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flyingsquidwolfJul 4, 2010
Oh, I feel so much better about everything now.
mistysteeleJul 5, 2010
I do too ... umm ... wait a minute, why are they starting this now? Is there something they know that they're not telling us?
hmyauhnoJul 5, 2010
Search Rising Moon on you tube
xeemoJul 5, 2010
You'd rather they start it after a giant asteroid hits the earth? Or a nuclear war?
ghostykiddJul 5, 2010
what they dont tell you is that the only people who will be on this ark are families with royal bloodlines...and the mega mega rich.
yay for doomsday!
*sigh*
macbookformeJul 4, 2010
At least there's a backup resort against our own stupidity.......
navicertsJul 5, 2010
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samsmartjrJul 5, 2010
What happens if the Moon is used to destroy the Earth?
rasone77Jul 4, 2010
Don't you think the Moon is a little close to the Earth. We shouldn't put all our eggs in one basket, let's put money into creating one on mars too. /s
navicertsJul 5, 2010
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craig304958Jul 5, 2010
Yeah, what's wrong with having the Earth's most destructive species put samples of its DNA in a vacuum-packed, radiation-bathed life-hostile environment? Oh, and no doubt a gold-plated brag about the achievements of Ozymandias or whoever as well? What's stupid about that?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
t1britJul 5, 2010
Yeah - a quarter of a million miles is too close for comfort
milsorgnJul 5, 2010
Lol reminds me of Assimov's Foundation
cyberoidxJul 5, 2010
Read the entire series, now for the prequels. (Not by IA)
Must read for sci-fi fans.
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
and that is my 5000 year plan.
creationismlolJul 23, 2010
And I can't wait for the movie adaptation /s
soktayJul 5, 2010
Instead, why not carve all that information on stones? Oh, wait...
brezzzJul 5, 2010
How am I supposed to get there in an emergency.?
I am going, right?
cyberoidxJul 5, 2010
No, its going to be stored there in case aliens come and want to see what Earth was in its _glorious_ years.
richmomzJul 5, 2010
Yes yes you're going... erm... just keep paying your taxes and don't worry about it...
jmaisJul 13, 2010
Make sure your passport photo is up to date, too.
prettygreenJul 5, 2010
The comments on the original article are hilariously stupid.
stormcommanderJul 5, 2010
If a giant asteroid hit the Earth and destroyed the whole thing... well isn't the Moon not too far away? Don't think it would be safe from a giant asteroid that hits the Earth.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
harabeckJul 5, 2010
Uh, the moon would be fine unless the "asteroid" were something large enough to destroy the Earth entirely. Although at that point, I think we'd call it a rogue planetoid.
stormcommanderJul 5, 2010
That's what I said:
"hit the Earth and destroyed the whole thing"
sniperhareJul 5, 2010
What a waste of money.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
In your case, sure.
ahfmakJul 5, 2010
There had better be Cheetos on board.
richmomzJul 5, 2010
And bacon... otherwise survival is pointless.
kyanJul 5, 2010
Ooooo, Cheetos AND Bacon. I must digg you both up and call on my digg brothers to do the same.
myztryJul 5, 2010
If you can get bacon to survive then you can get human flesh to survive because the two are disturbingly similar.
fadingsignalJul 24, 2010
Bacon Beacon
oxidaneJul 5, 2010
politicians will be the first people accepted. dont get your balls all excited yet.
-oh ya, and since the under-educated have more kids nowadays, and are more likely to repopulate, dont count on a better society either.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
stormcommanderJul 5, 2010
Nah, it would just be people with power. They wouldn't REALLY care about repopulation. Just saving themselves.
oxidaneJul 5, 2010
they will need slaves. more specifically, wage slaves.
kingbpdJul 5, 2010
I hope my contract is up with AT&T by then because my reception is going to suck even worse there.
adml_shakeJul 5, 2010
Of course it will be built by the lowest bidder, and more than likely fail should it ever in face be needed.
craig304958Jul 5, 2010
Nah, it'll be sole-sourced to some corporate owner of whoever is in charge at the time, amid lots of flag-waving and prayer and other PR.
baphclassJul 5, 2010
Sixteen million years from now, these vaults will be all that's left of humanity. Hopefully whatever alien explorers happen upon it will care to remember that we existed at all.
stormcommanderJul 5, 2010
In 15 million years, we better be a lot farther out then the Moon.
llammapandacatJul 5, 2010
jesus christ, no kidding, i want to find a planet with only straight women, and loots of fresh fruit, vegetation, and tropical weather. Then Ill go in and be like "oh yes"Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
chocchunkoatiesJul 5, 2010
Amazonian women & Snoo Snoo?
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
In 15 million years "Humans" would look like aliens to us now. Even if natural evolution doesn't make changes, we will as our medical science advances and we tinker with our own DNA.
Sure it's largely the realm of Sci-Fi now, but it will happen.
capitalismkillsJul 5, 2010
This has happened before.... It will happen again :)
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there who claim we've already found ruins and/or relics of ancient civilizations on the moon.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
He means Battlestar Galactica.
hmyauhnoJul 5, 2010
yeah there is a vid called Rising Moon, seen it?
hmyauhnoJul 5, 2010
http://divinecosmos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=300&Itemid=70
myztryJul 5, 2010
The Goa'uld will seed our planet again...
themachine1Jul 5, 2010
I read elsewhere* it will have two frozen human bodies.
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/magpie2000/caps2/idiocracy4.jpg
*My imagination.
charlesdkraussJul 5, 2010
I think Mars would be a better option. At least it has some sort of gravity, atmosphere, soil, etc. among many other advantages.
roontJul 5, 2010
mars would also be thousands of times harder 1) to install the "arK' and 2) to retrieve it if necessary. At least we can "see" the moon as more then a speck in the sky.
rudegarJul 5, 2010
and we can get free rides around on all the rovers up there
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
The moon is right there, an estimated 304 403km from earth. And we've been there and hit it with more things than any other celestial object (besides earth).
Mars is at closest 54 600 000km and at farthest 401 000 000km away and we've only hit it with a few things and never been there.
I get the feeling, in any instance, that this is a temporary salvage plan to hold us over until we are better equiped to prepare for the apocalypse.
myztryJul 5, 2010
The Artic is a much more hospitable place then any of those planets on it's darkest days.
Never mind the atmosphere. Can life designed for Earth even form without bone density forming gravity, magnetic shielding, and all those other intangibles that can't be bottled.
spazattack5000Jul 14, 2010
Mars has low gravity too keep in mind. Also the Moon has what is believed to be pretty good soil. One other thing is that solar radiation on the moon is significantly higher. At first that may seem like a bad thing but it can be harnessed to generate high amount of power for a lunar settlement.
willwinterJul 5, 2010
Yes, but beware of the Nazi outpost on the dark side of the moon.
dlan4327Jul 5, 2010
Really hope they make that movie.
cyberoidxJul 5, 2010
And store it on the moon.
Fwiw, overhyping on a movie makes it a bad experience for me.
That movie will suck balls.
rudegarJul 5, 2010
død snø (dead snow) was ok for a low budget Norwegian zombie nazi movie
chang3Jul 5, 2010
There is no dark side in the moon, really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.
armageddon2012Jul 5, 2010
12.21.2012. I've got my ticket ready.
llammapandacatJul 5, 2010
gtfo, 2012 already happened when we switched Julian to cesarean calendar. dumbass
llammapandacatJul 5, 2010
whoops, Justinian**
leemapleJul 5, 2010
I also love the winter solstice. What do you have tickets for?
skeloothJul 5, 2010
How are we going to get it FROM the moon -_-
chocchunkoatiesJul 5, 2010
Have you never seen Space Balls the movie?
Escape pods dear Sir.... escape pods....
smokeydabearJul 5, 2010
So basically they're going to put Facebook on the moon.
themachine1Jul 5, 2010
I read elsewhere it will have two frozen bodies.
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6721/idiocracy4.jpg
inactiveuserJul 5, 2010
1 We are so stupid, powerless, uninventive and frail we feel that having a doomsday thingy is a worthy thing
2 We are stupid as a species we can't help ourselves when selfish reasons are in focus.
3 WE HAVE NUKES
4 THEY HAVE NUKES
5 WE ALL NEED NUKES BUT THEY CANT HAVE THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT, therefore we need nukes.
6 Money is more important than the planet.
7 f**k the right wing asswipes.
8 f**k the communistsComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
fullbackJul 5, 2010
Why don't we just stop slaughtering each other and fouling the places where we live? That should keep us going until our star grows and devours the planet. We haven't been around very long anyway and we're fragile, not hearty creatures. The odds are that we'll be wiped out from some astronomical, ecological or biological event, just like all the other species that have disappeared.
We aren't getting off this planet because we're going to run out of time.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
arizonaicedteaJul 5, 2010
You think humans can survive on this planet for billions of years? I'd be surprised if we made it another 200 at this rate.
craig304958Jul 5, 2010
The dinosaurs lasted, what, 250 million years. Of course, they weren't in the destructive rush that humans are in. And they probably didn't have religions to justify the most stupid things they did.
llammapandacatJul 5, 2010
Dyno-Judiasm!
arizonaicedteaJul 5, 2010
Dinosaurs are a category of reptiles, not a single species, and did not use resources or affect the environment anywhere near the same scope as humans currently are. Really their survival rate is in no way indicative of ours.
strangebeastJul 5, 2010
'The moon, it's chasing me! Everywhere I go, there he is! Knock it off, moon!"
lordbenJul 5, 2010
I see several problems with this plan.
The first being storing DNA on the moon is pointless. By the time people had the experience to actually create an organism from just the dna sequence they would be more advanced than we are currently and not in need of the help.
Perhaps it might be a shortcut as they wouldn't have to re sequence all the things sequenced already, but again to make use of the tech they would have to be able to do their own sequencing anyways.
Then there is the whole fact that if all this data etc. is destroyed does anyone really think that there are going to be people setting up receivers etc. any time soon. Sure it would give them info, but even knowing what can be done with instructions etc the infrastructure would have to be set up. Even with highly detailed instructions on how to make a computer it would require thousands of factories. And likely thousands more to make the parts for those factories.
As for storing microbes, tulips etc on the moon the same thing applies. The tech required to get the stuff would be such that the items would probably not be needed by the time they had to tech to retrieve them. These items might be of interest to historians etc, but beyond that they're not going to help save the world or bring it back.
If i was the researchers I would gather all the info and put it into a huge torrent and ask everyone to download it and be creative on where to store it and how to make it readable thousands of years from now. Even if 99% of the repositories are destroyed odds are at least one will survive. Also I would make it include basic instructions on how to build everything from smelting and creating iron to a steam engine to simple circuit boards all the way up to a modern computer.
wastelanderJul 5, 2010
"Then there is the whole fact that if all this data etc. is destroyed does anyone really think that there are going to be people setting up receivers etc. any time soon."
"The information would be held in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish and would be linked by transmitter to 4,000 “Earth repositories” that would provide shelter, food, a water supply for survivors"
So the plan is to build the receivers also, but then (getting back to your point) why not just make 4,000 copies of the information instead? Its not like information storage is expensive.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
What kind of RAID will they be using for something that size? Good luck replacing drives if they fail after the apocalypse.
kyanJul 5, 2010
"Even if 99% of the repositories are destroyed odds are at least one will survive."
No kidding?
dlan4327Jul 5, 2010
They had to name it a "Doomsday Ark" didn't they? THese things never get positive name.
How about Survival Beacon? Genesis Ark? Earth Mark II?
rudegarJul 5, 2010
mmmmmmmm survival bacon
Closed AccountJul 21, 2010
genesis ark like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_(Doctor_Who)
libertyprimeJul 5, 2010
I say we just go down with the ship.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
"Come on baby, lift your heavy ass for Sasha." - best line in 2012 ever
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
This will not happen.
hipmanJul 5, 2010
Why not?.What's wrong with it?.
ronintetsuroJul 5, 2010
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bytecolorJul 5, 2010
Mass Extinction Resurection Kit.
Pro Tip #1 -- Omit Religion
yotuniiJul 5, 2010
What, you haven't watched The Book of Eli? :)
phylaxerJul 5, 2010
Mass Extinction Resurrection Kit.
Pro Tip #2 -- Omit self-destructive species (humans)
faptigerJul 5, 2010
dugg for survival bacon
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
"I think I'll call it… Bob."
*New Earth - Planet Bob*
/s**ttyreference
alexhouseJul 5, 2010
Hell yes, Titan A.E.
nepidaeJul 5, 2010
I was going to make this reference if no one else did :)
assassyn360Jul 5, 2010
I say the storage structure should be a black obelisk.
roontJul 5, 2010
I like the idea of the solar panel ringed around the moon better. If we can utilize a virtually inexhaustable power source like the sun, we wouldn't need this at all.
solkreJul 5, 2010
And the aliens will laugh at us because the iPhone 4 loses signal when you hold it. Yet they still re-create it and buy it by the billions themselves. Steve Job's dent in the universe is complete.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
Wow, a lifespan of 30 years? They really don't have much faith in the human race do they?
jgoodsteinJul 5, 2010
Am I the only one that realizes that if the earth is destroyed that will change, and that we have no real theory on what will happen. If the earth is destroyed the moon could be peppered with shrapnel, plus if the asteroid changes the earths shape, orbit, gravitational field this will also effect the moon. Perhaps the moon will end up being a spaceship like in Hitchhikers Guide.. can we put an improbability drive on it perhaps?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
riolio11Jul 5, 2010
I think they're betting on some kind of nuclear disaster, not the actual destruction of the planet.
kyanJul 5, 2010
Oh no, they actually mean the destruction of the planet itself. As in disintegrates into smithereens, pulverised, extinguished. That's definitely what they mean.
riolio11Jul 5, 2010
Why so few languages? Seriously, if this is actually going to go through they could at least translate a bit more.
robert99aJul 5, 2010
humanity isn't worth saving. let it die.
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
Just for s**ts and giggles, can we put an Ark B somewhere too? I'm not thinking of hair dressers, middle managers or marketing specialists here, but a conservative paradise made up of Sarah Palins and Glen Becks: Bibles, creationism and Sunday school — no Darwin, Galileo or stem-cell research. A teabagger's Eden. It'd be interesting to see what that'd devolve into.
copypastryJul 5, 2010
Wouldn't work man, Jesus hates science. Don't you watch FOX?
TrancendenceJul 5, 2010
We don't deserve another planet. If there's going to be any ark it better just be bacteria and plant life.
IF we end the life sustaining ability of Earth with nuclear weapons why should we go to another planet? It might be okay if we terraform planets that are not able to sustain life to being able to sustain life and then end up wrecking the place but we better not move to a planet that can sustain life without terraforming and mess that up with humans.
In any case I see the human race's near future as fighting over limited resources (arable land, drinkable water, harvest locations, hunting grounds) and once the population gets to a sustainable size (resources renew at a rate to sustain the population) then we will start to civilize again and we repeat our mistakes all over again.
kyanJul 5, 2010
We been there, done that. You just don't know it.
t1britJul 5, 2010
Moon tulips !!
4degreesJul 5, 2010
did they consider that what ever may destroy the earth may also destroy the moon, or lead to the moon's destruction? Its like, dont put all your eggs in one basket, put a couple next to the basket and somehow those eggs will be safe.
icadilJul 5, 2010
There is a lot of negativity here, the amount of peace to conflict is staggering, you seem to be suggesting that there is more conflict than peace. You are wrong, peace outweighs conflict considerably.
Also, I have no problem trying again on another planet, at least we will have learned, besides it is highly unlikely that the conditions will be exact and thus what we do here will have a different effect there.
pixelrageJul 5, 2010
Ehh, do they know something we don't? :( :/
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
Actual research utilizing Biodomes usualy end badly, sticky purple punch...
babywookieJul 5, 2010
Shame on us, doomed from the start
May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts
Shame on us for all we have done
And all we ever were. Just zeros and ones
vhishiousJul 5, 2010
You human lot never give up, do you?
Closed AccountJul 5, 2010
I always thought that the moon would be a good spot for data centers to host offsite (offplanet?) disaster recovery.
rhickrhollJul 5, 2010
Know us Ark