Actually going to the moon is ridiculously inconvenient even now, never mind post-apocalypse.
It's not the actual DNA you'd want tho; a record of the genome would probably do. You could include all literature, music, films, etc, too. So a self-maintaining installation on the moon, or perhaps merely in a very high orbit, which just broadcast the genome of everything, in a loop, forever, would do. You'd want to make sure it lasted a long time without maintenance, as you don't want to keep popping up their to maintain it.
(If you have a permanent colony on the moon then it becomes a potential target in a hypothetical war, in which case you have to move the perpetual information bank somewhere further away.)
Oops, I actually meant whether it was worthwhile; whether it's practical or not is a whole 'nother ball game, which you've covered yourself plentifully.
Perhaps considerations of nuclear wars and asteroid impacts are a question merely of scale, not of fact, in this matter. It seems to me that a mass extinction is underway right now, it might be nice and quite probably also useful to be able to rapidly restore the diversity of life forms by technological means, rather than waiting a few megayears for it to happen naturally, once we've improved our collective behaviour. Supposing we ever do.
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Date: 2004-09-10 01:29 am (UTC)Actually going to the moon is ridiculously inconvenient even now, never mind post-apocalypse.
It's not the actual DNA you'd want tho; a record of the genome would probably do. You could include all literature, music, films, etc, too. So a self-maintaining installation on the moon, or perhaps merely in a very high orbit, which just broadcast the genome of everything, in a loop, forever, would do. You'd want to make sure it lasted a long time without maintenance, as you don't want to keep popping up their to maintain it.
(If you have a permanent colony on the moon then it becomes a potential target in a hypothetical war, in which case you have to move the perpetual information bank somewhere further away.)
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