune.

hat_man99 · Post by **hat_man99** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:32 am

PS IM SOORY FOR AL THE SPELLLING MASTAKES

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:33 am

...

*stares at hat_man99...*

It was his first post... how tragic.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:35 am

Talk about bad intro. All caps, piss-poor spelling, moronic content.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:37 am

jetbaby wrote:God damn it, why can't we live in the fifties, when space was a non-entity.

Uhhh... space was the OBSESSION of the 50s. That and communism.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:39 am

Franz_Schubert wrote:Uhhh... space was the OBSESSION of the 50s. That and communism.

But not for survival. It was just a place to dream about and to put missles to shoot the ruskies.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:41 am

Good point... everything in the fifties was focused on things coming FROM space and attacking Earth. Nowadays it's the other way around.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:43 am

Exactly. That's why I demand the immediate and unconditional surrender of all of space. It has held it's angry fist over our heads for far too long. We humans shall no longer be subject to your whim. We are Man. We are strong. We will win. Please don't smite us with your universal fists of ice and poison gas. Or radiation, a la Night of the Living Dead.

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:50 am

Night of the Living Dead = Human satellite crashing to earth covered in nasty mean dead-raising radioactivivitationness. *nodnod*

In the fifties every child in america wished to be an astronaught... it was the space-lubber era. I say we... steal all the nukes, launch them into the most utterly blank area of space possible, then all sit down and play post-nuclear/zombie-apocalypse games. Yep. And dance dance revolution. (For no specific reason. I hate DDR in all forms personally.)

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:54 pm

Wasn't there a movie about the Moon getting blown up and causing shit on earth?

Sovy Kurosei · Post by **Sovy Kurosei** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:19 pm

Wouldn't be a bad idea for a movie, since the earth relies on the moon for continential drift and the tides.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:14 pm

The moon probably had some influences on human history too, and on our determination to search the space.