Space Scientists want to Repopulate the Moon with Sperm Bank

[Husky_Khan]

Just yesterday I posted how Russia and China wanted to establish a joint Outpost on the Moon and now it appears, the stakes have grown even higher!

In what they’re calling a “modern global insurance policy,” mechanical engineers have proposed that humans establish a repository of reproductive cells — sperm and ova — from 6.7 million of Earth’s species, including humans.

Scientists want to send 6.7M sperm samples to the moon

Scientists call is a “modern global insurance policy.”

nypost.com

 

[Captain X]

I was just thinking to myself that the moon might make a good location for another doomsday vault.

 

[Zachowon]

Can I volunteer to donate my sperm for such use?

 

[Bassoe]

In event of civilizational collapse on earth, how do they intend to retrieve it? We've mined out all the easy coal and oil which can be reached without preexisting technological infrastructure and which is necessary for building technological infrastructure in the first place.

 

[Marduk]

Wouldn't putting it in some weird unused high orbit work better for all practical purposes?

 

[Captain X]

No, because then it would be easier for other people to fuck with it.

 

[prinCZess]

The moon is a harsh mistress, but otherwise seems like fertile ground for this type of thing. Humanity must thrust itself, repeatedly, towards the stars and this is a gentle enough way of easing the Moon through what would be a challenging first-time presence of man's erect structures inside of its tight lunar body. Of course, the proposal is too chaste in its goal. The idea should be reproduced not just for the moon, but for all nine planets of the Solar System! And from then we should attempt repositories on passing asteroids and the like that can spread Earth-based genetic material to the wider galaxy. Mark humanity's presence in the womb of the galaxy! The spice seed must flow!
*cough*
Sorry. I may have gotten distracted in there somewhere.

While a cool think-piece, and while the relative ease of getting all the necessary samples up there in the first place is noted, most of the challenge lies in the construction of the vault and systems itself...And that seems like a challenge that might be more efficiently and effectively taken-up in the aftermath of human habitation attempts and solutions to that. So that seems a needed precursor--going backwards and adapting human-safe habitats into structure that can serve as long-term storage and don't need to handle steady human traffic in and out or around seems like it'd be an easier challenge than trying to reach for the storage-area first-thing.

 

[Marduk]

No, because then it would be easier for other people to fuck with it.

If other people are still there and in a shape to fuck with it, that means its probably not needed.

 

[Captain X]

I was thinking more in terms of someone lobbing a missile at it rather than having anything to do with any kind of apocalypse.

 

[Marduk]

I was thinking more in terms of someone lobbing a missile at it rather than having anything to do with any kind of apocalypse.

Of all the things to lob a missile at, why this? Missiles are expensive, and when some country is in a situation in which they lob missiles at random satellites, they probably need every missile they can get for targets of military value.

 

[Captain X]

Spite.

 

[Doomsought]

In event of civilizational collapse on earth, how do they intend to retrieve it? We've mined out all the easy coal and oil which can be reached without preexisting technological infrastructure and which is necessary for building technological infrastructure in the first place.

They don't retrieve the civilization on earth, they have to rebuild using resources in space. At least solar power is reliable up there.