Wil's Rant

Ark on the Moon?:

According to this article, at least one scientist thinks it's a good idea to preserve the worlds DNA on the moon in case of disaster. This plan seems to me to lack a few details. I can't help but wonder what good this would ever do. How would a devastated planet ever be able to mount such a mission to retrieve this DNA library? Would we be able to keep men on the moon in order to have access to this library. I was not aware that we had the ability to mount long term missions on the moon with no support from the earth. Short of having people already there with the library, how would the surviving humans ever get there, or more importantly, how long would it be before humans could develope the capability, again, of launching space missions? This is an idea that might have merit sometime in the future, but for now, it would appear, it would be a vast waste of resources. Instead of planning on how to fix the damage we are creating, perhaps we might consider not creating it in the first place.