Doomsday vault to be built near North Pole
The construction design for a $5 million Doomsday vault funded by the Norweigan government has been unveiled by the Global Crop Diversity Trust to ensure the “conservation of crop diversity in perpetuity”.
Built 120m into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole, the Svalbard International Seed Vault on the Svalbard islands will open in 2008 and house 3 million seed samples. Carefully chosen in a location safe from even the worst anticipated rises in sea level, it will also safeguard against nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change.
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on February 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Honestly, it’s such a shame this this sort of thing is even thought neccessary
Says alot about the current state of the human race I’d have though
on February 13th, 2007 at 2:34 am
Wierd I was thinking of something similar in a random day dream the other day… then I went off on a terraforming mars tangent!
Attitudes to recycling and waste etc. are just terrible. I hate the “Sure what does it matter if i do anything, no one else is” idiots!