Data storage on the moon!

[Dakes]

I just read this over at HardOCP:
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<BR><!-- BBCode Start --><I>To The Moon, Alice!
<BR>No, this isn’t a Honeymooners rerun, this is an article about data storage on the moon. Ummm, whatever.
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<BR>Locate backup data on the moon? Now that sounds like a rock-solid business model. However strange the idea may sound, TransOrbital of La Jolla, California is taking it 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.
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<BR>Can you IMAGINE the poor IT ******* that gets the call “dude, the system is down, you gotta go reboot the server”. Heh</I><!-- BBCode End --> <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif">
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<BR>The link to the actual article is <!-- BBCode u2 Start --><A HREF="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1200791,00.asp" TARGET="_blank">here</A><!-- BBCode u2 End -->. I haven´t read through it myself, but what do you guys think? I say leave the moon alone. We´ve mucked earth up enough as it is, what with all the pollution going on and so forth <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_evil.gif"> I know, I know, the moon is just a rock surrounded by vacuum, but still, why not leave it be.

[Cameron_Losco]

Sounds like a stupid and expensive idea to me. I can't think of any advantages to storing your data on the moon. As you said, leave the moon alone!

[gareth007]

well on the bright side, at least ur backups and data are safe and wont get stolen (except from little green men)