It’s the end of the world as we know it and Norway feels fine
Posted March 31st, 2008 under apocolypse, fun stuff, Norway will save usk… the Norwegian government, assuming all life is going to hell, has built this huge tunnel on a small island in the Arctic Circle where they are storing hundreds of thousands of seeds. Now, there are several seed storage places all over the world, but these are active places where they take seeds out, plant them and replace them with the seeds from the plantings. That’s not the case with the Skavland Vault. If you donate seeds, you can request to have them returned, but otherwise, they stay where they are buried in the permafrost until the Apocalypse. The working theory here is that when it all hits the fan and society topples, someone will make their way up to the Arctic Circle, get into this deep vault and then haul the seeds to much warmer climates to plant.
I thought I was cynical.
The hope of mankind is Skavland.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Are they going to store DNA too, so they can clone all the animals after the Apocalypse?
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Didn’t you hear? Cloning is wrong. But, to answer your question, nope, they only plan on saving plants. So, I guess I need to update my assessment of their plan when the apocolypse hits.
Huge bad thing happens.
Some small group of survivors make their way up to the arctic.
Dig out the door to this place.
Somehow open it up. I’m assuming there will be no power.
Gather all the seeds into their large row boat.
Sail down to some land that was not ravaged by the apocolypse. I’m guessing Nova Scotia.
Plant the seeds for the coming season.
Die cuz there’s no way in hell the plants are going to grow quickly enough to help them.
In 20 million years, plants evolve to a sentient form and spend all their time wondering what killed off the honey bee.