Breaking News! You need to protect yourself against the world ending solar flare, brought about by the global illuminati from their base in antarctica, who are being mind controlled by the lizard people!
http://www.inquisitr.com/3450981/global-elite-prepare-for-imminent-solar-storm-apocalypse-thousands-flee-to-underground-antarctica-bases-according-to-conspiracy-theorists-video/
Note to conspiracy theorists:
The most dangerous place on earth to be during a solar flare is anywhere near the poles.
Obviously the lizard people are smarter than that!
Clearly their plan is to cook and eat the Illuminati by using solar flares, yum!
Side note, best way to cook a potato is to wrap it in tinfoil.
Ok so let's assume a Carrington Event, or Lizard People tampering with our genome or insert other world ending phenomenon is actually something we wanted to protect against.
In all honesty our greatest immediate existential threat is going to come from someone deciding to edit the flu or the common cold into something much worse because,
We're all heathens and the god of living love and light who loves all of humanity equally, told him that it's time to hit the reset button on creation.
We're not going to be able to reason with people like that.
Fortunately, most of them will win darwin awards trying.
Yet there are enough people who think that way, and unfortunately they appear to be increasing in number at an alarming rate. The USA has a choice between two isolationist xenophobes for president and that's only going to make this situation worse. Odds are we have about 10 years before this becomes a regular threat and frankly that isn't very long.
So how could we "reboot our entire species" or even just repair the damage if needed?
First of all, we would need a "seedbank". A place to store our genetic information, a sort of genetic Noah's Ark.
Fortunately evolution only works because life has these restore from backup tools built in already.
We just need to take advantage of that. However, storing stem cells forever is not a viable solution. There is just too much that could go horribly, horribly wrong (note to all males, that man is now the worlds most prolific father).
So what if you wanted to store your entire genome instead of stem cells or zygotes?
We can work out the restore process later, but I have a feeling the answer will be found with something like CRISPR, which oddly enough is where we're going to be seeing these threats coming from as well.
The fact is, I believe we could restore from a backup, but first we need to perform a backup.
This isn't scifi, it's here right now and it looks like this...
These guys have a "home version", by the way.
This begs the question, Exactly how big is your genome?
It's only 1.5GB, for your entire genome and it could be derived in a weekend for a couple thousand dollars.
This means that you could store yourself, and your favorite data in the free space on your phone right now.
But what if you wanted to backup more than just yourself?
This is where it gets really interesting.
What if I told you, that the differences between you and anyone else on earth would fit on a floppy disk?
Wait, you're old enough to remember those, right?
Of course those are only the deltas from a base human genome, but once you have a base genome it's just not very much space. By comparison, the bible is about 5MB and I know people who have that book memorized!
At 1.4MB this means you could easily carry your entire family around with you on a thumb drive.
Heck that tiny and you could embed a persons' entire unique genetic code each time you take a picture of them using steganography.
However your phone and even your thumb drive would be destroyed in a Carrington Event. So how would you protect against that?
Furthermore, how would you protect against the lizard people, or anyone for that matter tampering with your genome after the fact?
Ever consider the blockchain???
How much space would you take up on the blockchain?
You'd take up the same amount of space you do now, about 1.4MB.
Yet you would be globally distributed and there would be enough redundancy that no amount of damage could really "delete you".
Also there would be a cryptographic "tamper proof seal" on your genome, which would prevent tampering with this data while at rest.
So now you know my plan.
Start by uploading our genome to a blockchain, and then as it becomes possible, we store our connectome there as well.
This isn't science fiction, but it isn't science fact yet. It's just science now.
We can build a seedbank for humanity and we can do it within a generation.
On the other hand...
We may ...
well be ...
doomed...
Either way, I think that this is where I will be directing my energies in the long term.
I'm going to start a project here shortly, with the very serious goal of providing a sort of immune system to humanity against existential threats. I really hope you'll join me and I'll announce it here when I get the details of the project online.
I know some people are going to say that I'm crazy or that this is the sign of a god complex, or at least a messiah complex.
I have no answer for that, I just know that this feels right to me.
A special shout out goes to my wife who keeps stressing to me that we are SO much more than our genetics, which is truth, our brain has a capacity in the zettabyte range.
Happy Anniversary Sweety!
Another shoutout goes to 
Remember...
Jesus saves!
You should too, so make a backup!
