Sounds a lot like that so-so movie Titan AE. Minus the ginormous spaceship and the Earth blowing to bits.
Norway is to build a “doomsday vault” in a mountain close to the North Pole that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event of catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or rising sea levels, New Scientist says.
They are the precious food plants that have emerged from 10,000 years of selection by farmers.
The facility “would essentially be built to last forever,” according to a feasibility study.
It will be built deep in permafrost in the side of a sandstone mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) from the North Pole, the British weekly says in its next issue, out on Saturday.
(via warren ellis)
