{"id":120499,"date":"2021-03-12T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-are-planning-to-build-noahs-ark-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2021-03-12T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:23:06","slug":"scientists-are-planning-to-build-noahs-ark-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-are-planning-to-build-noahs-ark-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Planning to Build Noah\u2019s Ark on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJDjyN3ni3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earth is destined for disaster. This is a good insurance policy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In 2013, a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a9634\/the-chelyabinsk-lesson-beware-small-asteroids-16128813\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a9634\/the-chelyabinsk-lesson-beware-small-asteroids-16128813\/\">cataclysmic meteor<\/a> the size of a six-story building broke apart above Chelyabinsk, Russia, and the resulting blast was stronger than a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/a23306\/nuclear-bombs-powerful-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/a23306\/nuclear-bombs-powerful-today\/\">nuclear explosion<\/a>. In 2068, astronomers believe a potentially hazardous <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/solar-system\/a34511043\/god-of-chaos-asteroid-headed-for-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/solar-system\/a34511043\/god-of-chaos-asteroid-headed-for-earth\/\">\u201cGod of Chaos\u201d asteroid<\/a> could slam into Earth. Both events suggest humans\u2014and every other animal and plant on Earth\u2014are much more susceptible to total annihilation than we think.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why scientists at the University of Arizona are proposing a far-out concept that just might save us all: a 21st-century version of Noah\u2019s Ark \u2026 on the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/moon-mars\/a28397235\/how-far-is-the-moon-from-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/moon-mars\/a28397235\/how-far-is-the-moon-from-earth\/\">moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This ark wouldn\u2019t contain two of every animal, but rather, a repository of cryogenically frozen reproductive cells from 6.7 million species on our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is destined for disaster. This is a good insurance policy. In 2013, a cataclysmic meteor the size of a six-story building broke apart above Chelyabinsk, Russia, and the resulting blast was stronger than a nuclear explosion. In 2068, astronomers believe a potentially hazardous \u201cGod of Chaos\u201d asteroid could slam into Earth. Both events suggest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2017,12,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-cryonics","category-existential-risks","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}