This is the kinda dumb shit that gets talked up when all the female scientists are out of the room.

[Nevilledog]

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David Simon
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This is the kinda dumb shit that gets talked up when all the female scientists are out of the room.

New York Post
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Scientists want to send 6.7M sperm samples to the moon https://trib.al/S0uBGRl
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[Solly Mack]

1. Suddenly the moon being made of cheese has become something yucky instead of merely fanciful.

[Klaralven]

2. Ova too

Scientists want to send 6.7M sperm samples to the moon

In what they’re calling a “modern global insurance policy,” mechanical engineers have proposed that humans establish a repository of reproductive cells — sperm and ova — from 6.7 million of Earth’s species, including humans.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/scientists-want-to-build-a-sperm-bank-on-the-moon/

[lagomorph777]

3. Hard to think of a worse place for a genetic repository.

The radiation on the moon is intense; it will quickly sterilize the samples.

[Klaralven]

4. The proposal is to put it at the bottom of "lunar pits"

The pits also are the perfect size for cell storage, according to Thanga. They go down 80 to 100 meters underground and “provide readymade shelter from the surface of the moon,” which endures “major temperature swings,” as well as threats from meteorites and radiation.

But it is a daft plan anyway, since if a catastrophe on earth was great enough to require "re-seeding", there would be no way to get the material back to earth and to develop fertilized ova into animals.

[marble falls]

5. And then you read the article and it's not so whacko. They include ova as well.

[krispos42]

6. There's a "spank bank" joke in here somewhere...

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