• Question: If all human life were to be destroyed, then would it be possible to preserve DNA from humans before this event to resume life afterwards.

    Asked by anon-181168 on 18 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Haragan

      Alex Haragan answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      That depends on the nature of the extinction event.
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      However one could preserve human DNA easily enough – in a vault, in a capsule buried under the sea or shot into space. Even sent to the moon or Mars.
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      But presently we don’t have the technology to make a human from DNA alone – and we certainly can’t create an automated process to begin this in the event of our extinction.
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      If an advanced alien species or another intelligent life-form from this planet ever found our genetic material – then maybe they could bring back that human (s) – but would they want to?
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      If we are wiped out anytime soon – that will be that for humans.

    • Photo: Hannah Farley

      Hannah Farley answered on 19 Jun 2018:

      In theory yes, but I’m not sure who would bring us back.

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