Building Noah’s Ark in Space
When an asteroid the size of Manhattan hits the earth we are as dead as the dinosaurs. How can we preserve our civilization when the time comes?
The moon is scheduled to have it’s first base by 2024. Original plans were to take advantage of the moon’s resources and to serve as a launching pad for further exploration. Jim Burke of International Space University added a third to the list, a way to preserve our world.
Major asteroids or comets hit the earth every 100 million years and the last major impact was 65 million years ago. The clock is ticking and we never really know if we might be on a collision trajectory with larger objects in deep space until it may be too late.
“In the event of a global catastrophe, the ARC facilities will be prepared to reintroduce lost technology, art, history, crops, livestock, and, if necessary, even human beings to the Earth.”
So now the $100 million question, what goes inside the ark? It seems that billionaire philanthropists get the first say. Their donations will fund a major portion of the project.
You can bet your ass there will be no iPhones if Bill Gates is on that list.
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BigMike said
am August 19 2007 @ 10:09 pm
scienctists say that durring the formation of the Earth, a asteroid smashed into our planet and the resulting remainder is what we call The Moon. My question is what happens if the comet hits the moon first and then smashes into Earth? Wheres the contingency plan for that?
Jerad Kaliher said
am August 20 2007 @ 6:13 am
@BigMike, I think at that point we are all pretty screwed.
There are contingency plans for shooting an asteroid out of the sky with a nuke, but then you have to get Bruce Willis on the scene with a group of roughneck drillers and a terrible movie will take place yet again.
Drew Smith said
am September 11 2007 @ 1:09 pm
So I wonder, then, if the world is suffering something so cataclysmic as to require us to start from “scratch”, how difficult it would be to access some stuff being stored in outer space. Even if it just requires remote command to start an automated re-entry plan into action, the people in charge of such access would have to wait until the earth was reasonably safe again. Furthermore, people with access to the codes required would be presumably few so as to avoid an erroneous start of re-entry. I’ve been seeing this arc story surface in other media, such as Monday’s nation/world section of the OC Register, and I can’t help but wonder about some of the specific technicalities of anything space bound.
Jerad Kaliher said
am September 11 2007 @ 7:35 pm
@Drew Smith, I would imagine that if something extremely cataclysmic happens to the earth that there is very little we will be able to do. At least now in our present state. We would need to be a hell of a lot further away from the moon in my opinion. I think that commercial space exploration may fuel the next big boom to make that happen, but that won’t be for a few years.
Good to see that I’m ahead of the OC Register. Then again you can always count on them for all of your plastic surgery and late night “massage” needs still… ha!