spaceflight, 6 months ago

#Guardian 📆 19 Nov 2023 A #WWF report found that global #wildlife 🦌 populations had plummeted by 69% 📉 in the past 50 years, largely linked to #human activities.
In 📆 2021, engineers from the #University of #Arizona unveiled proposals for a #SolarPowered “#lunar 🌙 ark”, which would seek to cryopreserve seeds, sperm and egg samples and store 🔒 them in a facility built into the #moon’s #LavaTubes https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/19/the-doomsday-vaults-storing-seeds-data-and-dna-to-protect-our-future

steinarb, 6 months ago

@spaceflight Latency will be bad.

spaceflight, 6 months ago

@steinarb As people do more in outer space, they will need IT resources nearer to them to avoid long latencies https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2022/12/27/storage-in-outer-space/