Doomsday Seed Vault

[ronaldrwl]

"OSLO, Norway – Two years after receiving its first deposits, a doomsday seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault's operators announced Thursday."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/...doomsday_vault

[Troublco]

I saw a piece on this yesterday. Their idea of Doomsday seems to be if there's some sort of disaster that wipes out the plant species. I'm wondering what everyone's gonna REALLY do if that happens, 'cause I don't think we'll have time to wait for everything to grow.......

[hobowh]

There is that

[DD977GM2]

Im kinda thinking if something does happen and causes a so called doomsday, I am not overly optimistic the planet will have anything that survives besides bacteria etc.

[hobowh]

even if it does, whose going to be left to plant the seeds, and how will they get there

[GunTroll]

I eat meat! I'm currently stocking ammo of all calibers. Can't say I'm the most diverse repository but I'm getting there!

[jake]

Im kinda thinking if something does happen and causes a so called doomsday, I am not overly optimistic the planet will have anything that survives besides bacteria etc.

Well it's the press who have labeled it the doomsday vault, I think. If you read the article, it's actually called the Global Seed Vault. And I didn't realise that it's actually a backup to the 1400 other seed vaults around the world.