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Saturday, January 14

Doomsday vault

WITHIN a large concrete room, hewn out of a mountain on a freezing-cold island just 1000 kilometres from the North Pole, could lie the future of humanity.

The room is a "doomsday vault" designed to hold around 2 million seeds, representing all known varieties of the world's crops. It is being built to safeguard the world's food supply against nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes and the ensuing collapse of electricity supplies. "If the worst came to the worst, this would allow the world to reconstruct agriculture on this planet," says Cary Fowler, director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, an independent international organisation promoting the project.

[ What kinda seeds were they smoking... ] Imagine nuclear tomatos, Fuck yes. Can you imagine, something meaty yet juciy like a tomato. Best of a fruit and a meat. Plus it would be red meat, so you get the iron you need.

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