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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Always back up your data
Don't you hate it when your word processing program crashes while you're typing a paper or you loose your flash drive? What about humanity?
Cue the Alliance to Rescue Civilization, a group that advocates a backup for humanity by way of a station on the Moon replete with DNA samples of all life on Earth, as well as a compendium of all human knowledge — the ultimate detached garage for a race of packrats. It would be run by people who, through fertility treatments and frozen human eggs and sperm, could serve as a new Adam and Eve in addition to their role as a new Noah.
Full story in the New York Times.
Posted by Will at August 1, 2006 01:43 PM in In the News