- Somewhere, someone with a mental disorder had to dream
this one up. Send a Doomsday Ark to the MOON and retrieve data from it
after a catastrophe that wipes out humankind! The last time I read something
this mental was about the infamous space elevator. You might remember that
one another NASA "bright idea" intended to quickly and
economically get payloads into orbit. Never mind that the 2 BILLION volt
electrical potential of the ionosphere would be short-circuited to Earth
by the highly conductive graphite cable they propose to use which
destroy the only solar radiation screen Earth will ever have and wreak
other untold damage to life on Earth. And then there are mechanical stress
issues which are off the scale, too. Looks like the idea of thinking
out an outlandish idea before announcing it after the space elevator fiasco
still isn't reality just yet.
- The "Doomsday Ark" could only be an exercise
in non-thought and infinite stupidity. First, let's look at what it takes
to receive a high bandwidth microwave signal from 250,000 to 300,000 miles
away in space the average distance between the Earth and the Moon.
It would need to be a high data rate signal, if it transmitting EVERYTHING
humankind knows.
- To receive this archival data stream you would need:
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- 1. High gain microwave dish, such as those used for deep
space communications.
- 2. Low noise microwave amplifier, for C band or higher.
- 3. Digital data receiver with error correction capability
- 4. COMPUTER with SOFTWARE that can assemble the data
stream
- 5. A PRINTER with plenty of PAPER that can print out
MILLIONS of pages.
- 6. AC POWER or other power source to run everything listed
above
- 7. The EXACT frequency that the data stream is being
transmitted on. Who will keep a record of that frequency? And where will
it be safe?
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- And let's not forget something else important the
know-how to make the entire system work. Somehow I don't picture a man
sitting in a log cabin, chomping away on a piece of cooked rat as the one
who will put all this together and make it work.
- Perhaps "Doomsday Ark" is a good name
for this it would be a real Doomsday indeed if the human race was
totally depending on receiving this information from the MOON to survive.
- A WORKABLE DOOMSDAY ARK SOLUTION - Ark Pods
- If the Earth is destroyed by something so devastating,
that all the data stored on computers all over the planet is wiped out
as well as the computers and all electronics technology, there will be
nothing left to build all the items in the list shown above. It's far better
to store the data here on EARTH, where you will not need AC power, 2 million
dollars worth of equipment (and the know-how to operate it) in order to
receive it.
- Here's what I propose as a possible Ark Pod solution:
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- 1. The information should be stored using holographic
principles. To accomplish this, we will store identical complete information
on the human race at NUMEROUS sea and land locations around the Earth,
not just at any one place. No one can reliably predict which areas will
be devastated and which areas will not be.
- 2. Since the volume of information is so incredibly huge,
it must be stored on numerous OPTICAL disks and not on magnetic media.
A magnetic or electrical storm or other disaster could wipe out all data
on hard disks, even on the Moon. There are also mountains of useless data
which will not be stored to the betterment of future humans like internet
blogs, chat room logs, porn photos and movies, etc
- 3. Each storage location has one or more hermetically
sealed, watertight Ark Pods. Each one is completely self-contained and
anchored to the sea bottom somewhere near a coastline, or deep inland.
- 4. Each Ark Pod will have multiple sensors to detect
a catastrophe. After the catastrophe is over, the pod will activate and
cut the anchor line causing it to rise to the surface. If a pod is buried
on land, then a flag or something could "pop up" to draw attention
to it or it could have a titanium or concrete marker to identify its location.
Another method for auto-activation is that if the Ark Pod detects no radio
signals from commercial broadcasting for some period of time, it could
also be used as a key to activate it.
- 5. The flea-power requirements of the Ark Pod could
be powered by a zero point cell, solar, wind, ocean currents or a sea water
battery. Each Ark Pod will not use any internal batteries whatsoever. A
digital clock inside the Ark Pod would be of little use, as it would greatly
drift over time. If anything ever happened to change the rotation of the
Earth, clocks as we know them will quickly become worthless.
- 6. Inside each triple-sealed titanium Ark Pod is a carefully
selected collection of the world's accomplishments and information deemed
essential to the survival of humankind, including history. History will
also show what mistakes were made hoping they won't be repeated.
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- Anyone finding an Ark Pod will discover each one contains:
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- a. Three different optical disk readers and displays.
In the event one or even two of them fail to function properly, a third
one could be used. All readers and displays will be powered by solar power
or some other renewable power source not requiring batteries. Disk readers
will be sealed in vacuum containers and will use dry PTFE lubricant for
the entire mechanism. A pump to RE-SEAL the containers will also be provided
to further extend the life of the pod's contents as long as possible after
opening.
- b. Three identical sets of optical disks in each Ark
Pod will contain all human history, sciences and technology, art and music.
Optical disks will contain instructions on how to build basic instruments
and tools.
- c. Highly important information that must not be lost
under any circumstances on optical disks will NOT be stored in FLASH memory
chips. These devices can lose data after 100 years. Instead, older but
highly reliable fusible link or heavily shielded core memory will be used.
(Core memory was used on the Lunar Landers and other spacecraft.) Key information
can also be printed on thin, rugged plastic sheets made of materials such
as Lexan, Polyester, Teflon etc could be used which will not degrade over
time. Perhaps this is why the Sumerians used clay tablets.
- d. Instructions on known methods to generate and use
electricity will be included. History has already shown us the huge impact
this had on the rapid development of society in little more than 100 years.
- e. Basic technology and tools to jump-start civilization.
- f. Locations of the other Ark Pods located around the
Earth will also be included in each Ark Pod to aid in locating the others.
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- The Ark Pod system is intended to give a basic concept
of an effective, holographic method to preserve the accomplishments of
the human race. Details on how to build planet-destroying technologies
like nuclear weapons will not be included, but warnings about using such
technologies will be included along with videos of Hiroshima andNagasaki.
If a nuclear holocaust wipes out life as we know it, would we want to be
the generation that helps our descendants to repeat that mistake?
- We can see that these Ark pods can be sized
to store whatever data required. For something sent to the Moon, size and
weight are everything. To physically give our future descendants something
tangible like materials, construction materials, tools, etc we need to
store it on Earth, not on the Moon.
- Ted Twietmeyer
- tedtw@frontiernet.net
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- [1] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3511818.ece
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