How to save your data if world comes to an end in 2012?

Try searching for 2012 on Google and you will get approximately 232,000,000 hits. So what is 2012? and what is all the hype about?

The 2012 Doomsday Prediction is a present-day cultural tradition proposing that cataclysmic and apocalyptic events will occur in the year 2012. You can read more about 2012 Doomsday Prediction on Wikipedia.

Though I don’t really buy the idea. And I am in no way suggesting that world will come to an end in 2012. But I do think world will end some day and this make us wonder -

What will happen with all the earth’s data?? Are we backing up our data somewhere outside earth??

I think we as earth’s intelligent inhibitors should be responsible for saving all the intelligent data (information) that we have collected so far. This will save a lot of work for our future generations to come (i.e. if some of us are lucky enough to survive).

Saving data at a remote location outside earth will be important to make sure that our future generations doesn’t have to start from ground zero.

There is a lot of important data we have collected so far about earth’s evolution, about all the medical advances etc. and this needs to be saved. And don’t forget a lot of this data is analyzed in a number of BLOG posts, written by and ranging from NASA’s scientists, world’s renowned astrologers and doctors etc.

So what really are our options?

Backup data on Moon

Well, there is some good news here. TransOrbital of La Jolla, California is taking this and other proposals for marrying high-tech and the Earth’s only natural satellite seriously. The company is getting ready to send a commercial mission to the moon and intends to send servers, data, handheld computers, and digital cameras along for the ride.

We’re the only company licensed to send a commercial mission right now," says Dennis Laurie, TransOrbital president and CEO. "We’re shooting for the first quarter of 2004." On December 20 of 2002, the company launched a rocket to test telemetry, positioning, and other concerns in preparation for the upcoming mission. TransOrbital had to obtain approval from the US State Department and the military to gain its license, and has also been consulting with officials at NASA. The licensing process took two and a half years, according to Laurie, and involved getting a specific license to take pictures from space.

Read more about TransOrbital.

Backup data on Mars

Though this will be a perfect setup. Unfortunately there is nothing available right now. But I am pretty sure one of the Backup and Recovery companies will read this article and will probably start working towards this … hopefully :)

Backup data on a man made satellite

This is another good option but with a bit of risk involved as the satellite will still be in close proximity to earth. And in the event of some magnetic changes or due to impact, we might lost the satellite or the data or both.

Backup data in the ionosphere above earth

If we are able to save data in electrons this is going to be a good option. Read more about Ionosphere here on Wikipedia.

Though in this day and age we are able to save data in living cells. I will not suggest this as this might be of no use if the cells are destroyed by some catastrophic event either natural or man made. Well, with that comment I will conclude this article. If you think you have a better idea then please leave your thoughts in the comments section below.

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