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- cindylauper, on 11/03/2007, -3/+25I need to get one of those for my porn...cause you can never be too careful
- Napoleone, on 10/31/2007, -2/+21Good for the seeds.
- LetsGoHokies, on 11/02/2007, -4/+17They better have some weed in there
- ZenFountain, on 10/31/2007, -0/+11Sounds kinda like Asimov's Foundation. They should backup Wikipedia and the Library of Congress there too so when humanity does extinguish itself, 6000 years of written language doesn't go with it.
- pwallroth, on 10/31/2007, -1/+11In case of nuclear explosion, break glass.
- Christbait, on 10/31/2007, -0/+9Creepy... instantly reminded me of Half Life 2; looks like a place Gordon Freeman would visit in his adventures and the first pic looks like a combine installation.
Uhh.. *puts down Orange Box and steps outside for a smoke* - Napoleone, on 10/31/2007, -2/+9You're the ray of sunshine that's going to grow those seeds when the rest of us are dead.
On a serious note, thanks for the heads-up. I might invite you to my bunker. - kweeky, on 11/03/2007, -4/+9Just don't let the pidgeons in.
- drtyfrnk, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5Any weed seeds in there?
Can't hurt right? - ydt89, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5well this is comforting! you know something is wrong when safes are being built to aide with the end of the civilization..
- Phocion55, on 10/31/2007, -3/+8Don't worry. According to the thousands of articles on Digg, global warming will kill us all in 2010.
- DeviantDragon, on 10/31/2007, -1/+6Exaggerate much?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis - corduroyblack, on 11/03/2007, -2/+6There's a tremendous problem with this type of planning. If in fact the world were rendered uninhabitable for plant life, it would be literally impossible to foster new growth from these seeds. There is no possible way that they can store enough different genetic strains to foster the biodiversity needed to "re-plant the planet" or so to speak. Nice idea, but it's just money down the drain. Or in this case, a big hole in Norway.
It is also dishonest to claim, as the article does, that "75% of plant bio-diversity has been lost" in the last century. There is no way to possibly calculate the sum total of Earth's biodiversity. Where does the 75% come from? What about new strains that have not been discovered? Ask an plant geneticist or breeder and they'll tell you that they can create 10 new strains from a single strain in a single growing season. I understand that bad things are happening, but this kind of apocalyptic preparation is about as useful as "Duck and cover!" - MalDON, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4We might need for for the WW3 Bush is pushing us towards.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/31/2007, -2/+6"As of October 19, 2006, the impact probability for April 13, 2036, is estimated at 1 in 45,000."
Sorry, you fail. - hawkspur, on 10/31/2007, -1/+5Do you actually know exactly how difficult it is to make a nuclear weapon? Despite what the media would have you believe, it's hard as hell. Even an extremely large terrorist cell is only capable of making a "dirty" bomb at most, let alone a full fledged world-ending arsenal.
- SonicRush, on 10/31/2007, -3/+7Well... somebody has to win the lottery right?
- DeviantDragon, on 11/03/2007, -5/+8Doesn't look like it could hold this: http://tinyurl.com/35em6n
- thebellmaster1x, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Is it possible to TrueCrypt a bunker?
- mablco, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3If george bush has anything to say about it its gonna be filled with coca seeds
- thebellmaster1x, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Uh, the stated reason for this project is, in fact, to recover from the global extinctions that would occur due to some catastrophe. That sounds EXACTLY like what you're saying.
- Herald42, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Time to call Bruce Willis and start playing some Aerosmith.
- ltchimpo, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3God, finally, someone with seeds. Now I can finish my Northern.Exposure.Season.1.2.3.dvdrip.[POP].torrent
- Flame15, on 10/31/2007, -1/+4Those chances are actually pretty good (for the asteroid) considering the vastness of space and the relative smallness of Earth. But hopefully we'll have something to prevent anything hitting the planet by that time.
- Bamborzled, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Do mommy and daddy know YOU'RE up this late?
*zing!* (...) - GothAlice, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2See the recent article about the coherent positron beam.
- capiCrimm, on 10/31/2007, -3/+5This is disappointing. I was hoping for Dr. Strangelove, and instead I get Titan A.E.
- GhostToon, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Anyone else think looks like it could be a level in Half-Life 2?
- ckSubs, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2I hope they have Panserbjørne guarding the vault...
- Toshibi, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Does the nurse know you broke into her work station?
- EmperorAwesome, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2That does raise an interesting question. Who's in charge of deciding what species are deemed "worthy" to be stored?
- moskaudancer, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2You too, eh?
- ltchimpo, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2We're leaving it for the aliens.
- dumpyhumpy, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Don't forget the Ice 9
- D3koy, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2My thoughts exactly....I was actually mentioning to someone today how much like Foundation Wikipedia was...
- crashflow, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1In a case of cruel, cruel irony, the planet was subsequently hit by a large asteroid, causing massive extinction. Future squid scientists will locate the impact crater linked to the ELE in a northern location, next to a violently damaged open metal box with the undecipherable inscription: "Svalbard Global Seed Vault"
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1This thing is going to, at the very least, pass the Earth at a distance less than that of a flight from California to Australia in 2029. That is no exaggeration.
- AnthonyA7, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Wow, are you some kind of a four-legged animal?
- jstone, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Meh. 880Mt isn't that much. The Tambora eruption was equivalent to 1000Mt, and that caused the 'Year Without a Summer.' The human race survived that in the 1800's.
You want a real catastrophe? A yellowstone eruption. That could be in the range of hundreds of thousands of megatons. - inactive, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1The impact of this asteroid will generate a super-heated cloud of steam that will circle the Earth for many months, at least. Acid rain is a likely consequence for industrial nations that pollute their skies.
- FriskDown, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Terrorists wouldn't need a "full fledged world-ending arsenal." The process just needs to be started, and the other nuclear powers will jump in. In fact, they don't even NEED to have the nuclear weapon (frankly, they don't need to start the process either - there's enough war mongering going on). We can get World War 3 started without proof. It worked with Iraq - with all of those weapons of mass destruction that I never saw.
- warriorscot, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1They are predicting that it will not only serve to be useful in the case of a disaster but for replacing local crops allowed to die, in allot of the third world better more hardy crops are being replaced for western counterparts that are better to sell but poor foodstuffs for them and not as easy to grow, so it has its uses other than disaster and science.
But failing to plan for a disaster is just daft because we know enough about the world to know these kind of things happen fairly often. - brotherfranciz, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Awww, you missed a potential moment of epicness, you should have said: "Asteroid Apophis will strike the Earth on April 13, 2036 off the coast of Cost Rica. The stated reason for this project is a lie. Actually, this is all part of a plot to recover MEGATRON!!!"
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1They are more worried about crop extinctions due to other factors. I don't think so. I think they are constructing a "Noah's Ark," more likely due to an extinction event such as the impending Apophis cataclysm .
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1A Yellowstone eruption is not in the forecast. Apophis is.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1The chances are very high compared to most other asteroids, but still pretty remote.
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I mean no.
- Larke2000, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2i wonder if they included marijuana. gotta have something to get by with in the post-apocalyptic waste lands.
- inactive, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Yes, but do the cockroaches know how to garden?
- jstone, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Yellowstone is an active volcano. That means there is a good chance it will erupt some time in the future. But a huge volcano doesn't seem to scare as many people as the prospect of getting hit by a big space rock. Another reason not to be afraid of Apophis: NASA is already exploring methods of stopping asteroid impacts. This consists of sending a craft to the asteroid, and either slowing it down or speeding it up by a very small amount. This will actually cause it to miss by a fair distance. So, we'll be able to stop Apophis by the time you're claiming it will hit. There's no way for us to stop a volcano.
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