A new vastly improved Noah’s Ark is being planed in the International Lunar Exploration Working Group as we speak, as searches for the Old One have all turned out empty.

The group wants to build the Ark under the surface of the Moon, with samples of DNA, embryos and information stored in several languages that will be activated in the case of a catastrophic event on Earth. It will on activation send the information to special receivers on Earth so possible survivors could rebuild the biological world to its former glory.

It might sound to you like the kind of idea that would give most people a free stay at the nearest mental institution, but it nonetheless looks like a serious suggestion. In addition to the obvious practical problems, several questions come to mind:

• How will the database know when something bad has happened?
• Are they going to collaborate with Wikipedia?
• What is the name of the leader of this project?
• Can we pay to have an animal removed from the list? I’d pay good money to have no spiders around.