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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is hidden approximately 400 feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The doomsday vault that's supposed to store ...
An example of a DNA bank is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seedbank which is intended to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds (such as important crops) in case of their extinction. [ 3 ] The Memory of Mankind project involves engraving human knowledge on clay tablets and storing it in a salt mine. [ 4 ]
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...
The two men behind the so-called “Doomsday vault” holding 1.25 million seed samples ― seeds that can be used to rebuild much the world's food supply if catastrophe hits ― are this year’s ...
The facility is a large steel vault [7] located somewhere between 150 metres (490 ft) [5] and 300 metres (980 ft) below the ground or permafrost [7] [4] inside an abandoned coal mine (Store Norske Gruve 3) that reaches over 300 metres (980 ft) into the side of a mountain. [5] [8] [9] The facility is secured with a concrete wall and a steel gate.
On the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, just 800 miles from the North Pole, stands the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.It’s a super-secure facility that protects more than 1 million seed samples for ...
The vault supposedly contained Oreos wrapped in Mylar, powdered milk and the recipe for Oreo cookies. [7] The campaign was inspired by a tweet posted on October 3, 2020. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The company uploaded a series of scripted parody videos about the vault to YouTube , [ 10 ] and released social media content which built up to a mockumentary about ...
As the Doomsday Clock ticks even closer to midnight, Will Pritchard speaks to the people hoping to preserve centuries worth of music in a vault beneath the permafrost of Svalbard