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"Doomsday" Food Vault Being Prepared Amid World Catastrophies

by steve468 | September 24, 2007 at 01:13 pm

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Sept 20 (Reuters) - A vault in a mountainside cavern on Spitsbergen island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole is being prepared to store the world's crop seeds in case of disaster.

The Survival Vault was originally designed to avert world famine.

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Kaitlin

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at 14:22 on September 24th, 2007

steve468, thanks for sharing this. Can you flesh it out a little? Maybe some detail on why this interested you, and why this particular location is being chosen...who chose it...etc. If you know this info, we'd like to know, too!

gryphon

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at 14:33 on September 24th, 2007

Excellent! Now if there is a cataclysmic event, the 5 people in the area of this vault will be safe!

Christopher Byrne

at 06:18 on September 25th, 2007

Actually this is old news, reported on months ago on one of the broadcast network's news magazines. I cannot recall which one, but I do remember the story. I sometimes wonder why the wire services recycle old news. Perhaps to keep in in the public eye?

Nonetheless, thanks for highlighting it.

Christopher Byrne

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at 06:20 on September 25th, 2007

Good to keep information like this in people's minds...

steve468

at 07:23 on September 25th, 2007

Christopher,

Actually this is an updated news story posted on Sept 20th. This article informs the public that the vault is up and running. In addition new photographs have been presented of the vault site. Thanks for your comments.

Steve