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'Noah's Ark': Russia to Build World's First DNA Databank of All Living Things
Friday, December 26, 2014 15:49
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Not quite the Biblical Noah’s Ark, but possibly the next best thing. Moscow State University has secured Russia’s largest-ever scientific grant to collect the DNA of every living and extinct creature for the world’s first database of its kind.
“I call the project ‘Noah’s Ark.’ It will involve the creation of a depository – a databank for the storing of every living thing on Earth, including not only living, but disappearing and extinct organisms. This is the challenge we have set for ourselves,” MSU rector Viktor Sadivnichy told journalists.
The gigantic ‘ark’, set to be completed by 2018, will be 430 sq km in size, built at one of the university’s central campuses …. http://rt.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/12/noahs-ark-russia-to-build-worlds-first.html
Silly Russians!
The U.S. Gov just wants the DNA of ALL its people.
Think of all the time and space that’ll save them!