How such a network of tunnels could be created is as intriguing as what goes inside, according to UArizona. “We needed a whole ecosystem to follow us, particularly to support us in terms of food, support us in terms of living,” he said. The plan includes ways to store as much organic material as possible in the tunnels, and the supply needs to be as diverse as Mother Nature. “I think it’s going to become part of the disaster-preparation toolset, or tool kit,” Thanga said.
The plan, still in the conceptual phase, envisions a facility tucked in lava tunnels discovered on the moon in 2013, where the genetic resources could be housed until needed. It’s a “modern global insurance policy,” said Thanga, a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the university’s College of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Jekan Thanga, an assistant professor, is guiding a group of graduate and undergraduate students to conceive a “backup plan” of vital resources. All cryogenically preserved in a vault, like a sort of “ lunar ark.” But wouldn’t ‘global insurance’ be expensive? Egg and sperm from creatures great and small. Perhaps guided by Hollywood disaster movies, partly by the looming danger of climate change, the team has proposed a packing list in case a global disaster makes Mother Earth unlivable. ( Photo by sjmck/ Creative Commons)Īn engineering team at the University of Arizona is proposing a “doomsday vault” – in lava tunnels on the moon – to preserve the wondrous diversity of life on Earth if the apocalypse comes. A “doomsday vault” of cryogenic materials like plant seeds and human sperm, built in a facility in lava tunnels on the moon, could be a resource to start life in case of a global disaster, said Jekan Thanga, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona.
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