Scientists want to send 6.7 million sperm samples to Moon in Doomsday plan
dailystar.co.ukScientists reckon we should build a space ark to send 6.7 million sperm and egg samples to the Moon in a Doomsday plan.University of Arizona researchers described their whacky idea as a "modern global insurance policy" in case life is wiped out on Earth.It would be see cryogenically-frozen batches travel 239,000 miles to be stored in a "lunar pit" vault beneath the satellite's surface, according to reports.They said the lunar ark could help us repopulate our planet following a catastrophic disaster such as a deadly epidemic, a super volcanic eruption, a large-scale nuclear war, widespread drought, or an asteroid.It would supposedly work like the "Doomsday" seed vault which holds more than a million crop samples from almost every country in.
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