Its latest project<\/a>: encoding important books and crowdsourced images into synthetic DNA molecules, and storing them on the Moon.<\/p> To tackle the DNA project, Arch Mission is collaborating with Microsoft, the University of Washington, and the Twist Bioscience Corporation. The collaborators chose DNA, they wrote<\/a> in a press release, because it can store information in an ultra-compact form.<\/p> “Using DNA as a building block you can write and store information in an extremely small volume,” said Arch Mission co-founder Nova Spivack in an interview<\/a> with Scientific American<\/em>. “A tiny liquid droplet could contain Amazon’s entire data center. You can then replicate it inexpensively to create literally billions of copies.”<\/p> Once they’ve stored the data in the DNA — which will include 20 books selected by Project Gutenberg and 10,000 crowdsourced images of everyday life — the plan is to send it to the Moon on an Atlas V rocket in 2020, according to Scientific American. <\/em><\/p> The Moon project is just an early step in Arch Mission’s very ambitious plans, which include building a vast repository of human knowledge and placing copies on planets, asteroids, comets, and moons around the solar system.<\/p> It’s not clear, Spivack acknowledged in the Scientific American <\/em>interview, how likely it is that future life forms would ever actually stumble across one of those archives. But the project, he argued, is also a “grand gesture that brings together our hopes and dreams about becoming a spacefaring civilization.”<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Lunar library to include photos, books stored in DNA<\/a> [University of Washington<\/em>]<\/p> More on the Moon: Why Are We Going to the Moon, Again? Oh Right, to Make It a “Gas Station for Outer Space”<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p> Here is the original post: MOON UNIT Imagine, for a second, that human life has been snuffed out like the flame of a candle. Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if we\u2019d archived the sum of our knowledge for whoever might come along next? Continue reading DNA INFO<\/h2>
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