The grandly-named Alliance to Rescue Civilization is dedicated to creating continuously-staffed facilities on the Moon and other off-planet locations, in an effort to get all of humanity’s eggs out of one basket. The facilities would preserve backups of scientific and cultural achievements, and of “the species important to our civilization.” So I guess cows are a go, but mosquitoes not so much.

Their site is a little sketchy on hard details, but it’s a nicely Golden Age-SF notion.

Link (via The Presurfer)