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Doomsday Seed Vault Design Unveiled
in2mind writes "The BBC News is reporting on the completion of a design for a 'doomsday' vault ... that will house seeds. All known varieties of food crops will be represented in the structure, which will be constructed by the Norwegian government. The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes by building into the side of a mountain. On a remote island. Near the North pole. The Svalbard International Seed Vault will house the seed samples at a preservative -18C (0F), and could be used by post-apocalyptic people to feed a hungry planet."
Maybe they intend to replenish the stale seeds every 3-4 years. So if there was to be an apocalypse (main article link) the apocalypse survivors would have to stage an X Prize competition to pay teams of people to reach the stored seeds (without food) in time to save us all. But like you say, they'll be so hungry when they get to the seeds they would start eating them. I guess we're doomed then. Maybe somebody should make a movie about this, ending with a grand sex party at the end, our team of dedicated people wallowing around in the seeds of life they were supposed to save.
However, why wait for the apocalypse or the movie? We could start the party right now using See Through Walls in our own living room privacy > see link at the top of the window. I was of course holding the invention back a while in hopes of getting some bucks, but since I found out the idea had been leaked by the invention submission company to the U.S. military I decided to go ahead and tell everyone how to build it. Provided of course you have the money. Here's a copy of the original post (Reader's Digest January 29 2007) if you want to jump on it direct > It won't be exactly cheap with all the LCD display screens for the inside wall.
Industrial Age 2 + How-to Stop Malignant Cancers.
This sounds a little hysterical and typical of the Norwegian government's PC nonsense. Like the time their national pension fund manager was sanctioned for pulling all investments out of Norwegian defense related firms because he wanted to make a political statement.