Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:23 am Post subject: Re: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Atop the World
Norway's largest-ever recorded earthquake hit Svalbard earlier this morning, registering 6.2 magnitude, just a week before the formal opening of the seed vault. Interesting...
Quote:
OSLO (Reuters) - An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude -- the biggest in Norwegian history -- jolted the thinly populated Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic on Wednesday night, the Norsar seismic research institute said on Thursday.
No one was hurt by the quake and no damage has been reported in the islands, about 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole, reports said.
"This is the biggest earthquake on Norwegian territory in history," the institute said in a statement, adding that the quake occurred at sea, about 10 km (6 miles) below the surface.
Anne-Karin Bekken, one of roughly 2,000 residents of the archipelago's main town Longyearbyen, said she and her boyfriend were jolted awake by the earthquake.
"We woke up and everything was shaking. It was a bit scary," she told Reuters over the telephone.
"Before I realized what it was, it was over. I thought it was the blizzard blowing the house into pieces," said Bekken, a consultant at the local coal mine.
Norsar said Svalbard registered several aftershocks, and predicted there would be more.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and other leaders will be in Svalbard next week for the official opening of a seed vault which will store frozen crop seeds from around the world in case crops are wiped out by a future disaster.
I seriously doubt that any damage was done to the vault, considering its bunker-like construction, but this is still weird news. _________________ "It's called the American Dream because you'd have to be asleep to believe it."
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: Re: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Atop the World
So who has access to those seeds ? Just any old schmoe can walk up and restart agriculture after an oops at a laboratory wipes out all existing plant life ? I farking doubt it .
Glad to see the usual suspects have set themselves or their descendants up nicely. For absolute control of the food supply and the peons and their children will reamin peons. I hope a rogue sub crew raids the farking place and takes it all.
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject: Re: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Atop the World
Chesire wrote:
So who has access to those seeds ? Just any old schmoe can walk up and restart agriculture after an oops at a laboratory wipes out all existing plant life ? I farking doubt it .
Glad to see the usual suspects have set themselves or their descendants up nicely. For absolute control of the food supply and the peons and their children will reamin peons. I hope a rogue sub crew raids the farking place and takes it all.
The storage is for the purpose of creating earth like enviornments on other planets. Much of this DNA material will be destroyed in the coming years due to natural disasters, weather changes and overall degradation of the planet. _________________ Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destory health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality.
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Atop the World
mmasters wrote:
Chesire wrote:
So who has access to those seeds ? Just any old schmoe can walk up and restart agriculture after an oops at a laboratory wipes out all existing plant life ? I farking doubt it .
Glad to see the usual suspects have set themselves or their descendants up nicely. For absolute control of the food supply and the peons and their children will reamin peons. I hope a rogue sub crew raids the farking place and takes it all.
The storage is for the purpose of creating earth like enviornments on other planets. Much of this DNA material will be destroyed in the coming years due to natural disasters, weather changes and overall degradation of the planet.
Best laugh I have had all day . The fact that actually believe would lead to me to reccomend that you cut down on your kool aid consumption.
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: Re: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Atop the World
Seed Vault "opens" today:
Arctic “doomsday vault” for seeds opens — except GMOs
26 Feb 2008, filed by Alister Doyle
Reuters: A “doomsday vault” for the world’s seeds opened in a mountainside on a Norwegian Arctic island on Tuesday but you won’t find seeds of genetically engineered crops protected in the cavern.
Why not?
The short answer is that Norway bans the import of biotech crops, or GMOs, so the vault near Longyearbyen, about 1,000 km from the North Pole, can store only natural varieties of the world’s seeds. …
GMOs were once famously described by Greenpeace as “Frankenfoods”, …
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