JAKARTA, iNews.id Scientists at the University of Arizona, United States of America conceived of the dome as a storage area for millions seed, spores, eggs and sperm humans to be placed underground in Month. Save millions of seeds as an if scenario doomsday happened and destroyed the Earth.
The scientists presented the idea earlier this month at the IEEE Aerospace Conference. The basic idea, they want to save biodiversity when the worst happens or doomsday occurs. In other words, the dome containing the seeds serves as a back-up so that they are not destroyed.
Jekan Thanga and a team of undergraduate and graduate students in his presentation said that the seeds would be put into an ark.
“We can help save the earth’s biodiversity,” said Thanga, quoted from the Express, Saturday (20/3/2021).
According to him, the ark will store 6.7 million samples of DNA, eggs, sperm, spores, seeds from Earth. The ark will be secured from solar radiation and severe temperature changes because it will be inside the lava tube.
Thanga said, if the Earth experienced a major disaster, the organisms or species on this planet could be lost forever.
He explained that the idea would start by replicating what the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has in Norway, which is about one million seeds on file. They will then start taking it to the moon in 10 to 15 rocket launches.
Thanga estimates it took about 40 rocket launches to build the International Space Station. Plus getting samples from all of the 6.7 million species means about 250 rocket launches.
Thanga estimates that the lunar ark, as they designed it, may become a reality in 30 years. The researchers hope to improve on the design at that time and hope space travel will become cheaper as more and more private companies enter the market.
Editor: Zen Teguh
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