Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts

Re:Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafro... by ajmurmann on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:30PM (#14379815)

The vault against the story the media try to tell is not for mankind coming back from some apocalyptic event. It works like a bank vault. Anyone who wants can pay them money to keep sets safe. The common use case is for protecting seeds of crops your country cares about in case some pest kills all the crops or similar. Not for Mad Max.

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Re:Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafro... by nonbel on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:09AM (#14381259)

Thanks, so then the first line is straight up fake news:

>"It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever."

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Re:Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafro... by Serubin on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:38AM (#14381300)

I think it's safe to assume that while it's not the immediate intention, it certainly can act as such in a pinch.

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Re:Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafro... by nonbel on Saturday May 20, 2017 @09:01AM (#14382179)

This story makes it sounds like it can't because the vault was not built to last even 10 years.

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