Ark I is a self-sustaining space colony built to ensure humanity could survive disasters that make Earth uninhabitable such as nanoweapon disasters or particle accelerator mishaps. We are moving towards a world with less and less privacy. Your credit card reports and bank records are available to almost everyone, your phone calls are tapped, cameras are being placed everywhere, etc. This will only get worse when more powerful weapons are available to the individual. In the future, if you wanted a lot of privacy, you couldn't live with billions of people whose lives depended on what you did. So instead you could live on a small spaceship with a couple thousand people who trusted each other. Visit http://lifeboat.com/ex/ark_i to learn more.