Mankind's Secrets To Be Stored On Moon

In addition to the Doomsday seed bank, now plans are being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” in which hard discs holding information such as DNA sequences and instructions for metal smelting or planting crops would be contained. This Doomsday Ark would be kept on the moon. It would be buried in a vault just under the lunar surface and transmitters would send the data to heavily protected receivers on earth. If no receivers survived, the ark would continue transmitting the information until new ones could be built. The vault could later be extended to include natural material including microbes, animal embryos and plant seeds and even cultural relics such as surplus items from museum stores.

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