Scientists researching "space ark"

[Brazen]

Thought Tim would be all over this!

Scientists Building 'Space Ark' to Save Humanity

Scientists are developing an interstellar Noah's Ark - a self-sustaining spaceship that can carry humans on a one-way mission to find a new world to inhabit in the event of a global catastrophe.

Researchers around the UK are working with colleagues from the US, Italy and the Netherlands on Project Persephone, investigating new bio-technologies that could one day help to create a self-sustaining spacecraft to carry people beyond our solar system.

The spaceship would incorporate into its structure organic matter such as algae and artificial soil, using the Sun's energy to produce biofuel and a sustainable source of food, 'The Times' reported.

It would need to keep a few thousand people alive for generations on a one-way mission to find a new world to inhabit, researchers said.

According to the project website, scientists are "considering the application of living technologies such as protocells, programmable smart chemistry, in the context of habitable starship architecture that can respond and evolve according to the needs of its inhabitants."

Rachel Armstrong, a senior architecture and design lecturer at the University of Greenwich, is leading the project, which includes 13 designers, six of whom are based in the UK.

Armstrong's research focuses on bio-engineering, developing artificial soil and droplets of water that can be programmed to carry key elements.

"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation. We need nature to survive, so how do we take nature with us?" said Steve Fuller, the team's sociologist, based at the University of Warwick.

Researchers hope the project's principal use will be to  each us more about building sustainable cities on Earth.

https://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-persephone/

[grumbler]

Thought Tim would be all over this!

Scientists Building 'Space Ark' to Save Humanity

Scientists are developing an interstellar Noah's Ark - a self-sustaining spaceship that can carry humans on a one-way mission to find a new world to inhabit in the event of a global catastrophe.

Researchers around the UK are working with colleagues from the US, Italy and the Netherlands on Project Persephone, investigating new bio-technologies that could one day help to create a self-sustaining spacecraft to carry people beyond our solar system.

The spaceship would incorporate into its structure organic matter such as algae and artificial soil, using the Sun's energy to produce biofuel and a sustainable source of food, 'The Times' reported.

It would need to keep a few thousand people alive for generations on a one-way mission to find a new world to inhabit, researchers said.

According to the project website, scientists are "considering the application of living technologies such as protocells, programmable smart chemistry, in the context of habitable starship architecture that can respond and evolve according to the needs of its inhabitants."

Rachel Armstrong, a senior architecture and design lecturer at the University of Greenwich, is leading the project, which includes 13 designers, six of whom are based in the UK.

Armstrong's research focuses on bio-engineering, developing artificial soil and droplets of water that can be programmed to carry key elements.

"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation. We need nature to survive, so how do we take nature with us?" said Steve Fuller, the team's sociologist, based at the University of Warwick.

Researchers hope the project's principal use will be to  each us more about building sustainable cities on Earth.

https://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-persephone/

This is, what, the second or third organization founded to do exactly the same thing?  I love how scientists can get all scismatic over something so hypothetical.

I also love that title: "Scientists Building 'Space Ark' to Save Humanity."  They are "building" a space ark to the exact same extent that CdM is building a bondage cell in his mom's basement.

[Norgy]

Without schisma, how would we know what to be for and against? 

[The Brain]

Alice Cooper sang about a spark in the dark.

[Brazen]

What they actually seem to be reporting is space dirt.

[grumbler]

Without schisma, how would we know what to be for and against? 

"We put green and purple in great barrel, equal to numbers of Drazi. Then we reach in, we take. Where there was one Drazi people, now there are two. The two fight until there are one."

[Caliga]

Alice Cooper sang about a spark in the dark.

Rainbow in the Dark is better.  DIO

[The Brain]

Alice Cooper sang about a spark in the dark.

Rainbow in the Dark is better.  DIO

Dio's dead, baby. Dio's dead.

[mongers]

Damn, you people fail.

Personally I think these scientists are BArking up the wrong tree.

[Capetan Mihali]

"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation.

Why, precisely?  So we can do it all over again on another planet?

[Norgy]

"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation.

Why, precisely?  So we can do it all over again on another planet?

I've been wondering the same. The way humanity cocks up, there's no reason to spread the disease further.

[Valmy]

"If the Earth ends up a no-go zone for human beings due to climate change or nuclear or biological warfare, we have to preserve human civilisation.

Why, precisely?  So we can do it all over again on another planet?

Yeah let's leave before we fuck up the Earth, give the Earth a fighting chance

[Ed Anger]

I'd like to place tim on a suicide mission against the Sun.

[PDH]

I'd like to place tim on a suicide mission against the Sun.

Odd, I was about the post the same thing.

[mongers]

I'd like to place tim on a suicide mission against the Sun.

Odd, I was about the post the same thing.

Can we just persuade him to borrow a suspiciously 'neat' looking spaceship?