'Doomsday vault' to resist global warming effects

[deadparrot]

OSLO (AFP) - An Arctic "doomsday vault" aimed at providing mankind with food in case of a global catastrophe will be designed to sustain the effects of climate change, the project's builders said as they unveiled the architectural plans.

The top-security repository, carved into the permafrost of a mountain in the remote Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole, will preserve some three million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet's crops.

The hope is that the vault will make it possible to re-establish crops obliterated by major disasters.

"We have taken into consideration the (outside) temperature rising and have located the facility so far inside the rock that it will be in permafrost and won't be affected" by the outside temperature, Magnus Bredeli Tveiten, project manager at Norway's Directorate of Public Construction and Property, told AFP.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/norwayenvironmentfood

[SpiralHawk]

1. Don't forget the frozen pizza

don't want to live in no steenkin post-republicono-lyptic planet without frozen pizza.

[watrwefitinfor]

2. Or maybe we could put samples of all the crops on a robotic space ship

and shoot them into outer space with a human caretaker.
We could call the ship "HAL".

Wonder what Bruce Dern is doing these days.

Wat

[bananas]

3. That's the second post today referring to Bruce Dern

must be in the collective subconscious or something.

[watrwefitinfor]

4. Collective Subconscious?

You might be on to something. I searched on Google News, and Dern has a new book out; also a new movie.

I have always loved that man. I remember when he played the bad guy on so many old tv westerns. Gunsmoke - He was a terrific bad guy, and seems like he did a different bad guy every season. Then he was great on an episode of "Along Came Bronson." Anybody else remember that one? What a great show. Only lasted one season. "Silent Running" was his breakthrough movie, I think. Long before "Coming Home" with Jane Fonda and Jon Voight.

Didn't mean to hi-jack this thread. It is an interesting notion, a seed bank. What makes them think the permafrost will remain perma-nent?

Wat

[Celefin]

5. Don't forget the spare water chip in that vault!

... or some poor fellow will have to go out into the
wasteland searching for one of the damn things at some
point in the future.

[bmbmd]

6. Paullie Shore and Bill Baldwin

to be the caretakers.

[bikebloke]

7. I envision a scifi book or movie

Survivors trek is search of the lost vault to rebuild a destroyed world. Battlecart Galactica. But then how will the survivors enter the vault?

[RoseMead]

8. "Mr. President, we cannot allow

a mine shaft gap!" :7

[snooper2]

9. I think this is a great idea..

note, I just watched "Idiocracy" last night :)