Noah's Cosmic Ark: Preserving DNA on the Moon (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - The complexity of life took \  billions of years to push and stretch and reshape the biological niche that \  is Earth. It would seem prudent  if one had the means  to save some portion \  of the blueprints of this majesty, so that the process would not have to start \  over from scratch in the event of a global cataclysm.