[FPSPACE] 'Lunar Ark' could preserve civilization, group says

[LARRY KLAES]

'Lunar Ark' could preserve civilisation, group says

The Moon could be used to "reboot" civilisation in case an asteroid strike 
or other disaster devastates Earth, a group called the Alliance to Rescue 
Civilization says.

By keeping a repository of technology, history, crops, and livestock on the 
Moon, humanity would have a way to restart civilisation following a 
catastrophe, the group says. A study of the idea is being led by former NASA 
manager Jim Burke of the International Space University in Strasbourg, 
France.

Full article here:

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2007/08/lunar-ark-could-preserve-civilisation.html