Doomsday vault under construction

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It sounds like a 1950s science fiction movie plot, but five Nordic nations say they are building a doomsday seed vault in an Arctic mountain.

The vault, being built near Svalbard, Norway, on a Barents Sea island, is designed to ensure the long-term survival of the Earth's food crops should a major catastrophe befall the planet, Global Crop Diversity Trust said in a release.

Three feet of reinforced concrete will fortify the seed repository of last resort, with Arctic permafrost keeping samples frozen for 100 years, even if electricity fails, officials said. The samples -- stored in watertight foil packages -- will be protected by massive security doors, guards, motion detectors and even the ubiquitous presence of polar bears.

The $3 million vault will have a capacity of 3 million seed samples -- replicates of the world's most critical crop collections, now scattered among some 1,400 gene banks on every continent except Antarctica. Samples will remain viable for hundreds of years -- some varieties for thousands of years -- and will only be released in the event all other seed sources have been destroyed or exhausted
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Someone seems to be worried???

They had a report on NPR about these today. Some of these seed vaults have been sealed for the past 22 years.

65 million years from now the cockroaches may want to try their own jurassic park

We don't want to risk mankind's future on the possibility of tainted genes.

If there's a nuclear war, or asteroid or Transformer invasion. It will be Bush and all of his corrupt buddies who will be tucked away in some nuclear shelter somewhere, and expected to carry on the human race. :puke:

Its a good thing...

and a possible rise in sea level.

Over here we're listening to the experts behind the pulpits, who have God's to-do list.