Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I'm still trying to figure out where Noah fits into this...
In the sense that Noah rescued a sampling of all earthly creatures. Norway is doing a simliar thing, but with seeds. Not an exact comparison, but near enough. Think - in place of 'everything that creepeth upon the earth' (Noah's haul) - all known varieties of the world's crops. For flood, insert global catastrophe. Brent >Martin Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, no one's had >this idea before now? > >Brent Wodehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5094450.stm > >Work begins on Arctic seed vault > >Norway is starting construction on a "doomsday vault" in the Arctic which >is designed to house all known varieties of the world's crops. > >Dug into a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, it is hoped the >project will safeguard crop diversity in the event of a global >catastrophe. > >More than 100 countries have backed the vault, which will store seeds, >packaged in foil, at sub-zero temperatures. > >Prime Ministers from five nations helped lay the cornerstone on Monday. > >Premiers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland attended the >ceremony near the town of Longyearbyen, in Norway's remote Svalbard >Islands, roughly 1,000 km (620 miles) from the North Pole. > >Secure facility > >Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told the Norwegian news agency >NTB: "The vault is of international importance. It will be the only one of >its kind; all the other gene banks are of a commercial nature." > >Fenced in and guarded, with steel airlock doors, motion detectors and >polar bears roaming outside - the concrete facility will, its backers say, >be the most secure building of its type in the world. > >Norway's Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen has called the vault a >"Noah's Ark on Svalbard." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Zo.u8A/lOaOAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
