Scientists Suggest Freezing Endangered Animals’ Cells and Preserving Them on the Moon

There are a million and one science fiction reasons auto why this article made me nervous. However, I am neither a scientist nor an astronaut. via Smithsonian

As more species become threatened with extinction, scientists have proposed an ambitious idea to secure the planet’s biodiversity: a back-up repository of animals’ genetic data, frozen and stored on the moon.

In a paper published late last month in the journal BioScience, researchers propose assembling a box full of cryopreserved cells from a diverse range of animal species—then sending it to a shadowed region on the moon, where conditions are naturally cold enough to keep the samples frozen.

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