It's no secret that I like the Pellegrino sodas in pretty much any flavour, although tuna Fico da India is a bit sickly-sweet. Pompelmo might be my favourite.

If you're talking "escape arks", realistically, you're talking Orion. The most difficult part of building such things is the thousands of atom bombs required. Conveniently(?), those are already in existence — it's just a matter of getting control of them…