Arch Mission Foundation’s Nova Spivack: “Humanity's billion-year backup”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Arch Mission Foundation’s Nova Spivack: “Humanity's billion-year backup”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:38:12
• Published: 2019-04-12 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Nova Spivack, founder of the Arch Mission Foundation, to talk about the lunar library (3:10), how is started in 2015 (6:40), doing a test mission with Elon Musk (7:55), packing 30m pages of data into a CD (9:25), safekeeping the keys to civilisation (13:10), storing special data in “vaults” (15:30), why he’s doing it (17:45), looking for billionaire benefactors (20:10), settling the moon (23:25), getting funding from the Charney family (25:20), what happens if the landing is successful (26:30), the fears driving the project (28:20), private enterprise in space (30:00), keeping the project private (31:05), and creating a permanent record for an impermanent time (36:30).

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