Doomsday Vault

February 26, 2008

There have been all kinds of major catastrophic events in the history of our planet. The last such major disruption that wiped out 90% of life was the Toba supervolcano eruption. It started us on our last ice age that lasted nearly 60,000 years. With the coming of 2012, we’re now prepared with the opening of the Doomsday vault!

Hollowed out of a sandstone mountainside on a remote Norwegian island, a newly constructed planetary depository for seeds from key agricultural crops – dubbed the doomsday vault – is receiving its first samples this morning. So, bring on December 21, 2012!

Start the doomsday clock!

The underground, bombproof shelter, financed by the Norwegian government and located in the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic Ocean, is designed to safeguard the genetic diversity of the plants backing the world’s food supply, in case political instability, nuclear war or climatic upheaval over the centuries wipes out key seed varieties from their countries of origin.

Construction of the vault, whose entrance of massive concrete slabs protrudes from a mountainside on Spitsbergen and is adorned with a collection of light-reflecting mirrors, was prompted by worries that many collections are vulnerable, even without a planetary Armageddon.

Seeds sent for storage are wrapped in laminated, aluminum-foil envelopes. The vault is deep in permafrost where temperatures are typically -4 degrees to -6 degrees year-round. Special refrigeration equipment will bring the temperatures down to about -20, a level that keeps some seeds viable for centuries, others for decades.

So, now that we have the SEEDS protected deep inside the vault, what about we PEOPLE out here where the coronal mass ejections will lambast us? What about us? What’s the plans for the potential Planet X and other planetary warnings we’ve being given regarding what might be “out there” that’s not good for us.

How do we HUMANOIDS prepare?